Banyana Banyana of South Africa head coach, Desiree Ellis is delighted to have skilled trio, Bambanani Mbane, Refiloe Jane and Sibulele Holweni again within the squad for the crunch 2024 Olympic Video games qualifier towards the Tremendous Falcons of Nigeria.
The trio are making a return to the squad for the reason that 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Mbane, Jane and Holweni are a part of the 24-player squad that can face the Tremendous Falcons within the two-legged contest.
Ellis claimed their return is a well timed increase for her workforce’s need to qualify for the Paris 2024.
“There may be one factor that you may by no means purchase and that’s expertise,” he mentioned, including that the workforce additionally has just a few gifted younger gamers,” Ellis mentioned after naming her squad.
“Expertise helps rather a lot when it provides worth to the workforce. They’ve been there in robust conditions and when issues weren’t okay the place they stood as much as be counted. We even have the passion of the youth and we wanted to get that blend proper.
“Now we have younger gamers like Karabo Dhlamini, Nthabiseng Majiya, Fikile Magama, Sinoxolo and Noxolo Cesane, these gamers are coming via and for us, you will need to get that blend of youth and expertise proper.
Nigeria will host the primary leg on the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja on Friday.
The return leg will happen on the Loftus Stadium, Pretoria on Tuesday, April 9.
The winner of this tie will be part of Brazil, Japan and Spain in Group C on the Olympic Video games in Paris in July and August.
