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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 ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has warned that it would no longer be business as usual for match commissioners and referees in the domestic game, as persons who fail to meet the high standards already put in place will be summarily ejected and sanctioned appropriately. The NFF President made this ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Edito-in-Chief, Abuja Apparently complying with the demand of aggrieved members of Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) for the football governing body in Nigeria to implement the FIFA CIRCULAR 2020 before the start of a new football season, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has finally constituted its Judicial and Match officiating Committees. The Federation also said that the  Judicial and Match ...

For most Nigerians  especially football followers, the year 2022 will be remembered with mixed feelings in many respects depending on how anyone is assessing it. In keeping with the calendar of human progress, the year 2022 will yield place to the new year, 2023, in the Gregorian calendar hence it had had its time and now assumes its honoured place ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Irrespective of where the pendulum of victory swings to in the second semi final match between Morocco and France at Al Bayt Stadium, Doha  in the on-going FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022, the Moroccan senior football team has already represented the African continent and Arab world as well as their country and families creditablly in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist ….Continued from yesterday While Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc and Pepsi were the first corporate sponsors of the Super Falcons, Nigeria Women’s Football Premier League and Nigeria Women’s Challenge Cup (FA Cup) competitions for four years, Cadbury Nigeria and Julius Berger were the first corporate sponsors to donate cash to NFA (now NFF)  ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Those who still believe that Nigeria  is a force to reckon with in women’s football in Africa at both clubs and national team levels should better wake up from the dream land and accept the current reality that Nigeria has fallen from top to bottom of the ladder.   Although Nigeria still ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Moroccan side ASFAR Club thrashed defending Champions Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies of South Africa 4-0 in the final match of the 2022 CAF Women’s Champions League to emerge new Champions with striker Ibtissam Jraidi’s remarkable hat-trick securing a huge final victory for the host.   Enterprising Fatiman Tagnaout opened scoring for the Moroccan ...