By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup winner and incumbent President of United States Soccer Federation (USSF), Cindy Marie Parlow Cone has been re-elected for a new term of four years as she fended off a challenge from her predecessor, Carlos Cordeiro. Cone won 52.9% of the weighted vote from the USSF’s National Council, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Three goals scored by Blessing Emmanuel (36′), Oluwatunmininu Adebayo (66′) and Taiwo Ajakaiye (76′) ensured that Nigeria’s U-17 women’s team, Flamingos thrashed host, DR Congo’s U-17 team 3-0 at their backyard in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 African qualifiers second round first leg match on Sunday. The match played ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Augustine Eguavoen has called up Captain Ahmed Musa, deputy captain William Ekong, midfielder Wifred Ndidi and forwards Moses Simon and Kelechi Iheanacho in a Super Eagles’ provisional list of 32 for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 play-off round against the Black Stars of Ghana. Also called up are goalkeepers Maduka ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football journalist After a first round that saw the qualification of Eritrea, Kenya, DR Congo, Senegal and Benin following the withdrawal of their respective opponents, the second qualifying round for the U-17 Women’s World Cup will take place during the weekends of March 4-6 and March 18-20, 2022. Also, Nigeria’s Flamingos are already in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editior-in-Chief, Abuja Barely three weeks to the first leg of the final round of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier matches involving ten countries still in the race for the five tickets to represent Africa, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the official dates and venues of the two legged matches including the tie between ...

The leadership of Female Football Interest Group (FFIG) has commended the senior women’s football team, Super Falcons for booking a ticket for the upcoming Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) billed for Morocco in July. The 11-time Champions of Africa since 1991, defeated Les Femelles Elephantes (Lady Elephants) of Cote d’Ivoire 2-0 in Abuja and 1-0 in Abidjan to qualify ...