{"id":6898,"date":"2022-04-13T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6898"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:46:18","slug":"falcons-will-be-dangerous-at-wafcon-waldrum-expresses-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6898","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Will Be Dangerous At WAFCON, Waldrum Expresses Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Super Falcons coach, Randy Waldrum has described the 2-2 draw against Olympic champions, Canada as a big boost for the confidence of his players as they head into the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations billed for Morocco from July 2 to 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Falcons after losing 2-0 in the first leg of their friendly on Sunday in Vancouver, bounced back with an improved performance to hold their hosts to a 2-2 draw on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Falcons Ifeoma Onumonu gave the African champions the lead in the fifth minute, while Rasheedat Ajibade scored the second in the 53rd minute. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Canada\u2019s Christine Sinclair was on target in the 49th minute while Shelina Zadorski ensured the Olympic champions were not beaten at home, grabbing the equaliser in the 88th minute at the Starlight Stadium, Langford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An impressed Waldrum while speaking after the encounter, said the result was good for his team\u2019s confidence, adding that getting such a result is huge for the team and obviously for the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe all understand how the game went, they had a lot of opportunities and we worked really hard and stayed better defensively than the first game we played.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI thought we did better offensively and created more chances in this game so I\u2019m really proud of the result and I also want to thank Canada, they have been a gracious,\u201d Waldrum said at the post-match conference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons coach, Randy Waldrum has described the 2-2 draw against Olympic champions, Canada as a big boost for the confidence of his players as they head into the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations billed for Morocco from July 2 to 23. The Falcons after losing 2-0 in the first leg of their friendly on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[360,1963,4113,4112],"class_list":["post-6898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-canada","tag-falcons","tag-randy-waldrum","tag-wafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}