Football Kenya Federation Vice-President, Doris Petra, is optimistic Harambee Starlets will give a good account of themselves at the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations (Awcon) finals in Cameroon despite landing a tough group.
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Black Queens in Group B alongside Nigeria, Mali and Kenya. “I remember when the Falcons team was newly established, our first game in the qualification series for the 1991 Fifa Women’s World Cup was against Ghana”, Omagbemi told NFF website.
They will play Tanzania in the final of the Cecafa Women’s Championship on Tuesday.
“Surely, we will take the games against all three countries as seriously as we have been doing in the past”.
“We are in a very challenging group, but you can not underrate any of the teams participating”.
Florence Omagbemi’s women are the reigning champions and will be gunning for a record eighth African women title when the competition starts.
“Coming back to our group, we just have to keep a level head”.
“We are planning to have friendlies with African teams and those from beyond”, revealed the former FKF Leagues and Competitions Coordinator. We are the champions of Africa.
“If we work very hard we should be able to defend the title successfully”.
She said: “This is year 2016. A number of teams on the African continent have improved and we can not afford to look down on any team”, she continued.
South Africa and Zimbabwe, who both played at the Rio Olympics, complete the teams in the group.
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Since then the Indomitable Lionesses have gained in experience with a first ever appearance at the World Cup as they reached the last 16 in Canada previous year.
