The Super Falcons best finish at the FIFA Women’s
World Cup is a quarter-final finish.
Speaking during a parley with the media at the
team’s camp, Pennsylvania Avenue Hotel, Utako, the Swede insists that having
surpassed the target he set for the team at the 2018 Women Africa Cup of
Nations in Ghana by winning the title, he also hopes the team will excel in
France
“When I arrived in Nigeria, I said that first thing we
needed to qualify for the World Cup at the AFCON, and then try to win it, and
we eventually did both,” Dennerby said.
“For France, when you set a target, you have to be
honest and set a target that everyone can meet. So far, the only target we have
set is that we want to be the very best Nigerian team that has ever been to the
World Cup. That is our target.”
Dennerby also lauds the Nigeria Football Federation
for organizing various pre-World Cup camps for the nine-time African champions
in preparation for the France 2019 World Cup in June and also shares his
experience from the camps.
“I am really happy that the NFF helped us with the
camps and the tournaments. We have had China camp, we had Cyprus camp, we go to
Spain next week and we also have the final camp in Austria,” he stated.
“One experience from our game against Belgium in
Cyprus is that we will not play a lower defence line.”
Dennerby however notes that it is too early to
determine how many home –based professionals will be in the World Cup team.
“It is hard to say because it is still three and
half months away,” he explains.
