FIFA Women's World Cup Nigeria Unlucky against Champions USA,Sanusi !

Sanusi Mohammed General Scribe NFF

With Nigeria’s group  D opponents United State of America  eventually carting the coveted Trophy at the  just concluded  7^th FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada at the expense of defending champions Japan who they beat in the final,general secretary of Nigeria Football Federation ,Dr.Sanusi Mohammed told www.amarignis.blogspot.com that the “SuperFalcons” were unlucky not to advance from their group.

“We were just not fortunate against the Americans in that match because it was our best game at the championship, I thought we played better against Sweden in that paulsating opener after coming back to level 3-3,no! but playing against the Americans our girls were highly tactical and deserved abetter result”

“We had beaten the defending champions Japan who lost 2-3 to USA in a friendly, our girls would not go down with such a margin,Sanusi boasted.

Sweden ,Australia,USA,and Nigeria were all in a grouped described as the group of death,Australia and USA eventually qualified from the group.

The Falcons of Nigeria played 3-3 against Sweden in their opener, lost 0-2 to Australia ,and 0-1 to the US

Dr Sanusi a teacher turned sports administrator wants Nigeria to still believe in the Falcons despite not making it out of the group stage “We have to still count on those girls ,we parade quality players  comparatively speaking that can beat the world at any time,it is only a matter of time and Nigerian girls will rule the world at the senior stage”

Nigeria was making its 7^th appearance at the World quadrennial event which started in 1991

The United States' win over Japan in the Women's World Cup final was the most viewed soccer game in the history of American television.

The 5-2 victory Sunday gave the Americans a record third title.Carli Lloyd scored an incredible 13-minute hat-trick as the United States thrashed Japan to win their third Women's World Cup title.

The game was seen by 26.7 million viewers. Fox said Monday its English-language coverage was seen by an average of 25.4 million and NBC's Telemundo said its telecast averaged 1.27 million.

Viewership topped the previous mark of 26.5 million set when Germany beat Argentina in last year's men's World Cup final. That was seen by 17.3 million on ABC and 9.2 million on Spanish-language Univision.