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By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No. 1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria’s hope to return to the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup after missing the last edition in Uruguay brighten this weekend after the Flamingoes thrashed the hapless Democratic Republic of Congo 5-0 at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, Edo state in the return leg of  2nd round of the FIFA ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist Nigeria’s Falconets have put one leg in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Costa Rica 2022 after the team recorded a stunning 3-1 away win over Senegal’s Teranga Lionesses at Stade Lat-Dior in Thies near Dakar in African qualifiers final round first leg encounter on Saturday. Electrifying winger Flourish Sebastine of Edo ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Barely two weeks to the March 29 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers final play-off return leg tie between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and Black Stars of Ghana, the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja venue of the crucial match is wearing a new look. Prompt News reports that the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development has embarked ...

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 ...