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By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Spain was so dominant against Switzerland in the first game of the Round of 16 played early Saturday morning in Nigeria at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand as La Roja ran away 5-1 winners to be the first team to qualify for the quarter-final stage. Switzerland entered the match as the Group ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist A first half extra time goal scrambled in by Anissa Lahmari was all that Morocco needed to clinch a hard won 1-0 victory over tough Colombia in the last Group H tie  at Perth Rectangular Stadium on Thursday. By this result, Morocco garnered six points to finish second behind Colombia but which ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Against all odds, African teams to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand have performed above the expectations of many bookmakers before the competition in Down Under started on July 20. It will end on August 20, 2023. After the preliminary round, no fewer than three African ...

  By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The Super Falcons will face their toughest test yet in the ongoing 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand when Nigeria meets the reigning European champions England in the Round of 16 tie at Lang Park, Brisbane on Monday, July 7. The Three Lionesses thrashed  hapless China 6-1 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Never in the history of of the FIFA Women’s World Cup final has Nigeria finished top of the group in the preliminary stage. But all that will change at the end of 90 minutes win or burst Group B decider between the Super Falcons of Nigeria and Republic of Ireland Green Girls ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Against all odds, Nigeria defeated Australia 3-3 in both country’s second match in the ongoing 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup played at Brisbane Stadium on Thursday to blow Group B wide open. It took five extra minutes of the first half of the highly explosive match for the goals to start coming ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist African teams’ poor run of form at FIFA Women’s World Cup final has  continued to rear its ugly head again in Australia and New Zealand as three out of four countries representing the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the expanded edition of the competition have lost their first group matches. Save ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Amanda Ilestedt scored a last-minute winner to help her country, Sweden to beat South Africa in the first Group G match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Wellington, New Zealand early Sunday morning. The 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) champions came close to picking up their first point at a ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist It was a classical display of football artistry by the Nadeshiko ofJapan as they took the Copper Queens of Zambia to the cleaners by scoring five unreplied goals in the opening Group C match on Saturday morning played in Waikato Stadium, Hamilton, New Zealand. The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup champions showed ...

***As Abiodun bags red card By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau A 48 minute penalty save by Super Falcons’ first choice goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie ensured that Nigeria held the Olympic champions Canada to a barren draw which was enough to secure one point from the position of losing all in the first Group B match at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium in ...