Women’s Football

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist In probing why Nigeria’s league champions, Rivers Angels of Port Harcourt crashed out in the group stage of the maiden CAF Women’s Champions League  (CAFWCL) in Cairo, Egypt, the role of the twin monsters, corruption in our football leagues and security challenges will be examined in this report. The game of football ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The reasons Nigerian women’s football league champions, Rivers Angels Football Club of Port Harcourt was knocked out in the group stage of the  maiden Confederation of Africa Football  Women’s Champions League (CAFWCL) in Cairo, Egypt will not be fully discussed in one fell swoop. As highlighted in the first part of this ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The elimination of Nigerian women’s football league champions, Rivers Angels Football Club of Port Harcourt from the on-going maiden Confederation of Africa Football  Women’s Champions League (CAFWCL) in Cairo, Egypt is a sad commentary on the current state of women’s football in Nigeria. Also, Rivers Angels’ exit at the group stage of ...

 Chiamaka Nnadozie made #FIFAWWC history against Korea Republic The 18-year-old reveals she’s the joker of the squad Nnadozie insists Nigeria will not lose to France By Ann Odong with Nigeria The FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ has seen some superb goalkeeping performances, and among them is a record-breaking one from Chiamaka Nnadozie. Nigeria entered their second match against Korea ...

• Women’s football practitioners and representatives from FIFA’s 211-member associations and six confederations gather on the opening day of FIFA Women’s Football Convention • Discussions explored and debated the five strategic pillars from the Women’s Football Strategy.  On the eve of Opening Match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019, delegates from confederations and 211 member associations gathered in Paris today to ...

With a no-nonsense look etched on her face, Ada Hegerberg stares straight into the camera and says: “Now it’s time for action.” It’s fitting the Norwegian superstar was chosen as the face of a recently launched campaign aimed at improving the profile and standards in women’s soccer. Not just because, as the first ever female winner of the Ballon d’Or, ...

Norway’s Ada Stolsmo Hegerberg who was named the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year 2019, just days after scoring a 16-minute hat-trick to fire Lyon to the Champions League title may be her country’s saviour in the FIFA Women’s World Cup final in France. The Norway/Lyon Women’s team forward now holds both the Ballon d’Or and the BBC WFOTY. This ...

Japanese referee Yoshimi Yamashita is hoping her trailblazing work as part of the first all-female trio to officiate a men’s match in Asian continental competition last week will encourage girls to feel they can do anything in the game. Along with Makoto Bozono and Naomi Teshirogi, Yamashita made history last Wednesday when she took charge of the clash between Yangon ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Host country, Cote d’ Ivoire went goal-crazy in the opening match of the 2nd edition of the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) competition in Abidjan yesterday by hammering hapless Republic of Togo 5 nil. The Ivorien ladies did not allow their opponents a breathing space and pressure them till the end of the match which saw ...