The hard focus of the Nigeria Football Federation in the year 2020 will be on the various qualifying matches for major competitions as well as youth and grassroots development programs, according to President of the NFF, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick. Pinnick made it known on Tuesday that the football –governing body will set much store by the qualifying campaigns of ...
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Dukku Warriors edge Malami FC, lift Dr. Sanusi Cup
Dukku Warriors edged Abubakar Malami FC in the championship match of the seventh edition of Dr. Mohammed Sanusi State Super League Finals staged at the Dukku Barracks football ground last weekend. Football stakeholders from far and near gathered in Birnin Kebbi for the finals of the annual competition which also guarantees the two finalists slots in the Division Three of ...
Read More »Abia Warriors’ boss, Inyama in Cloud 7, hail team’s 3-0 win
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The chairman of Abia Warrios football club of Umuahia, Pastor Emeka Inyama has described his team’s impressive 3-0 hammering of Plateau United of Jos in the weekend’s Nigeria Professional Football Leaque (NPFL) as the best Christmas gift he received this yuletide. Speaking exclusively to sportsrevelation from his country-home in Umunwanwa, Umuahia in Abia State today, Inyama revealed ...
Read More »2019: A year to remember for Qatar football fans
Harry Awurumibe with agency report The 2022 World Cup host, Qatar are the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking highest risers in 2019 just as the team was crowned AFC Asian Cup champions for the first time. Now focused on the 2022 FIFA World Cup on home soil, Qatar is accustomed to organising global sporting competitions with the latest of them being the ...
Read More »Again, European coach for Super Falcons
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Determined to make the Super Falcons a stronger team that will once again return to the winning ways, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is set to announce the substantive head coach of the senior national women’s football team. Sportsrevelation can confirm that another European coach will lead the reigning African Women’s Cup of Nation (AWCON) champions to ...
Read More »Chukwueze, Oshoala in, Ighalo, Rohr out of 2019 CAF Awards Final list
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Hope rises for a Nigerian player to return home next year with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Best Player Award as three Nigerian players have made the final list of the three nominees in their categories. Three-time winner of the CAF Women’s Player of the Year, Asisat Lamina Oshoala has made the top three list of ...
Read More »2020 FIFA U-20 World Cup final : Costa Rica, Panama are co-host
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja with agency report World soccer ruling body, FIFA has shunned Nigeria as it has instead awarded the hosting rights of the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup final to Costa Rica and Panama. According to a statement from FIFA made available to the press, the two nations have been given the hosting rights consideringtheir ability to stage ...
Read More »Eritrean rookies humble big boys in CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup, qualify for semi final
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. The Eritrean senior football team, The Red Sea Boys has qualified for the semi-final of the 2019 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup with most of the squad members not even born in 1994 when the country played in the semi final of the showpiece for the first. Not only have they shown that they are a team growing ...
Read More »NBA: Mavericks end Bucks’ 18-game winning streak, without Luka Doncic
Harry Awurumiube, AAbuja with agency report Even after losing a star player, Luka Doncic over the weekend as the Dallas Mavericks prepped for their turn in the tank against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night seemed, well, like a bridge too far. Bad enough that the Mavericks were headed into the shredder against the reigning Eastern Conference champions. With the ...
Read More »2020 FIFA U-20 WWC: Nigeria knows fate February 2, Falconets draw Burkina Faso
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Even without the host country for the 2020 FIFA Women’s World Cup determined by the world football governing body, Nigeria’s Falconets are set to take on Burkina Faso or Gambia in the first round of the African qualifiers which will begin in January with no fewer than 29 countries featuring in the preliminaries. African giant, Nigeria has ...
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