The Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, will on Thursday test strength against Dominion Hotspur FC, a boys’ team based in Lagos, in its first friendly match ahead of next month’s 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations. Head Coach Thomas Dennerby sanctioned the friendly, as the eighth–time African champions began the second phase of camping […]
Super Falcons’ Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has cut to 15 the number of home-based professionals in camp for the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals holding in Ghana. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), in a statement on Monday in Abuja said the team had been training at Epe in Lagos. […]
The list of 17 players invited by coach Thomas Dennerby for the friendly against France on April 6 in Le Mans, France has been officially released to the media. Forwards: Francisca Ordega; Desire Oparanozie; Courtney Dike; Esther Sunday; Anam Imo Midfielders: Rita Chikwelu; Ngozi Okobi; Ini-Abasi Umotong; Ogonna Chukwudi Defenders: Josephine Chukwunonye; Ngozi Ebere; Faith Ikidi; Ugo Njoku; […]
After guiding her team to gain promotion to the Nation Wide Division1 League, proprietress/ Chief Coach of Good Land Rangers FC of Lagos, Ajuma Otache has declared that she has what it takes to handle the Super Falcons. In an exclusive interview with our correspondent, Otache who is the only female coach that handled a […]
The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed Christopher Danjuma as Head Coach of the U20 Women National Team, also known as Falconets. Danjuma will be assisted by Wemimo Matthew (1st Assistant Coach), Mansur Abdullahi (2nd Assistant Coach) and Abdul-lateef Yusuf (Goalkeeper Trainer). The quartet is expected in the Federal Capital, Abuja on Wednesday next week to […]
Nigeria’s Super Falcons may have won the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations but they still haven’t been paid. They are refusing to leave their hotel in the capital Abuja until they get the money they are owed. Ex-football Mercy Akide Udoh told Newsday she is horrified by what is happening:Mercy Akide Udoh says Super Falcons […]
Nigeria’s Super Falcons is set to play friendly match with either Ghana or Cameroun before leaving for Canada. The reigning African champions have been in camp in Abuja, and were supposed to play Mali last weekend in an Olympic Games qualifier, before the Malians withdrew from the process. With no competitive game in sight to […]
Reigning African Women’s Player of the Year and Super Falcons striker, Asisat Oshoala, has called for solid friendly matches for the team as they continue preparations for this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. The Liverpool forward, who’s been Nigeria’s best player for the past year, says it is important for them to play […]
One of the first stars of women’s football in Africa, Mercy Akide Udoh was a trailblazer in more ways than one. An exciting attacking player, she starred for Nigeria in three FIFA Women’s World Cups, two Olympic Football Tournaments and won three African titles with the Super Falcons. She was named by CAF as the […]
The 11th All Africa Games final qualifying round return leg match between Nigeria’s Super Falcons and the senior women’s team of Mali will now be played at the National Stadium, Abuja, on Friday, April 10. General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, revealed that a letter to this effect had been […]