By YAKUBU SOLOMON, Abuja – Super Falcons’ Head Coach Randy Waldrum has picked team captain Onome Ebi and 24 other players to represent Nigeria at the 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), in a statement on...
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Five-time world champions Golden Eaglets on Friday edged the Young Stallions of Burkina Faso 2-1 to win the WAFU B Under-17 Championship at the Cape Coast Stadium in Ghana. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the victory for Nigeria has come barely few weeks after they claimed...
Team Nigeria on Friday qualified for the men’s 4×100 metres relay event of the forthcoming World Athletics Championships in Oregon, U.S.. The quartet of Favour Ashe, Godson Brume, Alaba Akintola and Udodi Onwuzurike, who are reigning World Under-20 champions, ran a new time of 38.34 seconds. The team booked...
Randy Waldrum, the Head Coach of the Nigeria National Women’s Football Team, Super Falcons, on Thursday said the team was ready for the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) in Morocco. Waldrum disclosed this to newsmen at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja after the two friendlies...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped by one spot in the FIFA World ranking for June to become world 31st and fourth-placed team in Africa. According to the ranking table published on FIFA’s verified Thursday, the Jose Peseiro-tutored players garnered 1,504.7 points in the month under review. On...
Brazilian star, Neymar has been reportedly offered to Barcelona by Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). It was gathered that Barcelona gave the French club a chance to re-sign Neymar for £43.1million. In 2017, Neymar completed his £198m switch to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona, and has since scored over 90 goals for the club...
Eight medical personnel will stand trial for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public on Wednesday. No date has been set for the trial of the staff over Maradona’s death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due...
Sadio Mane signed autographs wearing a Bayern Munich shirt Tuesday after flying to Germany for a medical check before the Liverpool forward completes a move to the Bundesliga champions. Broadcaster Sky showed footage of the 30-year-old touching down at Munich airport before being taken to a hospital in the city centre...
Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku will rejoin Inter Milan on a one-year loan deal after a disappointing spell with the Premier League club, according to reports on Tuesday. Inter are reported to have negotiated an eight million euro ($8.4 million) loan fee to sign Lukaku, who reportedly agreed a pay cut to leave...
President of the Cameroon Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o, has been sentenced to 22-month in jail. His former agent, Jose Maria Mesalles, who he referred to as a father, was also handed a one year jail term. But since neither of them has a criminal record, they will not serve...
The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will take on Burkina Faso in the final match of the 2022 WAFU B Under-17 tournament on Friday in Cape Coast, Ghana. In the competition’s second semi-final match on Tuesday, Burkina Faso edged hosts Ghana 1-0. This was courtesy of a second half penalty...
FC Barcelona have confirmed their stadium move for the 2023/2024 season while the Camp Nou undergoes renovations and revealed they will play in the city’s Olympic stadium. A significant venture for the Catalan side is currently under development, with the “Espai project” seeing major works conducted at both Camp...
Football’s governing body FIFA is joining other sports federations in reviewing their rules for transgender athletes, a spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. The aquatics sports body FINA and the International Rugby League (IRL) decided over the past days to exclude trans athletes from women’s events. The World Athletics may follow...
One of the two luxury cars Cristiano Ronaldo had shipped to Majorca for his family summer holiday has been involved in an accident. The Man United striker’s £1.7million 900 horsepower Bugatti Veyron is said to have crashed in the east coast resort of Sa Coma. An employee of the...
Nine-time African champions Nigeria will take on the senior women national football team of Japan in an international friendly match at the Noevir Stadium in Kobe, Japan on Oct. 6. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Super Falcons are ranked 39th by world football governing body...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Sunday said the 2022 edition of its Awards will return on July 21 in Morocco. The continental football governing body, in a statement on its website, said the Awards would be held ahead of the final match of Africa’s flagship women competition....
Players and officials of Rangers International FC of Enugu on Saturday lost their cool after sharing points in their Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Week 34 match with Rivers United. In the match played at the Awka Township Stadium, Rangers first saw a 55th minute effort by Bala Akintunde...
World governing football body, FIFA has announced a list of 16 cities to host the 2026 World Cup. This comes as FIFA also announced on Friday that the competition will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The list of host cities was revealed in a ceremony in...
The President of Cycling Federation of Nigeria (CFN) , Giandomenico Massari, on Friday in Abuja said the federation was set to host 20 countries for the Africa Cup Track Cycling Championship. Massari told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the championship would hold from July 14 to July...
Liverpool have agreed to allow Senegalese player, Sadio Mane, to make a move to Bayern Munich for a fee worth £35 million. Bayern had two early bids of £25 million and £30 million rejected for the Reds forward after losing out on a chance to sign Erling Haaland. According...