By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The elimination of Nigerian women’s football league champions, Rivers Angels Football Club of Port Harcourt from the on-going maiden Confederation of Africa Football Women’s Champions League (CAFWCL) in Cairo, Egypt is a sad commentary on the current state of women’s football in Nigeria. Also, Rivers Angels’ exit at the group stage of ...
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Rivers Angels win first game, confirms exit from CAF Women’s Champions League
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football For the Nigerian league champions, Rivers Angels, it was a bittersweet victory for the team as the 4-0 thrashing of Vihiga Queens of Kenya in the last Group B tie on Friday could not prevent the club from crashing out of the on-going CAF Women’s Champions League in Egypt. Sportsrevelation had correctly reported ...
Read More »Rivers Angels suffer second defeat, crash out of CAF Women’s Champions League
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria’s Women’s Football League (NWFL) Champions, Rivers Angels of Port Harcourt, has mathematically crashed out of the maiden CAF TotalEnergies Women’s Champions League after losing 0-1to Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies of South Africa in the second Group B match played at El Salam Stadium in Egypt on Tuesday. The South Africa and COSAFA ...
Read More »CAFWCL: Ghana’s Hasaacas thrash AS Mandé 3-0, books semi final ticket
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Ghana’s women’s football league champions, Hasaacas Ladies have effortlessly won their second match as Evelyn Badu’s brace and Pepertual Agyekum’s goal saw them thrash AS Mandé of Mali 3-0 on Monday in the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Champions League in Egypt. Enterprising Badu opened the scoring in the 17th minute with a wonderful ...
Read More »CAF WCL: Morocco’s ASFAR thrash Rivers Angels 3-0, moves top of Group B
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist A hat-trick by Sanaa Mssuody was all that AS FAR of Morocco needed to defeat hapless Nigeria’s Rivers Angels FC in the first Group B match of the maiden CAF Women’s Champions League in Egypt on Saturday evening. The enterprising Mssoudy scored her first of the three goals in the encounter ...
Read More »Costa Rica qualifier: NFF invites Bokiri Nelly Ekeh, 29 Others as Falconets resume camping for Congo fixture
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has approved for Coach Christopher Danjuma the request to invite 31 players to the camp of Nigeria’s U-20 women’s football team, Falconets for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup third round fixture against Congo, with the first leg taking place in Brazzaville on December 5. Nigeria will ...
Read More »Ahead Morocco 2022: NFF rejigs Super Falcons’ technical crew, Madugu, Okon return as Asst. Coaches
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Apparently not satisfied with the recent unimpressive performances of the Super Falcons, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday made good its earlier pledge to “rejig” the technical staff by reabsorbing two former coaches, Justin Madugu and Edwin Okon into the technical crew of the senior women national squad. A press statement ...
Read More »Qatar 2022 Race: Rohr calls Ighalo, Ndidi, Musa 21, others for Liberia, Cape Verde
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor -in -Chief, Abuja Head Coach Gernot Rohr has recalled retired Odion Jude Ighalo and listed Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa; his deputy, William Ekong; defenders Kenneth Omeruo and Leon Balogun; midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Alex Iwobi; forwards Moses Simon and Victor Osumhen, as well as 16 others for Nigeria’s closing Group C games of the FIFA ...
Read More »Morocco 2022: Field now complete as CAF picks ‘Lovers Day’ for Second Round Matches
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist With 21 countries through to the second round of the TotalEnergies African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) Morocco 2022 qualifiers, the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) has picked February 14, St. Valentine’s Day (better known as Lovers Day), for the first leg of the final round matches of now expanded biennial Africa’s ...
Read More »Morocco 2022: South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda qualify for next round as Zambia, Zimbabwe reach second stage
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Highly improved South Africa’s Banyana Banyana have qualified for the second round of the TotalEnergies African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON), Morocco 2022 courtesy of 6-0 defeat of Mozambique in the return leg tie on the back of 7-0 win in the first leg to record a 13-0 aggregate score. The ...
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