lovewins:


Baba now you are making things up. First things first, the level of competition when Candace got drafted isn't the same now. There's parity in the women's game now. It's why just a few years ago UConn won 4 straight championship in college and haven't won any for quite some time. That's because of top players like CC lifting up programs like Iowa and what Dawn Stanley is doing in South Carolina. Also, no Candace wasn't guarded like CC and this isn't me just parroting unfounded arguments. Even the best of the best have said same thing and the reason they gave us because just like Steph she can shoot from half court and the best thing you do is get the ball out of her hands.

Also, you're factually wrong in that she gets a lot of the ball. She doesn't. As a matter of fact she played as a shooting guard the vast majority of the first 6 games. It was when it didn't work she started getting the ball a little more. Also half her turnovers are because her teammates can't catch a pass, but I agree that's something she needs to work on. Also the turnover argument is also funny cause top players through history always lead in turnovers. Go check who leads in turnovers in the NBA and the WNBA.

Ezinne is still open to playing, but there seems to be some politics in the NBBF keeping these folks away. Michaela is good for the roster, but she isn't great sha. She's at least a lot better than what we currently have. She also won rookie of the year in 2021 even though her draft class was one of the worst we've seen in a decade sha. Lol.

I guess it's the same story with Adaora and others.

Quick one: To move away from the Super Eagles shambolic performances in the World Cup Qualifiers, the brighter side is that the Super Falcons begin their Olympics campaign next month.
The odds will be against us 🆚 every team we'll play in our group, but we can trust our girls not to Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Benin the whole thing! 🥲

Our Super Falcons will go into the Olympics with a 15-streak unbeaten run round their waists and will do their best to shake the world even more than how they did at the World Cup! 💪🏾

Below is our group again, a very quick reminder. Soar high Falcons 🦅🇳🇬

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AC Milan beat Rayadas 4️⃣-0️⃣ in the first match of the Her Nations Cup.

Evelyn Ijeh (28’, 29’, 62’)
Gloria Marinelli (P) 81’.

AC Milan forward Evelyn Ijeh scored 3 goals against Rayadas winning the Best Player of the Match.

Deltamani:
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AC Milan beat Rayadas 4️⃣-0️⃣ in the first match of the Her Nations Cup.

Evelyn Ijeh (28’, 29’, 62’)
Gloria Marinelli (P) 81’.

AC Milan forward Evelyn Ijeh scored 3 goals against Rayadas winning the Best Player of the Match.

Is she staying there an extra year. I know she's there on a short loan.

lovewins:


Is she staying there an extra year. I know she's there on a short loan.

I will prefer she stays there or better move over to a bigger Club and not returning to Tigress 🐯

Tigress Coach will continue to favour Mexico National Team forward Stephanie Mayor ahead of her… Evelyn is young and needs playing time to either continue with Sweden main team or Nigeria.

Samantha Kerr signs new deal with Chelsea that'll keep her at the club till 2026.

They told journalists to expect big news about Sam Kerr this morning, people started speculating that she was leaving and boom came the announcement.

AS Saint Etienne have announced the departure of SuperFalcons goalkeeper Yewande Balogun…!

AS Saint Etienne have announced the departure of SuperFalcons Defensive Midfielder Amanda Mbadi alongside 14 others!

AS Saint Etienne have announced the departure of SuperFalcons Box-2-Box Midfielder Regina Otu alongside 14 others…!

Deltamani:
AS Saint Etienne have announced the departure of SuperFalcons Box-2-Box Midfielder Regina Otu alongside 14 others…!

Why the mass exodus. I had to go check if they relegated but they didn't. Did pretty well too.

lovewins:


Why the mass exodus. I had to go check if they relegated but they didn't. Did pretty well too.

They did finished well… @7th position. To be sincere I didn’t even expect Saint Etienne to finish in that position, I was thinking they might be relegated or narrow escape because of the Strength in their Squad, Regina Otu and Amanda Mbadi were key players with Otu playing 20 League games with 1 goal and Amanda 15games and 1 goal.. Yewande only played 1 league game.

lovewins:


Why the mass exodus. I had to go check if they relegated but they didn't. Did pretty well too.

With the US having another Div1 (USL Super League) just like the NWSL in August, I guess Yewande Balogun (34yrs) might be heading back to the US…. ,


As for Amanda Mbadi (25yrs) One of the talent Randy Waldrum unveiled earlier on should be having a bigger move within the French league alongside Regina Otu (27yrs), Otu deserves to play in a top 5 club in any of the Big leagues in the World. She’s very good!

Deltamani:


They did finished well… @7th position. To be sincere I didn’t even expect Saint Etienne to finish in that position, I was thinking they might be relegated or narrow escape because of the Strength in their Squad, Regina Otu and Amanda Mbadi were key players with Otu playing 20 League games with 1 goal and Amanda 15games and 1 goal.. Yewande only played 1 league game.

Opening room for French girls. I hope Regina and Amanda find clubs in France. Paris FC wouldn't be a bad option for Regina although my hope is that they get Christy Ucheibe

BascoVanVeli:


Opening room for French girls. I hope Regina and Amanda find clubs in France. Paris FC wouldn't be a bad option for Regina although my hope is that they get Christy Ucheibe

I don’t think Paris Fc can pay off the Signing Clause for Christy Ucheibe and again her Market value is higher than Regina Otu’s own. Ucheibe to Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Lyon, PSG or Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid should be the options..

BascoVanVeli:


Opening room for French girls. I hope Regina and Amanda find clubs in France. Paris FC wouldn't be a bad option for Regina although my hope is that they get Christy Ucheibe

Don’t think is about Opening room for French girls, 14 players announced their departure. It’s either they negotiated for a better Contract and Saint Etienne didn’t meet up or they want a better competition elsewhere.. I haven’t forgotten what Esther Okoronkwo said about the pay there..!

Again in that same French league FC FLEURY 91 and MONTPELLIER HSC are another top 5 Clubside there ..

Good to know that they’re doing well in Academic and the game….!🇳🇬♥️🦅

Paris 2024 Olympic Games: SuperFalcons Have Big Ambitions - Oshoala

Super Falcons forward Asisat Oshoala has expressed the team's ambition to not only navigate through the so-called "group of death" but also to
Speaking to FIFA.com, the six-time African Women's Player of the Year conveyed the team's high confidence and readiness to compete at the highest level.
"At the World Cup last year, people said the same thing. They said we were in the Group of Death [with Australia, Canada, and the Republic of Ireland] and could not qualify. But we did,"
Oshoala recalls.
I have a lot of confidence in this team. We have many young players, and we can make things difficult for our opponents."
"We don't just think about getting out of the group; I think we can actually walk away with a medal," the 29-year-old concluded.

The women's football tournament is set to kick off on July 25, a day before the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, with the Super Falcons starting their campaign against Brazil.

🇳🇬 Vs 🇱🇷 #U17WWCQ (2nd Leg)

Meet the Referees for Tomorrow's Clash

Shahenda El-Maghrabi 🇪🇬 (CR)
May Ali Hassan 🇪🇬(AR1)
Gamalat Ahmed Shebl 🇪🇬 (AR2)
Noura Samir El-Sayed 🇪🇬 (4th Off)
Christine Ziga 🇬🇭 (Match Com)
Tesfanesh Woreta Hailu 🇪🇹(Ref Assesor)

Nigeria leads 4-1 on Agg

2023-2024 🇪🇸 Liga F Assists Leaders

1• Caroline Graham Hansen (18)
2• Aitana Bonmatí (11)
3• Mariona Caldentey (9)
4• Eva Navarro (
5• Olga Carmona (
6• Karen Araya (
7• Rinsola Babajide (7)
8• Ona Batlle (6)
9• Irina Uribe (6)
10•Rasheedat Ajibade (6)

Last season Rinsola scored 6 goals and 5 assists for Real Betis before joining UDG Tenerife..

This season 3 goals and 7 Assists

Tobin Heath opens up about her knee injury, via RE-INC podcast.

Deltamani:
Tobin Heath opens up about her knee injury, via RE-INC podcast.

ACL Injury is a Bastard

Imagine Megan Rapinoe on the Left Wing, Alex Morgan no.9 and Tobin Heath on the Right wing… USA best trio in recent years especially the 2019 World Cup with Christen Press the regular sub for either of them on the flank and Carli Lloyd for Morgan…

Press gave an interview yesterday that she and heath haven’t retired from the National team that they’re coming back… I don’t think she and Press still stands a better chance of coming back to the US squad considering their age ((Press 35yrs and Heath 36yrs)) and the Youngsters they have upfront now Swanson, Smith, Rodman and the rest ..

BREAKING!!!

Finidi George In and Out?

The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation held a meeting on Wednesday, 12th June 2024 in hybrid mode to deliberate on important issues in Nigeria Football and resolved as follows:


1) The Executive Committee wholeheartedly apologized to Nigerians for the dismal output and subsequent very poor returns of the Senior Men National Team, Super Eagles, in four out of 10 matches in the ongoing qualification series for the 2026 FIFA World Cup finals, and pledged to work assiduously and put necessary measures in place to ensure a better-prepared squad ahead of the AFCON 2025 qualifiers in September this year and the resumption of the World Cup qualifiers in March 2025.



2) Further to (1) above, the Executive Committee resolved to employ an expatriate Technical Adviser for the Super Eagles in the coming weeks, ahead of the AFCON qualifiers and the remaining FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.



3) Still further to (1) above, the Committee resolved to beef up the NFF Technical Department with more qualitative hands. Equally, the Technical and Development Sub-Committee will be re-jigged with immediate effect.



4) Notwithstanding the challenges that attended the team’s preparations for the Day 3 and Day 4 games of the FIFA World Cup qualifying matches, owing to a 38-hour nationwide industrial action, the Board expressed displeasure with the poor attitude of some of the players to the National Assignment, and unanimously decided in favour of a more robust scouting programme of outstanding Nigeria-eligible players from across the four corners of the universe, who can add tremendous value to the nation’s flagship team.



5) The Executive Committee also resolved that a Stakeholders’ Forum be convened in a few weeks’ time, to deliberate on amendments to the current NFF Statutes, in conjunction with world football-governing body, FIFA.



6) While appreciating the fact that preparation of teams involved in the Olympic Games fall squarely within the purview of the Federal Ministry of Sports Development, the Executive Committee stated unequivocally that it will provide robust support, within the room allowed it, to the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, to adequately prepare for this year’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament, taking place in France 24th July – 11th August.



6) In order to ensure an impressive performance of the U20 Women National Team, Falconets, at this year’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in Colombia, 31st August – 22nd September, the Executive Committee mandated its Technical and Development Sub-Committee to diligently and swiftly consider the programme submitted by the Head Coach for the team’s preparation. The Board approved a two-phase camping for the team, with a four-week camping in Nigeria to be followed by a two-week final camping programme in Colombia before the commencement of the tournament.



7) Impressed by the performance of the U17 Women National Team, Flamingos, so far in their FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup African qualification series, the Executive Committee charged the Secretariat to ensure total readiness of the team for its final round, final leg encounter against their Liberian counterparts, scheduled for the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Friday, 14th June 2024.

Team Japan 🇯🇵 has announced their 18-woman squad for the Olympic Games.

Who are you missing here?

Alex Morgan's arms are the saga of the summer

(via San Diego Wave FC)

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The latest #FIFARanking has dropped! 📲


••• This is where the European teams have an advantage given they're playing qualifiers for the 2025 EUROS. So I'm not surprised the US dropped below Germany despite winning the Women's Gold Cup and She Believes Cup.

••• You have to beat teams rank higher than you to gain this massive points

••• Still wondering how Korea DPR🇰🇵 (North Korea) are in top10, while Australia ain’t there..

••• NFF give us those top20 teams for friendly games and I’m very much certain than not more than 5 can beat the SuperFalcons hands down.. Defensively we have improved a lot, Randy just need to find the best trio that work well for us upfront..! Especially at No.9 and Kanu’s Position… Use Friendly games to try One or two of this forwards.!

Game time

https://www.youtube.com/live/E1LG6y0Rz0g?si=i3bReISZNRoUGtzI

Nigeria 1-0 Liberia
Chidi Harmony goal

Your U-17 flamingos are Great I wish they can just go all the way to win the world cup and every other cup

We've been missing chances oh. Should be 4-0 right now

We just scored a clean goal that was called offsides

Not impressed. They are finding it difficult to string their passes, no fluidity in their game play.