By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Apparently to show how important the upcoming match between the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) and Nigeria’s Super Falcons slated for June 16 at the brand new Q2 Stadium in Austin is, the organisers will use the occasion to honour veteran player, Carli Lloyds. According to the tournament programme obtained by Sportsrevelation, Lloyd who ...
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Organizers start countdown for US, Nigeria tie, Falcons camp open weekend in Texas
Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja With match tickets officially on sale in United States of America (USA) and across the world via online, the United States Soccer Federation (U.S.Soccer) has started the countdown for the 4-Nation women’s football tournament featuring USA, Nigeria, Portugal and Jamaica in Texas the month. The competition tagged ‘Summer Series’ will hold from June 10 to 16 ...
Read More »Super Falcons: Tickets go on sale for 4-Nation Tourney in USA
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The organizers of the prestigious 4-Nation Women’s Soccer Tournament featuring USA, Nigeria, Portugal and Jamaica, billed for Texas, United States of America (USA) have concluded plans to put tickets for all the matches on sale to the public from tomorrow (Saturday), May 29 at 10 a.m. CT through ussoccer.com. Although fans in the United States have ...
Read More »Covid-19 stops Super Falcons’ Basque 4-team invitational tournament trip
By Harry Awurumibe,Editor-in-Chief, Abuja The reigning African champions, Nigeria’s Super Falcons will not participate in the maiden Basque Four-team invitational tournament billed for Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain April 8 to 13, 2021 due to traveling restrictions occasioned by Covid-19 pandemic. Nigeria is one of the three countries invited last month by Basque Regional Football Association alongside Argentina ...
Read More »Onuachu breaks Beninese fans’ hearts, prove Rohr wrong with goal
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja For Paul (Eberechukwu) Onuachu, his 93rd minute goal which gave Nigeria’s Super Eagles all three points at stake in the Match Day 5 of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier tie against Benin Republic’s Squirrels on Saturday could not have come at a better time. The lanky KRC Genk of Belgium leaque topscorer headed ...
Read More »Nigeria on the March Again as Eagles tackle Benin Squirrels in Porto Novo
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Ordinarily, a battle of any kind including football matches between the ‘Giant of Africa’, Nigeria and her West African neighbours, Benin Republic formerly known as Dahomey, could be termed as “a walkover” because of the political and economic status of Nigeria as well as abundant sports talents the country can boast of. In African continent ...
Read More »Super Falcons star, Oshoala scores, make ESPN Top 50 Best Players list
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja On a day she scored FC Barcelona’s 100th goal in the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) during their 3-0 win over English side, Manchester City in the quarter-final first-leg tie played in Barcelona on Wednesday, Super Falcons star, Asisat Oshoala also made the list of ESPN’s world Top 50 players. Oshoala who scored the first ...
Read More »New CAF General Secretary, Veron accepts appointment, vow to uplift African football
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Less than one day after he was appointed the substantive General Secretary of the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF), Mr. Veron Mosengo-Omba has graciously accepted the offer just as he has promised to work assiduously with all the stakeholders to uplift African football. Mosengo-Omba, the Chief Officer of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) ...
Read More »Outrage as Rohr excludes topscorer, Onuachu, invite ‘clubless’ Musa, 23 others for Squirrels, Crocodile ties
Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief, Abuja Surprise and outright criticisms have trailed Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr exclusion of Belgium leaque topscorer, Paul Onuachu but has included unattached Captain Ahmed Musa, deputy Captain William Ekong in a 24-man list for this month’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying battles with Benin Republic and Lesotho. Other noteable names in the list ...
Read More »Amaju Pinnick: FIFA Council Seat As Nigeria’s Project
By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja For Nigeria, it has been a season of good fortunes at the world stage as some of her citizens are now occupying important international post both at the Sub-regional, Continental and World levels as the recent selection of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as new Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO) has shown. The country may likely ...
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