Wafcon group of four set for one more chomp at World Cup cherry
Albeit the main four of the TotalEnergies CAF Women's Africa Cup have been chosen, two additional African countries could join the semifinalists at the following year's Fifa Women's World Cup.
Botswana, Cameroon, Senegal and Tunisia are still holding nothing back with an opportunity to represent Africa at the 2023 World Cup, but they would need to sweep away eight countries from around the world in the inter-confederation playoffs scheduled for February one year from now.
In 2019, the world football administering body declared the expansion of the opposition from 24 to 32 teams for the 2023 version to advance the development of the ladies' down.
Aside from teams qualifying through their respective confederations, the inter-confederation season finisher has three additional posts accessible for the opposition which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
Africa has two spots in the opposition in which Panama, Haiti, Thailand and Chinese Taipei have previously equipped for the contest set for 18-23 February at the Waikato Stadium in Hamilton and North Harbor Stadium in Auckland.
The Mares, who are the main newcomers who progressed to the knockout stages of the Wafcon, will fight at a surprisingly high level when then they face second positioned African side, the Indomitable Lionesses.
Coach Gaoletlhoo Nkutlwisang was worried about some of the goals they yielded in the competition and says they should chip away at shielding set pieces.
"Our focus presently is to spur the players and right our mistakes going ahead. In the four matches that we played, we surrendered every one of our goals, aside from two, through set pieces, so we really want to investigate that," Nkutlwisang said.
The Lionesses, in the mean time, have resentment against the Cosafa district after Zambia denied them a spot in the Tokyo Olympics by holding them to a goalless attract the gathering stages of the competition to deny them a top finish in the gathering.
The Gabriel Zabo-drove side will need to use this chance to get one over a group from the SADC locale, however in particular make a third successive World Cup appearance.
The Teranga Lionesses will expect to return to winning ways in their match to the detriment of the Eagles of Carthage.
Senegal just won two matches in the gathering stages and the intercontinental rivalry is their opportunity to arrive at their absolute first World Cup.
The Tunisian side are also wanting to advance toward New Zealand to contend in the World Cup interestingly.
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