Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Determined to make the Super Falcons a stronger team that will once again return to the winning ways, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is set to announce the substantive head coach of the senior national women’s football team. Sportsrevelation can confirm that another European coach will lead the reigning African Women’s Cup of Nation (AWCON) champions to ...
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Chukwueze, Oshoala in, Ighalo, Rohr out of 2019 CAF Awards Final list
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Hope rises for a Nigerian player to return home next year with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Best Player Award as three Nigerian players have made the final list of the three nominees in their categories. Three-time winner of the CAF Women’s Player of the Year, Asisat Lamina Oshoala has made the top three list of ...
Read More »2020 FIFA U-20 World Cup final : Costa Rica, Panama are co-host
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja with agency report World soccer ruling body, FIFA has shunned Nigeria as it has instead awarded the hosting rights of the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup final to Costa Rica and Panama. According to a statement from FIFA made available to the press, the two nations have been given the hosting rights consideringtheir ability to stage ...
Read More »Eritrean rookies humble big boys in CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup, qualify for semi final
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. The Eritrean senior football team, The Red Sea Boys has qualified for the semi-final of the 2019 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup with most of the squad members not even born in 1994 when the country played in the semi final of the showpiece for the first. Not only have they shown that they are a team growing ...
Read More »NBA: Mavericks end Bucks’ 18-game winning streak, without Luka Doncic
Harry Awurumiube, AAbuja with agency report Even after losing a star player, Luka Doncic over the weekend as the Dallas Mavericks prepped for their turn in the tank against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night seemed, well, like a bridge too far. Bad enough that the Mavericks were headed into the shredder against the reigning Eastern Conference champions. With the ...
Read More »2020 FIFA U-20 WWC: Nigeria knows fate February 2, Falconets draw Burkina Faso
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Even without the host country for the 2020 FIFA Women’s World Cup determined by the world football governing body, Nigeria’s Falconets are set to take on Burkina Faso or Gambia in the first round of the African qualifiers which will begin in January with no fewer than 29 countries featuring in the preliminaries. African giant, Nigeria has ...
Read More »Platini: FIFA files court claims to retrieve $2m “disloyal” payment
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The world football ruling body FIFA has said that it had filed court claims in Switzerland to force former Vice President, Michel Platini to return two million Swiss francs ($2 million, 1.84 million euros) he received during ex- President Sepp Blatter’s reign at world football’s governing body. FIFA banned Platini in 2015 over the payment he received, ...
Read More »UEFA Champions League knockout phase: Liverpool draws Atletico, Real Madrid to face Manchester City
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The glamorous Union of European Football Association (UEFA) Champions League for the 2019/2020 season has entered its crucial knockout round with big European clubs pitched against each other after the draws for the Round of 16 was concluded today in Nyon, Switzerland. A careful look at the pairings showed that big clubs are meeting themselves early in ...
Read More »Ex- junior international footballer, Philip Osondu is dead
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Former junior international football sensation, Philip Osondu has been reported dead today in his base in Belgium. This sad news had spread like wide fire earlier today and by noon had gained traction with many in the media not too sure of this rather unfortunate development. But Osondu’s death has since been confirmed by a family friend ...
Read More »Super Eagles players, Osimhen, Dennis crash out of Champions Leaque football
Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. No member of Nigeria’s Super Eagles will play in the Europe’s most prestigious UEFA Champions Leaque knock out stage which starts in February 2020 following their clubs’ inability to qualify for the next round of the competition. As the group stage was concluded Wednesday night, none of the Super Eagles players’ teams made it out of their ...
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