By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria’s women’s football league champions, Rivers Angels Football Club have arrived Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, venue of the maiden CAF Women’s Champions League West Africa Zone B tournament holding from June 24 to August 5, 2021. A contingent of 56 made up of players, coaching crew, backroom staff and Rivers states government officials ...
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Tokyo 2020: Sweden wallop World Champs, US 3 nil to end 44-match unbeaten record
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The greatest surprise of the opening day of Tokyo Olympics was the 3-0 massacre of reigning FIFA Women’s World Cup Champions, United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) by Sweden on Wednesday as women’s football took the center stage in Japan. For the Team USA, it was a day the players will live to regret as ...
Read More »Tokyo 2020: Netherlands go goals crazy, thrash Zambia 10-3
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No 1 Women’s Football Journalist Expectedly, Africa’s sole representative at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Zambia suffered a crushing defeat in the hands of the Dutch as the Zambians were walloped 10-3 by Netherlands in their Group F opening match as women’s football took the center stage. Infact, the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup beaten finalist, Netherlands ...
Read More »D’Tigers, D’Tigress final squads for Tokyo 2020 Olympics complete
Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Expectedly, Coaches of Nigeria’s senior Basketball teams, D’Tigers and D’Tigress have released their final 12-man rosters, ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After one month of close camping in Sacramento and Las Vegas, United States of America (USA), D’Tigers’ American Head Coach, Mike Brown, in his wisdom picked no fewer than eight National Basketball Association ...
Read More »Tokyo 2020: Fireworks as Japan, Canada kick start football event Wednesday
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau With Nigeria’s men and women football teams unable to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics football event, four African countries are in the race for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals on display at the Summer Games which unofficially starts in Tokyo on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 with Japan taking on Canada in the ...
Read More »Five home-based Falcons, officials arrive Austria camp as Waldrum invite 26
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Five home-based Super Falcons out of the 26 invited by Coach Randy Waldrum and a handful of backroom staff who left Lagos aboard Ethiopian Airlines arrived Austrian capital, Vienna on Thursday evening to begin a week plus one day training camp as part of the team’s elaborate preparations for both the Aisha ...
Read More »CAF WCL: Officials of WAFU-B tourney clarify postponement as Rivers Angels depart July 22
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The organizers of the forthcoming CAF Women’s Champions League West African qualifying competition, WAFU-B Secretariat in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, has officially informed Member Associations (MA) about the new date of the tournament. According to a letter to Member Associations signed by Boureima Balima, Executive Director, WAFU-B, obtained by Sportsrevelation, the competition will now ...
Read More »Pre-season, club duties may affect Super Falcons Austria camping
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The proposed Austria camping of the Super Falcons may witness the absence of some key players again as the European clubs involved in pre-season summer training may refuse to release their players for national duty. Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed a week-long training camp in Austria from July 16 to 24, ...
Read More »Rivers Angels, Ghana Hasaacas clash in WAFU Group B opener July 17
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL) Champions, Rivers Angels and Hasaacas Ladies of Ghana will clash in the opening day of the 2021 CAF Women’s Champions League WAFU-B mini tournament slated for Stade Champroux in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on 17, 2021. The Pride of Rivers as the club is known in Nigeria ...
Read More »CAF WCL: Rivers Angels, Hasaacas, Niger Police in Group B as WAFU-B tourney kick off July 17
By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL) Champions, Rivers Angels has been drawn in Group B with Ghana’s Hasaacas Ladies and Police Sports Association FC from Niger Republic, in the 2021 CAF Women’s Champions League WAFU-B mini tournament billed for Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from July 17 to 30, 2021. Also, Group A comprises Ivoirein women’s ...
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