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By Johnny Edward.
Super Falcons coach, Randy Waldrum, is thrilled to have extended his contract with University of Pittsburgh women’s soccer by four years, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.
Waldrum who is the fourth head coach in Pitt women’s soccer history guided the Panthers to 45 wins since he took charge of the team in 2017.
“I am extremely excited about continuing my time at the University of Pittsburgh,” Waldrum said.
“I want to thank Heather Lyke and Chancellor Gallagher for believing in me and our staff. I also want to thank (Associate Athletic Director, Administration) Katie Stumpp for her support of our staff and our team.
“I’m looking forward to continuing our growth as a perennial national power along with associate head coach Ben Waldrum and assistant coaches Dustin Stein and Jesse Goleman.
“We have more work to do, but clearly, we are moving in a positive direction. Lastly, I want to thank our players, who have been nothing short of amazing.
“Since day one on campus, they have bought in to our philosophy and game model and the commitment it takes to be successful. We are all excited and looking forward to making Panther Nation proud.”
Waldrum who will lead the Falcons to the forthcoming Women’s World Cup finals coming up in Australia & New Zealand in the summer is optimistic of an impressive performance at the tournament.
The American tactician is full of optimism, and is confident that his team can go far in the global tournament, but insists they have to take it one step at a time to achieve greatness.
“The first target for us at the World Cup is to advance out of the group stage,” Waldrum told the thenff.com.
“Everyone wants to get to the knockout stage but obviously in order to achieve that, you have to advance out of the group and now, our focus is principally on doing that.”
Nigeria will tackle Olympic champions Canada, co-hosts Australia and Republic of Ireland in the group stage of the biggest Women’s World Cup finals ever, in group B of the tournament that begins on July 20.
The Falcons will be domiciled in Brisbane where they will play two of their three matches, with the other game in another Australian city, Melbourne.
Nigeria is in the elite group of only seven countries that have never failed to qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup since the competition was launched in China 32 years ago.