Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. African football stars could not shine brightly in this year’s edition of the annual The Best FIFA Football Awards held in Milan, Italy. The world waited with great anticipation till Monday night for the unveiling of the winners in the various categories of the 2019 The Best FIFA Football Awards. After the event which was watched by ...

Super Eagles B have apologised to Nigerians for the poor result they posted against Togo on Sunday in an African Nations Championship qualifying match. The players led by Eagles A goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa apologized to Nigerians for the shameful outing and promised to repay the Sparrow Hawks in bigger coins in the second leg and claim the Cameroon 2020 ticket. ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The United States’ duo of Coach Jill Ellis and co-captain, Megan Rapinoe this evening in Milan, Italy won the prestigious Best FIFA Women’s Coach and the FIFA Best Female Player Awards. Team USA veteran midfielder, Kelly O’Hara; goalpoacher, Alex Morgan, defence ace Joy Lavelle and Rapinoe also made the list of the 2019 FIFA Women’s Best XI. ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Former African Women’s Best Footballer of the Year and Nigeria international, Asisat Lamina Oshoala grabbed a brace as FC Barcelona Feminine continued their rampant start to the Spanish Women’s Primera Division season by thrashing champions Atletico Madrid 6-1 earlier today (Saturday). This will definitely be a bad news for Nigeria’s next opponents in the 3rd Round of ...

The Nigerian Football Federation is delighted to announce it has agreed a multi-year partnership with top Italian football club, AS Roma, The partnership, which was unveiled  on Friday in Abuja, will see the NFF and Roma collaborate  together on and off the pitch, with one long term objective being for the club to help further grow and improve all levels of football in Nigeria. Under the terms of the understanding, the two parties will share football, business and media ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. The Honourable Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr. Sunday Akin Dare on Friday met with the Members of Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) led by Mr. Melvin Amaju Pinnick and the General Secretary, Dr, Mohammed Sanusi. The crucial meeting which was at instance of the minister, was to interface with the NFF towards ...

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, His Excellency Joseph Olusola Iji today (Friday) made a passionate win-the-match plea to the Home-based Senior National Team, Super Eagles B who arrived in Lome, Togo by mid-day of the same day. The Eagles will take on the Sparrow Hawks of Togo on Sunday in a first leg, second round qualifying match of ...

Harry Awurumibe,  Abuja. Barcelona’s 16-year-old starlet Ansu Fati was granted Spanish citizenship earlier today (Friday), a government spokeswoman said, meaning he will be able to represent Spain at international level. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet approved a request made by the justice minister to give the Guinea-Bissau-born forward Spanish citizenship during its weekly meeting, the spokeswoman said. Fati was ...

Harry Awurumibe. A FIFA delegation visited Tehran on Friday to discuss allowing female spectators into football matches, the official news agency IRNA reported, days after a public row over a female fan who killed herself. “The FIFA delegation first visited the sports ministry and talked to officials and the football federation on the presence of women in (Tehran’s) Azadi stadium,” ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Presidential Villa, Abuja Sports and Youth Development minister, Sunday Akin Dare has said that he will continue to work together with the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to ensure that football does not suffer despite its leadership undergoing government agency’s procedural examination. Speaking to the State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council ...