By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Following the dismal performance of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons, at the 12th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco, the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has directed its Technical and Development Sub-Committee to hold a meeting and make recommendations on how to reposition the team ...
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Costa Rica 2022: Nigeria aim to finish top, plays USA/Netherlands in quarter final
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s Falconets will try to finish top of Group C with another victory or a draw against hapless Canada when both countries clash in the last group match of the on-going 2022 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. The game billed for the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela, on Thursday, ...
Read More »Costa Rica 2022: Falconets qualify for quarter-final stage as Nigeria pip Korea Republic 1-0
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women Football Journalist The Falconets late Sunday night qualified for the quater-final round of the on-going FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica as Esther Onyenezide’s 83 minute goal assisted by forward Chiamaka Okwuchukwu ensured Nigeria beat Korea Republic 1-0 to secure six points in two games in Group C after recording a ...
Read More »Costa Rica 2022: How Falconets outfoxed opponents in Nigeria’s 1-0 win over France
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women Football JournaliWOMEN Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, Falconets in the early hours of Friday outfoxed their hard fighting opponents from France as the two-time runners-up overcame a torrential rain and an hour’s delay to beat Europe’s top team France 1-0 in the opening match of Group C of the 10th FIFA U-20 Women’s ...
Read More »FIFA U-20 WWC: Nigeria’s Falconets on the March Again
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Less than 24 hours to the start of the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, Falconets, have another opportunity to claim the coveted trophy for the first time in history. There is no better time for the highly successful U- 20 team to ...
Read More »UEFA Women’s Euro 2022: What Nigeria can learn from England
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist It took only 10 months for England senior women’s football team, Three Lionesses’ Head Coach, Sarina Petronella Wingman- Glotzbach to guide England to UEFA Euro Women’s Championship victory after several years of trophy drought in both men and women football competitions. For 56 years, England could only boast of the 1966 FIFA ...
Read More »Morocco 2022 Fallout: Before The Super Falcons Become Extinct
….The concluding part of yesterday’s piece By Harry Awurumibe, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Abuja ‘Zambia are also a rising power in Women’s Football. The point is that the days of our much vaunted boast that we ‘ set records and break them’ on the African continent is almost over. As good as it feels, that ceiling is way too low, and it is ...
Read More »Morocco 2022 Fallout: Before The Super Falcons Become Extinct
By Harry Awurumibe, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Abuja As Nigerians, especially women’s football followers struggle to come to terms with the dismal performance of the dethroned African Champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria at the just concluded 12th CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco, Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist, in this report x-rays an article written by veteran journalist, ...
Read More »AITEO Cup 2022: Imo Angels FC tests Nasarawa Amazons’ might in Ilorin today
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women Football Journalist In the tradition of Football Ads (FA) Cup competitions, Imo Angels Football Club of Owerri have vowed to give their opponents Nasarawa Amazons a run for their money when both clash today in Ilorin in the preliminary round of the annual AITEO Cup. The match billed for Ilorin Township Stadium in ...
Read More »REVEALED: How South Africa plotted Nigeria’s dethronement as African Champions, emerge new Queens
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Foot all Journalist It took two years and six months for South Africa Football Association (SAFA) to plot the dethronement of 9-time African Champions and defending champions of the just concluded 12th CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) tagged Morocco 2022. After several years of being in the shadow of Nigeria by suffering ...
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