Harry Awurumibe A 3rd minute goal when the game was still young was all that the Super Eagles of Nigeria needed to defeat the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia 1-0 at Al Salaam Stadium in Cairo, Egypt to finish in the third place and also claim the Bronze medal in the AFCON 2019 edition. Nigeria could have scored more goals as ...
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At last, CAF expands AWCON to 12 team event, adopts one-leg final for Champions League
By Harry Awurumibe The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has expanded the African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) from eight to 12 teams starting from the 2020 tournament. This piece of information was dropped earlier today via the social media by no less a person than the CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad in Cairo, Egypt. “With @CAF_Online’s #exco, we took a great ...
Read More »CAF Congress holds Thursday, tough decisions expected
Harry Awurumibe Africa’s football governing body, CAF is set to have a much-anticipated Congress on Thursday, where some far-reaching decisions including the idea to cede control of the body to FIFA are likely to dominate discussions. The meeting to be held in Egypt’s capital, Cairo is the first by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) 54-member associations since allegations of ...
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