‘It’s a day that I will treasure’ – Christy Ucheibe revels in Super Falcons debut
Christy Ucheibe finally made her senior debut for Nigeria in Wednesday’s 1-0 victory over Cote d’Ivoire in Abidjan. The 21-year-old, who represented Nigeria at the 2014 U17 and 2018 U20 Women’s World Cups, saw the final 25 minutes as the Super Falcons completed the double over the Ivorians with a 3-0 aggregate win to qualify […]
CAF Champions League: Sundowns set to miss key player?
South African club Mamelodi Sundowns could be without their latest signing Erwin Saavedra when they take on Egyptian giants Al Ahly in the CAF Champions League this weekend. The two clubs are scheduled to meet in a group A match at Al Salaam Stadium on Saturday, 26 February. According to reports coming out of South […]
AWCON 2022: Botswana make history and players get rewarded
The Botswana national women’s team made history by qualifying for the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations and the government in the country has decided to reward the players for their big achievement. According to reports coming out of Botswana, the players of the women’s national team will get P20 000 each ($1.8 thousand). The head […]
2022 AWCON: Zambia get special luncheon for qualifying
The Zambia national women’s team were celebrated in style after qualifying for the 2022 African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON). A luncheon was hosted by Top Star Zambia at Hilton Hotel for the AWCON bound Copper Queens, to honour the team for booking their spot at the competition which will be played in Morocco from […]
Morocco 2022: Nigeria beat Cote d’Ivoire to qualify for Women’s Afcon
Nigeria reached the finals of this year’s Women Africa Cup of Nations Championship after the Super Falcons held out bravely to defeat hosts Lady Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire 1-0 in Abidjan on Wednesday evening. The scoreline meant an aggregate 3-0 win for the nine-time African champions. The Ivorians threw everything into the return leg encounter […]
2022 AWCON: SA coach points to experience after qualifying
Coach of South Africa’s senior women’s national team, Desiree Ellis, has credited her team for showing courage to book their place at the 2022 African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON), which will be hosted by Morocco. Banyana Banyana, as the team is affectionately known, confirmed their place in the competition by beating north Africans Algeria […]
Beach Volleyball: OmiGuard, Customs win 2022 President Cup
OmiGuard International and Nigeria Customs Service are champions of the 2022 President Beach Volleyball Cup in the men and women category respectively on Tuesday. OmiGuard International (Andrew Sunday/Godwin Shekarau) defeated former champions, Kada Kings (Uche Augustine /Peter Jasper) 2-0 (21-19, 21-15) in the men’s final while Nigeria Immigration Service (Goodluck Anyasodike/Emmanuel Emenike) beat Nigeria Customs […]
All Africa Senior Individual Badminton Championship wraps
Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori and Nour Ahmed Youssri are the champions in the men’s and women’s singles respectively of the All Africa Individual Badminton Championship. The Badminton Confederation Africa (BCA) sanctioned championship climaxed at the Lugogo Indoor Stadium in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Sunday. Nigeria’s Opeyori, the second seeded player in the draw defeated Uganda’s […]
New coach Jelusic to lead Lesotho in AFCON 2023 qualifiers
The Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) have appointed Veselin Jelusic as the new national head coach. Jelusic, who is not new to African football, will lead the Lesotho national team in the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2022 preliminary round of the qualifiers next month. Lesotho were drawn to face Seychelles in the preliminary round […]
Burundi coach Niyonkuru happy to guide team to Women’s AFCON qualification
The head coach of Burundi’s women’s team Gustave Niyonkuru has said he is happy the team has made it to the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2022. Burundi’s team qualified for the first time after ejecting Djibouti 11-1 on aggregate in the final phase of the qualifiers. Niyonkuru’s team won the first leg […]
Premier League: Mané and Salah score as Liverpool punish Leeds – Highlights
In a late match of the 19th day of the Premier League, Liverpool hosted Leeds. The Reds made short work of the Peacocks with a 6-0 victory. Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah were both involved in the party. The Reds seem unstoppable right now in all competitions. After beating Inter Milan last week in the […]
UEFA Champions League: Sebastien Haller is unstoppable
Sébastien Haller has not stopped this season in the Champions League. Against Benfica (2-2), he scored his 11th goal in 7 matches, making him the only player to have achieved such a feat in this competition. Who will stop Sebastian Haller this season in the Champions League? That question is worth asking. The Ivorian international […]
