Jill Roord headed a ninth-minute opener from a corner in the game played from 4am South Africa time.
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After Jamaica clinched a spot in the last 16 of the Women’s World Cup at the expense of soccer giants Brazil on Wednesday, one reporter suggested it made the Reggae Girlz the “Cinderella team” of the tournament.
Fatma Samoura, FIFA Secretary-General, spoke in a viral video said to have been shot in Super Falcons dressing room.
The former Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The 40-year-old became the one of the oldest women to have featured at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Katie McCabe had given Ireland an early lead by scoring her country’s first Women’s World Cup goal.
Nigeria and Australia will set alight the Lang Park in Brisbane/Meaanjin on Thursday night in what is one of the…
Disclosing the deliberate approach by the company, CEO, MultiChoice West Africa, John Ugbe, said the move is part of the SuperSport ‘Here for Her’ campaign, aimed at celebrating the success and achievements of women.
A total of over 1.5 million tickets have been sold at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The world football governing body FIFA, announced this Monday.
Chiamaka Nnadozie is the big name on everyone’s lips in Brisbane and even as the locals shout to you across the parks “we shall be there, no worries”, once they notice you’re a Nigerian, they still mutter under their breath: “You’ve got a great goalkeeper.”
Football fans in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said they are confident that the Super Eagles would qualify for the 2026 FIFA world cup from the African zone.
Recall that the Nigerian female team forced Canada to a 0-0 draw in Melbourne Friday with an impressive performance from Nnadozie, who is also the team’s captain.
The side with 1486.48 points held on tightly to her 39th spot in the world, just they are ranked sixth best team in Africa.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the World Cup is being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
The 2023 tournament was staged at a time when many of the top leagues around the world had already started.
He made the announcement at the General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football in Abidjan on Thursday.
Presenting the motion, Osoba said that there was a need for necessary action to prevent the planned boycott of the FIFA World Cup by the female national team, the Falcons.
In addition, it said it has installed a normalisation committee to ensure that FIFA statutes are followed there.
This development comes after FIFA’s decision to increase Africa’s direct tickets to the World Cup from five to nine.
President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Monday called on FIFA refereeing instructors who are in Nigeria for three refereeing programmes, to help improve the lot of Nigerian referees to a level that they would be regularly considered for major FIFA and CAF assignments.