Africa have been consistently represented at the Women’s World Cup since Nigeria’s Super Falcons qualified for the inaugural tournament in 1991, but a title has not nearly been in sight.
Only once has an African side reached the quarterfinals, and that was in 1999 when Nigeria reached the top 8, and that was as far as they went.
What should be expected of the three participating nations in France, namely Nigeria, South Africa, and Cameroon, and can any improve the continent’s fortunes in…
Nigeria striker Francisca Ordega is one of a rare group of Africans who have played in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the US, but says she opted to move to China for the money.
Along with Ordega, the likes of South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana and Linda Motlhalo, both of whom played for the Houston Dash last season, have chosen to leave the world’s most competitive league for far-away riches.
With the NWSL paying fairly low salaries compared to Europe and Asia, Ordega says she had no real…
Nigeria striker Francisca Ordega is one of a rare group of Africans who have played in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the US, but says she opted to move to China for the money.
Along with Ordega, the likes of South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana and Linda Motlhalo, both of whom played for the Houston Dash last season, have chosen to leave the world’s most competitive league for far-away riches.
With the NWSL paying fairly low salaries compared to Europe and Asia, Ordega says she had no real…
Not since Fanny Amun’s ‘wobbling and fumbling’ Flying Eagles team of 1999 has a Nigeria under-20 side been so poor as to draw the amount of vitriol that Paul Aigbogun’s team has attracted.
And even that team did manage to make it through to the Under-20 World Cup quarterfinals before they were dumped out by a Seydou Keita-inspired Mali.
On Monday, the current team posted arguably their best performance of the 2019 FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Poland as they went down 2-1 to Senegal to call time on…
BARCELONA, Spain — When Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala was a young girl growing up in Nigeria, her mum wouldn’t give her money for food if she had been playing football on the streets with the boys.
You can imagine, then, how she reacted when, at the age of 15, she found out her daughter was going to drop out of school in pursuit of a career in the game.
“I actually stopped going to school because at some point I had a lot of problems with my parents,” Oshoala told ESPN FC in May.
“They wanted…
Nigeria’s Leon Balogun believes Nigeria need to win the 2019 AFCON to prove they are the best team in Africa.
May saw the major European leagues come to an end, with a slew of Nigerian claiming mostly team honours.
There were still more than a few standout individual performances, led by the phenomenal yongster Victor Osimhen, who claims top spot in this month’s Power Rankings.
But who else joined him in the top 10?
1. Victor Osimhen (Royal Charleroi Sporting Club)
There can be fewer easier picks than this, as Victor Osimben sizzled in May, rattling off four goals in six games to propel Charleroi to the…
Eight years after surrendering their WAFU Cup of Nations title in a bewildering upset at home to Togo, Nigeria will get a chance to exact some measure of revenge against Les Aigles.
The teams were drawn to face each other early in this year’s tournament, in a revised format that will see teams face each other in a high stakes knockout schedule.
Wednesday’s draw in Dakar, Senegal, decided the first eight fixtures for the first phase of knockout matches, with the winners of those matches progressing…
Nigeria have been unable to translate their dominance of African football into consistent success at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, but coach Thomas Dennerby says his side have the potential to reach the latter stages of the upcoming tournament in France.
The Super Falcons have played at every World Cup since the inaugural event in 1991, but they have progressed beyond the first round just once — reaching the quarterfinals in 1999, when it was still a 16-team tournament.
“Our ambition is to get to…
How fitting that it was Henry Onyekuru who headed home the winning goal for Galatsaray against rivals Basaksehir, to win the Turkish Cup and claim a domestic double on the weekend.
It was a satisfying conclusion not only to a remarkable game — which saw the Super Eagles forward denied what seemed an excellent goal on a marginal offside call — but also to a season that was, for all intents and purposes, a comeback campaign for the young striker.
He is not the biggest of forwards, but Onyekuru’s…