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 ...

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 ...

It is a feisty confrontation of Eagles as Nigeria and Tunisia file out at the Al Salam Stadium in Cairo on Wednesday for the third place match of the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations finals.  Otherwise called the ‘losers’ final’, the third place match traditionally awards bronze medals to the winning team. Both Nigeria and Tunisia must recover adequately and ...

Harry Awurumibe who was in France The world may have seen the last of some of the super stars of women’s football at the just concluded 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final even as France 2019 may well prove to be the World Cup swansong for some of the world’s finest players like Megan Rapinoe of United States and Brazil’s ...

Harry Awurumibe Former Super Falcons Head Coach, Alhaji Ismaila Mabo has described the Round of 16 exit of Nigeria in the just concluded 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France as a big failure against the backdrop of the adequate preparations given to the team by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) ahead of the competition. In an exclusive chat ...

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, alongside his 2nd Vice President, Shehu Dikko and General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi were on Monday at the Le Meridien Cairo Airport hotel camp of the Super Eagles to ginger the players ahead of Wednesday’s third place match against Tunisia.  A last-gasp goal by Riyad Mahrez took Algeria to their ...

Head of the Federal Government delegation to the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, Distinguished Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan (President of the Senate of the Federal Republic) has given the Super Eagles a pat on the back for their outing against Algeria on Sunday, while charging them to go all out against Tunisia on Wednesday to win the bronze ...

Riyad Mahrez’s goal from a free-kick at the edge of the box, with seconds left to play, condemned Nigeria to a 2-1 defeat and steered Algeria to their first Africa Cup of Nations Final match in 29 years. It was 1-1 deep into added time of the second semi final encounter of the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations finals at ...

Harry Awurumibe Nigeria’s 2-1 defeat by Algeria in the semi-final tie of the on-going Africa Cup of Nations AFCON) Egypt 2019 is still hurting most residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with most of the fans blaming the entire team for the painful loss. An added time free kick off the boot of Riyad Mahrez saw the ball sail ...

Harry Awurumibe With the United States of America (USA) winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy for the 4th time at the just concluded global football tournament in France and her players clearing all but two individual awards, Nigeria has rather made the list of indiscipline teams of the competition. Nigeria’s Super Falcons have been adjudged the second most indiscipline ...