Harry Awurumibe World football governing body, FIFA has released the match statistics of the just concluded FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France with referees dishing out a total of 124 Yellow Cards. According to the statistics released by FIFA Referees body, the referees were generous with card that no fewer than four players including Nigerian defender, Ngozi Ebere received ...

Nigeria and Algeria will clash for the 21st time at senior men’s level on Sunday night in an AFCON 2019 semi final encounter that promises lots of fireworks at the Cairo International Stadium.  Three –time champions Nigeria are looking for their fourth title since winning their first on home soil at the expense of Algeria in 1980, while the Algerians ...

Harry Awurumibe   Apparently for the only victory Nigeria got against South Korea at the just concluded FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France, the country has now moved up by two steps in the recently released FIFA Women’s Monthly Ranking which has the United States of America (USA) as the undisputed World Number One.. Nigeria moved from her pre-France ...

  While the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 concluded in style in Lyon on 7 July, the tournament will once again take centre stage in Milan on 22 September, with the hosting of the first‑ever FIFA Football Conference aimed at analysing the women’s showpiece. Technical directors and women’s national team coaches of FIFA’s member associations (MAs) will be invited ...

 Even before knowing the identity of their AFCON 2019 semi final opponent, Super Eagles’ technical adviser Gernot Rohr on Thursday morning charged his wards to be focused and fully committed to the task at hand as they countenance another tough session on Sunday night at the Cairo International Stadium.  “The next match in a championship is always the toughest, so ...

 The day after their exquisite and efficient performance against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa (conquerors of seven –time champions and host nation Egypt) that saw them reach the semi finals of AFCON 2019, the Super Eagles received pledges of more dollar rain from two of Africa’s richest businessmen.  On a visit to the team’s Le Meridien Cairo Airport hotel ...

By Harry Awurumibe   Determined to help Team Nigeria football squad to prepare adequately for the upcoming All Africa Game in Morocco next month the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has decided to provide the Falconets with theircamp needs instead of waiting indefinitely for the Federal Ministry of Sports to do the needful. Our checks at the Agura Hotel Abuja camp of ...

Harry Awurumibe An almost full-time goal scored by defender, William Troost-Ekong was all that Super Eagles of Nigeria needed to dump loquacious Bafana Bafana of South Africa out of the on-going Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) on 2-1 goals final score at Cairo International Stadium today. Ekong got to the end of the South African post to tap in after ...

Nigeria and South Africa are at each other’s jugular in what promises to be a frenetic Africa Cup of Nations quarter final attrition at the Cairo International Stadium on Wednesday night. The match kicks off at 9pm Egypt time (8pm Nigeria time). While the Super Eagles bundled out Cup holders and five –time winners Cameroon 3-2 in the Round of ...

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick has called on the Super Eagles to rise to the occasion and do the nation proud in Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter final battle with South Africa in Cairo. At a meeting with the players at breakfast on Tuesday, the man who is also chief organizer of the AFCON ...