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***As India zooms to AFC 2nd round stage By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Super Falcons first-ever foreign coach, Thomas Dennerby and his Indian senior women’s football team has again  trounced Kyrgyz Republic 4-0 in the second match of Group G of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Olympic Qualifier series. India had thrashed  Kyrgyz Republic 5-0 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’sNo.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria’s senior women football  team, Super Falcons on Friday grinded out a 2-1 victory over lowly rated Haiti in the first of two friendly matches in Antalya, Turkey ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final billed for  Australia and New Zealand. This victory is coming on the heels of Nigeria’s 1-0 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau The Lionesses of England on Thursday night beat the ‘Samba Girls’ of Brazil 4-2 on penalties after both ended the regulation time 1-1in the maiden ‘Women’s Finalissima’, an Inter-continental friendly game to prepare both country for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand. England’s Chloe Kelly scored the winning ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Less than four months to the start of 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, the Fédération Française de Football (French Football Federation) on Thursday appointed Herve Renard as the new  France Women’s football team’s head coach. The Frenchman who resigned from his position as Saudi Arabia ...

***As Super Eagles devour Wild Dogs By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Abuja A first half penalty  goal scored by Super Eagles left-winger Moses Simon after the overlapping defender Bright Osayi-Samuel was hacked down in the opposition box, was all Nigeria needed to defeat host Guinea-Bissau 1-0 away to avenge last Friday’s home loss in the Match Day 3 of the African ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Head Coach Randy Waldrum has called up team captain Onome Ebi, and forwards Asisat Oshoala and Rasheedat Ajibade to the camp of Super Falcons ahead of next month’s couple of international friendly matches in Turkey. The nine-time African champions have a date against World Cup-bound Haiti women’s national team at the Emir ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist The FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy Tour African leg was concluded in Abuja on Sunday with the Super Falcons captain Onome Ebi, students of the Anglican Girls Secondary School and a Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWF) club, Naija Ratels FC on hand to view the glittering 18 carats gold piece of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief,  Abuja The original FIFA Women’s World Cup™ Trophy, to be competed for by 32 teams from across the globe from July 20 to August 20 this year, landed in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja on Saturday afternoon. According to a press statement made available by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Saturday said already, the coveted ...

Shape Up or Ship Out, NFF President, Gusau tells Super Eagles By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja **Says Total commitment now pre-requisite for wearing Nigeria’s colours N Apparently disappointed with the Super Eagles’ home loss to Guinea Bissau on Friday in Abuja, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF),  Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Saturday announced that visible total commitment implying ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The death in the early hours of Monday, March 13, 2023, of former Nigeria international player, club legend and foremost women’s football tactician, Alhaji Ismaila Mabo, has left a sour taste in the mouth of many who knew him especially his immediate family, relations, associates and indeed, the football fraternity within and ...