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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Head Coach Patrick Bassey has called 23 players to the camp of Nigeria’s U15 boys, also known as Future Eagles, ahead of this month’s FIFA U15 Youth World Cup and Festival taking place in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. The tournament is taking place 22nd – 31st October. The players have been instructed to report ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Nigeria’s Super Falcons expect to seal a place in the third of the five-round African qualification series for the 2028 Olympics Women’s Football Tournament when they confront Comoros senior women national team for the second time in four days on Tuesday. Goals by defender Michelle Alozie and forward Uchenna Kanu earned the 10-time African champions a ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Expectedly, Kenya’s Harambee Starlets have completed a dominant 11–0 victory over Seychelles today at the Ulinzi Sports Complex in Nairobi, sealing a massive 22–0 aggregate win to punch their ticket to the third round. Kenya had last week scored an incredible 11 goals against Seychelles in the first leg match at Nyayo ...

By Harry Aurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Moroccan referee Driss Lamghaidar and his officiating team has admitted their error in allowing for extra time and penalties in Saturday’s 2026 CAF Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between Nigeria and Ghana in Kaduna.  Dignitaries and spectators in the stands were befuddled when Lamghaidar and his assistants ordered for extra time, and later ...

By Hadrry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief The Acting General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation, Dr Emmanuel Ikpeme, has expressed confidence that the Beach Soccer National Team, Sand Eagles, will secure qualification for the 2026 Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations (BSAFCON), despite their 3-3 draw with Ghana’s Black Sharks in the first leg played in Kaduna on Saturday. Ikpeme acknowledged that Nigeria’s ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist With the Los Angeles Olympic Games Women’s Football Tournament African Qualifiers Second Round return matches only two days away, two African women’s football heavyweights Zambia and Tunisia are in the verge of being eliminated from the qualifiers except they bounce back to the winning ways in their next games. This is even ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1  Women Football Journalist After the completion of the Los Angeles Olympic Games Women’s Football Tournament African Qualifiers Second Round First-Leg matches on Friday, Algeria and Kenya may have qualified for the third round of the competition even before playing their return leg of the second round matches next week. Also on the cusp of reaching ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Two second half goals scored by ace defender Michelle Alozie (47′) and fast-paced attacker Uchenna Kanu (59′) were all the Super Falcons needed to overpower stubborn Comoros 2 -0 on Friday at Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne, Nigeria in the first leg of the double-header of the second round of the Los Angeles ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist                                                                                   Kenya’s senior women’s football team, the Harambee Starlets, went goals-crazy by walloping ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Ghana’s Black Queens on Thursday defeated Mauritius 3–0 away at the Cote d’Or National Sports Complex in the first leg of the second round of the African qualifiers for the Los Angeles 2028 Women’s Olympic Games Women’s Football Tournament. Goals from Abigail Kim, Alice Kusi, and Benedicte Simon gave the Ghanaians a comfortable ...