By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief, Abuja  Nigeria’s U-23 national team, Olympic Eagles on Thursday left Nigeria for Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanzania for the first leg of the qualifying match for the 2023 U-23 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) which will serve as qualifiers for the 2024 Olympic Games football event.   This is even as Head Coach, Salisu Yusuf has expressed his ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Few days to the draw for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, former African Champions,  Super Falcons risk facing tough opponents in the group stage after series of bad results in international matches have conspired to lump Nigeria in Pot 4 amongst the weakest teams in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, the Flamingos  on Monday edged out Chile to the quarterfinals ticket with a 2-1 victory in their FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup last group match in Bhubaneswar, India.   Flamingos’ forward Blessing Emmanuel put Nigeria ahead in just 4th minute of the important match which will determine the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist  Apparently to clear any doubts of the team’s ability to compete after suffering a 1-2 loss in the opening match against Germany, Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team,  Flamingos on Friday in Goa, India, bounced back to the winning ways with a 4-0 thrashing of hapless New Zealand U-17 women’s football side. ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist  Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team, Flamingos on Tuesday started their campaign in the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women’s  World Cup final in India on a wrong footing, losing 2-1 to their opponents, Germany despite going in front in the 30th minute courtesy of a well taken free-kick on the edge of the penalty ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The visiting Maureen Mmadu Kiddies Academy team last night  defeated  Anwar Almostakbal Sporting Club of  Casablanca 2-0 to end their 10-day training tour of Morocco on a high note.   Damilola Odebode scored the first goal in the 25 minutes while Juliet Eghbuna,  captain of the team scored the second goal in the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist   For ardent followers of women’s footballl in Nigeria, it was not a big surprise that the Super Falcons of Nigeria suffered yet another defeat in international friendly match, this time against Japan in Kobe in the early hours of Friday.   Two second-half goals by nimble-footed  forward, Mina Tanaka condemned the Super ...

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By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist  Maureen Mmadu Kiddies Academy girls yesterday fell 7-0 to the superior firepower of more matured Sporting Club Casablanca women’s team in their third match in the tour of Morocco.    The visiting Nigeria academy club which played out a 2-2 draw on Wednesday with Hilal Temara Ladies of Casablanca could not replicate the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s  No.1 Women Football Journalist  Super Falcons’ dwindling fortunes have showed no signs of abating as Mina Tanaka’s two quick second half goals gifted Japan a 2-0 victory over the struggling Nigerian senior women’s football team in an international friendly match in the Japanese city of Kobe early Thursday morning.    The match against Japan which took place at ...