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By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup winner and incumbent President of United States Soccer Federation (USSF), Cindy Marie Parlow Cone has been re-elected for a new term of four years as she fended off a challenge from her predecessor, Carlos Cordeiro. Cone won 52.9% of the weighted vote from the USSF’s National Council, ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Three goals scored by Blessing Emmanuel (36′), Oluwatunmininu Adebayo (66′) and Taiwo Ajakaiye (76′) ensured that Nigeria’s U-17 women’s team, Flamingos thrashed host, DR Congo’s U-17 team 3-0 at their backyard in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 African qualifiers second round first leg match on Sunday. The match played ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Augustine Eguavoen has called up Captain Ahmed Musa, deputy captain William Ekong, midfielder Wifred Ndidi and forwards Moses Simon and Kelechi Iheanacho in a Super Eagles’ provisional list of 32 for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 play-off round against the Black Stars of Ghana. Also called up are goalkeepers Maduka ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football journalist After a first round that saw the qualification of Eritrea, Kenya, DR Congo, Senegal and Benin following the withdrawal of their respective opponents, the second qualifying round for the U-17 Women’s World Cup will take place during the weekends of March 4-6 and March 18-20, 2022. Also, Nigeria’s Flamingos are already in ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editior-in-Chief, Abuja Barely three weeks to the first leg of the final round of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier matches involving ten countries still in the race for the five tickets to represent Africa, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the official dates and venues of the two legged matches including the tie between ...

The leadership of Female Football Interest Group (FFIG) has commended the senior women’s football team, Super Falcons for booking a ticket for the upcoming Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) billed for Morocco in July. The 11-time Champions of Africa since 1991, defeated Les Femelles Elephantes (Lady Elephants) of Cote d’Ivoire 2-0 in Abuja and 1-0 in Abidjan to qualify ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria comfortably qualified for her 13th Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) after defeating Cote d’Ivoire 1-0 courtesy of Ijeoma Esther Okoronkwo’s  87′ goal on Wednesday at Stade Robert Champroux, Abidjan as Nigeria  qualified on 3-0 on aggregate. Also, ‘Africa’s Elites’ teams- Cameroon and South Africa with 11 previous appearances have ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Super Falcons’ Ijeoma Esther Okoronkwo’s 87th minute goal helped Nigeria to a 1-0 win over Cote d’Ivoire  and finally knocked the Lady Elephants  out of this year’s Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) billed for Morocco in July. The victory at Stade Robert Champroux in Abidjan ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigerian-American, Ifeoma Onumonu scored a brace to help struggling Super Falcons to defeat the Lady Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire 2-0 in the first leg of the final qualifying round of  the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (AWCON) at the  Moshood Abiola National Stadium ,Abuja on Friday. Onumonu who is on the payrolls of ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist All is set for the ‘win or burst’ Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) first leg final round qualifier match involving reigning African Champions, Nigeria’s Super Falcons and visiting Lady  Elephants (Les Femelles Elephantes) of Cote d’Ivoire billed for Friday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. Few years ago, a match ...