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Dukku Warriors edged Abubakar Malami FC in the championship match of the seventh edition of Dr. Mohammed Sanusi State Super League Finals staged at the Dukku Barracks football ground last weekend. Football stakeholders from far and near gathered in Birnin Kebbi for the finals of the annual competition which also guarantees the two finalists slots in the Division Three of ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The chairman of Abia Warrios football club of Umuahia, Pastor Emeka Inyama has described his team’s impressive 3-0 hammering of Plateau United of Jos in the weekend’s Nigeria Professional Football Leaque (NPFL) as the best Christmas gift he received this yuletide. Speaking exclusively to sportsrevelation from his country-home in Umunwanwa, Umuahia in Abia State today, Inyama revealed ...

Harry Awurumibe with agency report The 2022 World Cup host, Qatar are the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking highest risers in 2019 just as the team was crowned AFC Asian Cup champions for the first time. Now focused on the 2022 FIFA World Cup on home soil, Qatar is accustomed to organising global sporting competitions with the latest of them being the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Determined to make the Super Falcons a stronger team that will once again return to the winning ways, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is set to announce the substantive head coach of the senior national women’s football team. Sportsrevelation can confirm that another European coach will lead the reigning African Women’s Cup of Nation (AWCON) champions to ...

 Harry Awurumibe, Abuja Hope rises for a Nigerian player to return home next year with the  Confederation of African Football (CAF) Best Player Award as three Nigerian players have made the final list of the three nominees in their categories. Three-time winner of the CAF Women’s Player of the Year, Asisat Lamina Oshoala  has made the top three list of ...

Harry Awurumibe,  Abuja with agency report World soccer ruling body, FIFA has shunned Nigeria as it has instead awarded the hosting rights of the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women’s World  Cup final to Costa Rica and Panama. According to a statement from FIFA made available to the press, the two nations  have been given the hosting rights consideringtheir ability to stage ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. The Eritrean senior football team, The Red Sea Boys has qualified for the semi-final of the 2019 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup with most of the squad members not even born in 1994 when the country played in the semi final of the showpiece for the first. Not only have they shown that they are a team growing ...

Harry Awurumiube, AAbuja with agency report Even after losing a star player, Luka Doncic over the weekend as the Dallas Mavericks prepped for their turn in the tank against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night seemed, well, like a bridge too far. Bad enough that the Mavericks were headed into the shredder against the reigning Eastern Conference champions. With the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Even without the host country for the 2020 FIFA Women’s World Cup determined by the world football governing body, Nigeria’s Falconets are set to take on Burkina Faso or Gambia in the first round of the African qualifiers which will begin in January with no fewer than 29 countries featuring in the preliminaries. African giant, Nigeria has ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja The world football ruling body FIFA has said that it had filed court claims in Switzerland to force former Vice President, Michel Platini to return two million Swiss francs ($2 million, 1.84 million euros) he received during ex- President Sepp Blatter’s reign at world football’s governing body. FIFA banned Platini in 2015 over the payment he received, ...