BREAKING: Nigeria’s Falconets beat Cameroon, win African Games football gold
Nigeria and Cameroon were in the same group during the group stage and both sides settled for a 1-1 then.
In Thursday’s encounter it was another fiesty tie as the two teams battled each other for 120 minutes. But there was no goal to separate both sides. Chiamaka Nnadozie after her heroics at the World Cup with the Super Falcons in France proved to be a hero in Morocco as she saved three successive penalty kicks to help Nigeria to the gold.Nigeria’s previous gold medal in women football at the African Games was in 2003 and 2007. While Cameroon won once in 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique.
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