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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Determined to be amongst the best coaches in African continent, the assistant coach of Nigeria’s senior women’s football team, Super Falcons, Ann Agumanu-Chiejine, has obtained her badge as a Confederation of African Football (CAF) Elite Women Instructor. Chiejine who also holds CAF Grade A License, UEFA and U.S  B Coaching Certificates, received the badge at ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)  has released the list of players to represent Nigeria in this month’s Paris 2024 Women Olympic Football Tournament qualification fixture against the senior women team of Ethiopia with  goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, defender Osinachi Ohale and forward Asisat Oshoala headlining a list of 22 players invited to the Super ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The Governing  Board of the Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL) has approved Wednesday, November 15, 2023 as the resumption date for the 2023/2024 season just as the body retained the abridged form of the leaque. Also, the NWFL at its 2023 Annual General Assembly (AGA) held on Thursday October 5, 2023 at ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief No fewer than 300 players from across Nigeria showcased their football skills in the weeklong Carl Academy/Cadiz CF Talent Hunt 2023 scouting programme which ended in Abuja at weekend with over a dozen of the players sure of being recommended for professional career abroad. Specifically, players from the ages 18 to 20 were selected by the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Impressed by the standard of football been displayed by the teams taking place in the tournament which is holding at Area 3 playground, Abuja, Chairman of Yagazie Foundation and Sports Inc, Kennedy Chinedu Ezirim, Thursday donated three sets of jerseys to three academy clubs to encourage them. Ezirim made the presentation at the venue of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau The national U-20 female football team, the Falconets, have progressed to the third round of the African qualifiers for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals slated for Colombia following the sudden withdrawal of the second round opponents Mauritius. Prompt News  reports that Nigeria  Football Federation (NFF) has since received official notification of ...

**Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire miss out By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau As earlier predicated, Cape Verde has been confirmed as Nigeria’s next opponents in the second round of the Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2024 qualifiers after the first round matches have been concluded. This is even as the second round of the WAFCON qualifiers’ field has been ...

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 ...