WE WILL GIVE SUPER FALCONS A GOOD FIGHT TOMORROW SAYS COACH MPILA

WE WILL GIVE SUPER FALCONS A GOOD FIGHT TOMORROW - COACH MPILA

*By Favour Itua*

Equatorial Guinea Women team Coach, Mr. Jean-Paul Mpila says the team is out of the African Women Cup of Nations but will give the Super Falcons a good fight tomorrow.

Speaking at the Pre match Press Conference room of the Cape Coast Stadium Coach Mpila said he was going to play for pride and hope to get their first win of the competition against Nigeria.

"It's a privilege for me to be at the last but one Press Conference, we have our last match to play tomorrow and we are out of here. I will body say that we are out of the competition, but concerning tomorrow's match we are going to play for pride. As I always say we never give up until it's 90 minutes, we never declare the winner until the referee blows the whistle, so we are preparing for the match and we playing until it's the 90 minutes."

The Nzalang Nacionale coach who was recently appointed said he's not under pressure of loosing his job as his objective is to secure a better future of the team.

"My objective for this team is to secure the future of the team, you have seen the team perform this time compare to the old team, it's a two different thing at first we all knew Equatorial Guinea Women team to be one of the forces in Africa but now we see its not going as its suppose to be. one of my aims for this team is to bring back the glory the team had sometime ago"

Equatorial Guinea who have won the African Women Cup of Nations twice will be hoping to bank on the experience of Captain Genevova Anonman Nze, who has been in the team since 2008 to overcome the Super Falcons tomorrow at the Cape Coast Stadium.

The showdown between the Super Falcons of Nigeria and Nzalang Nacionale of Equatorial Guinea will take place tomorrow 5pm Nigeria time.

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