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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief /Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Respite has come the way of Super Falcons as the seven-match losing streak of the Nigeria’s senior women’s team was halted early Wednesday with the 1-0 win over Costa Rica in Leon, Mexico, courtesy of Ijeoma Esther Okoronkwo’s 45′ strike. The Saint-Étienne forward’s goal ensured that Nigeria ended the four-nation invitational ...

***As Inter-continental Play-off commences By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief /Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist It was mixed fortunes for the  two African representatives in the 10-nation FIFA Women’s World Cup Inter-continental Play-off holding in New Zealand as Cameroon beat  Thailand 2-0 while Senegal suffered a humiliating 4-0 defeat in the hands of Haiti in the first of two matches to qualify ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief /Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist For Super Falcons, losing has become a culture as the team was condemned to its second defeat in three days after forward, Linda Caicedo’s 8th minute strike gifted Colombia a 1-0 victory over the hapless Nigerians at Leòn Stadium, Mexico on Saturday in the 4-nation invitational tournament tagged Revelation Cup. The ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor /Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist The losing streak of Super Falcons have refused to abate as the team was once again beaten 1-0 by host country, Mexico’s senior women’s team in the early hours of Thursday in the first match of the 4-nation invitational tournament tagged Women’s Revelation Cup. An 85th-minute goal scored by forward, Kiana Palacios ...

**As FIFA inter-continental Play-off starts Saturday By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Africa may get extra slots as Cameroon, Senegal and eight other nations fight for the remaining three slots to complete the 32-team 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final billed for Australia and New Zealand this summer. Both Cameroon and Senegal will this weekend be in action ...

BY Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women Football Journalist As the Super Falcons get set to use next month’s Revelation Cup Tournament billed for Leon, Mexico City, to shape up for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, red-hot Nigerian striker Cynthia Onyedikachi Aku has said she is ready to fight for the No.9 shirt. Aku, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist As part of their pre-tournament preparations ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final billed for this summer in Australia and New Zealand, Head Coach Randy Waldrum has called up 23 players of Nigeria’s Super Falcons for next month’s Revelation Cup Tournament to be staged in Leon, Mexico City, among them Captain ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Again, merciless United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) thrashed co-host New Zealand 5-0 in the second match of the two-match international friendlies between both countries ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final  billed for July in Australia and New Zealand.    By this result, Team USA completed a sweep in the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in -Chief, Abuja Five months to the the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, the reigning  champions United States of America (USA) have sent out a warning signal to the rest of the world by hammering the co-host New Zealand 4-0 in an international friendly match played in Wellington in the early hours ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja With five months to  2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kick off, four-time champions, United States of America (USA) look good to defend their 2019 title in Australia and New Zealand. This is even as Team USA is embarking on a training tour of New Zealand where they are billed to play two games on the ...