Brazil: We have studies and analyses on Nnadozie we have passed to our strikers

Edson Alcantara, goalkeeper coach of the Brazilian Women’s National Team, says the team has conducted studies and analyses on the goalkeepers of their group phase foes as the Samba women get set to play Nigeria’s Super Falcons in their opening game of the Paris 2024 Olympics at the Stade de Bordeaux in Bordeaux on Thursday.

Alcantara says they have done extensive studies on Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie and have passed the information to their attackers.

‘We also have studies and analyses on the opposing goalkeepers, such as Nnadozie from Nigeria, Yamashita from Japan and Cata Coll from Spain, who we must face in the first round. In this case, we transmit the information to our outfield players, explaining the pros and cons of each of them’, says Edson Alcantara.

Nnadozie features for Paris FC in the French Division 1 Féminine and made history as the youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a FIFA Women’s World Cup match, which she achieved in 2019 against South Korea at the age of 18.

Brazil have met Nigeria twice at senior level with the Samba women winning both. The first meeting in 1999 at the quarterfinals of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in the USA with the Brazilians winning 4-3.

The two teams met again, nine years later, in a Group F game at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 with the Brazilians winning 3-1.