Desire Oparanoize has spoken bitterly about the current situation of the country senior women's national football side, the Super Falcons.

Oparanoize is frustrated about the lack of action for the Falcons since emerging champions of the Africa Women's Cup of Nations last year in Cameroon.

The 23 years old Guingamp star is worried about the team's preparedness ahead of next year's qualifiers for the AWCON in Ghana, which also determines the countries that will represent the continent at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.

"It's quite pathetic because the Nations Cup and the World Cup is round the corner and all the other African teams are stepping up their preparations playing friendly games," she said on BBC Sports

"But we as the defending champions have not really done anything to really show we want to stay up there.

"There have been no matches there hasn't been any form of regrouping, no games played - nothing at all.

She added: "I am really concerned because to win the tournament you have to set up a good preparation, you have to recruit the girls, you have to make plans for camps.

"We have been sleeping all this while and other teams have been away doing all the necessary and doing what they should do. So I am very worried that next year's Nations Cup is going to be very tough for us."

The former Delta Queens player also complained about the lack of communication between the ladies and the NFF following the appointment of a foreign coach.

"For me personally I got to know about the [new coach's appointment] on the internet I wasn't informed by any member of the federation.

"The only person I got to discuss a bit about it was the team captain and she also read about it on the internet.

"I don't know the NFF's plans. The communication is not just there," she concluded.


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