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Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau The United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) and reigning FIFA Women’sWorld Cup Champions could be just 90 minutes away from qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. The stars-ladden team will on Friday, February 7 at the on-going 2020 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic qualifying championship battle Mexico in the second semi final match which ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed retired Nigerian professional footballer, former Super Eagles player and Assistant Coach, Daniel Amokachi, Nigeria’s Football Ambassador. Amokachi, a member of the 1994 Super Eagles Team that won the African Nations Cup in Tunisia, was also in the Nigerian Olympic Football Team to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics that won the Gold Medal. This ...

Harry Awurumibe with agency report Following incidents related to the Total CAF Champions League 2019/20 Match Day 6 between Al Hilal (Sudan) and Al Ahly (Egypt) played last Saturday, February 1, 2020, in Omdurman, the CAF Disciplinary Committee met on Tuesday, 4 February 2020, and has decided as follows; – The referee’s report stated that match ended 1-1, therefore the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja National U-17 women’s football team, Flamingos today in Abuja started light training ahead of the first leg away match against Guinea on February 28 just as Nigeria’s next opponents in the second round will be West African rivals, Ghana. Although the bulk of the invited players have not arrived the camp located at Area 11 in the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team,  The Flamingos camp opened in Abuja today with invited players already on ground for the technical crew to start screening as early as Monday or Tuesday ahead of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup African qualifier match against Guinea on February 28 in Conakry. Sportsrevelation can confirm that most of the invited ...

Harry Awurumibe with agency report Infantino was speaking at a Caf seminar in Morocco, focusing on the development of football competitions and infrastructure in Africa. “I propose to organise the Africa Cup of Nations every four years rather than two years,” the Fifa President said. “The CAN [Africa Cup of Nations] generates twenty times less than the Euros. Having a ...

Harry Awurumibe,  Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja called on private sector investors to join hands with the government in youth and sports development in the country. The President spoke at a ceremony to receive the “Torch of Unity’’ and flag-off of its movement across Nigeria, heralding the National Sports Festival scheduled to hold in Benin City, the Edo ...

Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau Vanessa Bryant, wife of 41-year-old retired NBA star, Kobe Bryant, has made her first public statement since the unfortunate death of her husband and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna alongside seven others in a tragic helicopter crash Sunday morning in Southern California. Vanessa posted on her social media platform (Instagram) yesterday  (Wednesday) for the first time ...

Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau The Super Eagles new Nike kits which will be unveiled in the United States of America (USA) on February 5, 2020 will not be seen on the players till later in June. PromptNews exclusively learnt from an authoritative source in Nike that the new kits will be seen on the picth for the first time ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Nigeria’s opponent in the first round of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2020 African qualifiers, Guinea at the weekend held Guinea Bissau to a 3-3 draw to qualify to meet Nigeria on March 28 in continuation of the qualifying campaigns. Guinea had earlier defeated Guinea Bissau 5-0 at Stade 28 Septembre, Conakry in the first ...