Harry Awurumibe, Abuja With three days to the end of one week deadline set by the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to conclude the contract renewal of the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, there is a strong indication that the deal will be sealed earlier than envisaged. This much was disclosed today by ...
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French star player, Henry is No. 2 world highest earner
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The captain of France national women’s football team, Amandine Henry is the second highest earning player in the world. Les Bleues star who plays her club football with Olympique Lyon Feminine 1 is in the list of top highest-paid female soccer players of 2019/2020 along with their annual income even as no Nigerian female footballer at home ...
Read More »Super Eagles job: NFF, Rohr may seal deal Saturday
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Apparently to beat the deadline of the expiration of the first contract of the Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, the Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has mandated the General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi to liaise with the Franco German with a view to concluding all matters around Mr. Rohr’s new contract within the next one ...
Read More »Revealed: Highest paid women’s footballer, Ada Hegerberg earns 326 times less than Messi
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja With a United States (US) court throwing out the case filed by the US National Women’s Team asking for Equal Pay with their male counterpart, the dreams of many female players to be valued the same with the male players may not see the light of the day. Sportsrevelation can exclusively report that even the Ballon ...
Read More »2023 Women’s World Cup host to emerge next month, says FIFA
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The world football governing body, Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) says the host(s) of the 2023 Women’s World Cup will be announced on June 25, 2020 by the FIFA Council. According to a statement from the body on Friday, the four bidding member associations will know their fate after the FIFA Council meeting to be held ...
Read More »FIFA U-17 World Cup: India agrees on 2021 new date
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The All India Football Federation (AIFF) and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup on Tuesday confirmed their readiness to host which the world football ruling body has shifted to now hold from February 17 to March 7, 2021. The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup had to be postponed due ...
Read More »Why FIFA shift U-20, U-17 Women’s World Cup to 2021
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Nigeria’s junior women’s football teams, Falconets and Flamingos will not attended the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) tournaments this year after all as the U-20 and U-17 Women’s World Cup have been shifted from 2020 to 2012. The world football governing body on Tuesday announced the postponement of the two age-grade competition from this year ...
Read More »Covid-19: NFF to cut down on competitions to attend, FIFA Goal Project gets new pitch
The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation met via video conferencing on Friday (April 24, 2020) to deliberate on important issues in Nigerian Football and resolved as follows: 1. The Executive Committee praised the Federal Government on the various policies, strategies and methods that have been put in place to combat the coronavirus pandemic ...
Read More »Covid-19: Nigeria, Ghana, USA, 208 FAs share $150m FIFA palliatives
Harry Awurumibe with agency report Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ghana Ghana Football Association and 209 other Football Federations across the world will receive a Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic palliative in the sum of $150m from the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) as part of its plan to use football to fight the deadly disease. The world football governing body ...
Read More »Covid-19: China- based Falcons forward, Ihezuo missing in action
Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau China- based Super Falcons forward, Chinwendu Veronica Ihezuo is missing football action no thanks to the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus pandemic which forced the world to shut down everyday businesses including football. The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup ‘Azerbaijan 2012’ Silver Boot Winner told Sportsrevelation exclusively today that she is missing football action ...
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