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Harry Awurumibe, Live in France With all the three African countries losing their first round of matches in the on-going 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France, stakeholders have decried African teams’ poor results so far. They are also expecting that the teams will bounce back to the winning ways in their subsequent matches in the month-long competition which ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Live in France  Determined to pick all the three points at stake in tomorrow’s crucial Group A match in Grenoble, the Super Falcons have trained under the rains at Stade Eugene Thenard today. Head Coach Thomas Dennerby and his technical crew have been trying to get the players in the right shape to win the next match ...

Harry Awurumibe in Super Falcons Head Coach Thomas Dennerby is optimistic that Nigeria will get a favorable result against South Korea when both countries meet in a make or burst match in Grenoble on June 12. Dennerby who disclosed this to PromptNews in France today said that his optimism stems from the seriousness shown by the players in their first ...

By Harry Awurumibe Two days after Norway defeated Nigeria3-0 in Reims in the on-going 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France, Super Falcons players and officials have picked themselves up from the loss and have promised to beat their next opponents, South Korea on Wednesday in Grenoble. Some of the players who have expressed their optimism for a Nigeria’s ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Women’s Football Expert For the Super Falcons of Nigeria, especially the veterans of the FIFA Women’s World Cup final in particular and the Class of 2019 in particular, ‘thunder’ will not strike at the same place the second time. This means that the present squad of the Super Falcons will today in Reims not only face their ...

By Harry Awurumibe With less than 24 hours before the crucial first match between Nigeria and Norway in the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France, Super Falcons attacker, Chinwendu Veronica Ihezuo has declared war on Nigeria’s opponents in today’s Group A match, Norway. Ihezuo who plays her club football in China has promised the Norwegians a hard time ...

The U15 National Team, also known as Future Eagles, will depart Nigeria for Japan on Sunday to participate in this year’s International Dream Cup for U16 teams taking place in the city of Miyagi, 12th – 16th June. A team of 18 players and eight officials, led by NFF Executive Committee member Musa Adamu Duhu will depart from Lagos aboard ...

Three –time champions Nigeria have a full house in Asaba, Delta State for Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations sendforth friendly against the Warriors of Zimbabwe. Since qualifying for this year’s AFCON finals following a 1-1 draw with South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in Johannebsurg in November 2018, the Super Eagles have played two friendlies – a 0-0 draw with the ...

After the Nigeria Football Federation cleared all their outstanding entitlements, the Super Falcons say they are in the mood and spirit to take all three points off the Grasshoppers of Norway in their first match of the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Reims on Saturday. One of only seven teams to have made it to every edition of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. FIFA President, Gianni Infantino was re-elected to office at the body’s 69th Congress in Paris, France on Wednesday. He was re-elected by acclamation by FIFA’s 211 member associations as he was the only candidate for the position. He was first elected into office at an Extraordinary Congress in February 2016, following a meltdown that consumed Sepp ...