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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Two Abuja-based academy clubs, Sensational Star (2-S) and Mamba FC will kick off the  2023 Talent Hunt Nigeria, an  annual recruitment competition organised by Roberts Canada Soccer Academy in conjunction with Carl Academy and Football Collge Umuahia, slated for  the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Monday. According to the fixture of the week-long youth football ...

**South Africa, Zambia too By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Angola have joined the defending champions South Africa and bronze-winning Zambia to qualify for the second round of the Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2024 qualifiers. This is even as countries like Guinea, Mali,  Ghana, Togo and Tunisia are almost through to ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football  Journalist Nigeria’s Super Falcons have  qualified for the second round of the Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2024 qualifiers without kicking a ball as their opponents from Saò Tome and Principe have officially withdrawn from the race few days to the first leg of the first round of the match between ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said that Super Falcons head coach Randy Waldrum will be incharge of the team for the first  leg of CAF Women’s Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2024 qualifier match against Saò Tome and Principe senior women’s football team in Lagos next weekend. This clarification was made by the NFF President, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Executive Committee has commended the country’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons for an impressive outing at the just concluded FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023, in which the team reached the Round of 16 and exited the tournament without losing a match in regulation period. This ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Determined to give talented young players the opportunity to fulfil their ambition of playing professional football, the 2023 Talent Hunt Nigeria, an annual recruitment competition organised by Roberts Canada Soccer Academy and Carl Academy and Football School, Umuahia, will hold from September 25 to October 5, 2023 at Area 3 football pitch, Abuja. This is even ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Continued from yesterday *** For example, a Lagos-based Princess Jegede Babes FC travelled up North several times to honour their away games including to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state to do battles with El Kanemi Queens of Maiduguri and to Mangu Township Stadium in Jos North to play against Tin City ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist An African proverb which is also an Igbo adage said “an elder does not sit at home and watch a tethered goat deliver” (Okenye anaghi ano n’ulo ewu amuo na agbu). The above proverb explains why it has become imperative  for this writer to pen this report to expose the rot in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist It is no longer news that Nigeria’s Women’s Football League (NWFL) Premiership reigning champions, Delta Queens football club of Asaba suffered a 1-0 defeat in the hands of their opponents from Ghana, Ampem Darkoa Ladies FC in the final of WAFU-B Qualifiers for the 2023 CAF Women’s Champions League at Samuel Ogbemudia ...

***Fail to pick CAF Women’s CL ticket  By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Striker Ophelia Amponsah’s 43rd minute goal was enough for Ampem Darkoa FC to pip host team Delta Queens of Asaba by a lone goal to win the WAFU B tournament and also pick the sole ticket for the 2023 CAF Women’s Champions League final at Samuel Ogbemudia ...