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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Defending Champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria will clash with Togo or Niger Republic senior women’s football team in the second round of the 2020 African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) just as the competition  kicks off April 6. According to the fixtures released by the Confederation of African Football  (CAF) in Cairo, Egypt the first round will ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Nigerian-born British boxer, AnthonyJoshua today in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia defeated United States-Mexican, Andy Ruiz Jr in a unanimous decision to reclaim his three World Heavyweight Boxing titles he lost to the same man earlier this year. Ruiz stopped Joshua in the 7th round when both boxers squared up at Madison Square Garden, New York in June. Joshua ...