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By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria’s junior women’s football team, Flamingos and five other countries still in the race for the three available tickets to represent Africa in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 will be in action this weekend as the competition enters the final phase with the fourth round first leg matches.  The ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Head Coach Bankole Olowookere has picked 22 players for Friday’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup qualification final round, first leg match between Nigeria and Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. The delegation will travel to Addis Ababa on Wednesday. After home-and-away victories over the Democratic Republic of Congo and Egypt, the Flamingos have ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Determined to raise a strong team that will represent Nieria well at the of the 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) holding in Morocco from July 2nd – 23rd, 2022, Super Falcons Head Coach, Randy Waldrum has invited 32 players to the camp of the reigning African Champions for a two-week ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have technically reached the semi-final stage of the 2022 WAFU B U-20 Championship despite being held to a 2-2 draw by hard-fighting Junior Etalons of Burkina Faso in Niamey on Wednesday. Ibrahim Muhammad sent in a dipping cross from the left that wrongfooted Burkina Faso goalkeeper for the opening goal on 24 ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in -Chief, Abuja Apparently not satisfied with their performances in the ill-fated FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier match between Nigeria and Ghana in Abuja which ended 1-1 thus ending Nigeria’s hope making it to Qatar, Super Eagles’ First Assistant Coach, Salisu Yusuf has released a list of 30 players, including Captain Ahmed Musa and forward Moses ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Football is first about the footballers and then the clubs. Without those two, there will be no need for a football association or federation. With these words, an internationally recognised sports management expert, Dr. Christian Emeruwa, officially announced his desire to run for the exalted position of the President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Again, Nigeria will play old rivals Canada, Korea Republic and France in Group C of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup billed for Costa Rica in August 2022, following Thursday’s draw that was held at the Teatro Nacional in San José, capital of of the central American nation. This is the fourth ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist To ensure that Nigeria’s U-17 women football team Flamingos qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has ordered the team to remain in Abuja camp ahead of the final round matches against Ethiopia in a fortnight. This is even as Head Coach Oloowokere Bankole ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor -in -Chief, Abuja World football ruing body, Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Monday announced it has sanctioned Nigeria following the crowd trouble that occurred immediate after the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 African qualifier tie against Ghana. According to FIFA document made available to the media on Monday, Nigeria was fined the sum of CHF150,000 (N64million) ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. Women’s Football Journalist Even without the dates and venues  for the first and second leg matches not fixed, Ethiopia will host Nigeria in the first leg tie in the final round of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 African qualifiers. Also, Cameroon will take on Tanzania in the first leg match while Ghana will ...