Super Falcons

Super Falcons quartet of Asisat Oshoala, Rasheedat Ajibade, Chiamaka Nnadozie, and Uchenna Kanu have been CAF Women’s Player of the Year nominations All four players are among 30 nominees, including six South Africans, three Moroccans, three Ghanaians, four Cameroonians, two Zambians, two Zimbabweans, two Tunisians, two Botswanans, one Burundian, and one Togolese. Nigerians are currently …

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Nigeria forward Asisat Oshoala will miss the rest of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) with a knee injury. The four-time – and reigning – African Women’s Footballer of the Year had her tournament ended by a medial ligament injury suffered in Nigeria’s 2-1 defeat by South Africa on Monday. The 27-year-old recently won Spain’s Pichichi award after …

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Nigeria’s Super Falcons defeated Naija Ratels FC 2-1 in a friendly match ahead of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations. The match, played on Thursday at the training pitch of Package A of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, saw Falcons players displaying a high level of performance. Francisca Ordega opened the scoring for them …

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Super Falcons striker, Desire Oparanozie has explained reasons behind her withdrawal from the squad heading to Morocco for the 10th African Women Cup of Nations AWCON. Oparanozie, who plies her professional trade with Wuhan Jiangda of China via her official twitter handle @oparanozie9, explained her absence, adding that she will be cheering the team from …

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Defending champions, Super Falcons have been placed in the same group with arch-rivals South Africa ahead of the Africa Women’s Championship. Nigerian were drawn in Group C alongside South Africa, Burundi and Botswana. Nigeria last played South Africa at the Aisha Buhari invitation tournament and it ended in a 4-2 victory of the Bafana Bafana. …

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On Friday, Nigeria’s Super Falcons lost 0-2 to their Canadian counterparts in the first of a two-game encounter between both sides. The friendly game at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver saw Nigeria’s goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, and later Tochukwu Oluehi, making good saves to limit the 2020 Tokyo Olympic champions. Falcons did their best to …

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Asisat Oshoala has been stripped of the Nigeria women’s team captaincy, SportNewsAfrica can exclusively report. The Barcelona star, who vice-captained the Super Falcons at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, was elevated to the captaincy post on September 17, 2019, but 30 months later, the reigning and record-equaling four-time Africa Women’s Player of the Year …

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