The Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) has agreed to increase the number of clubs participating in the league from the 2025-26 season, Afrosport reports. The league body has concluded plans to increase the number of clubs from 16 to 20 teams. The NWFL announced this new development in a communique released after their Annual General Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday. The body stated that arrangements for...
Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini has refused to take credit for the development of Ademola Lookman at the club after he was crowned the 2024 African Player of the Year, Afrosport reports. The Nigerian forward took home the honours at the CAF Awards in Marrakesh on Monday night ahead of PSG's Achraf Hakimi and Serhou Guirassy. Lookman’s career resurgence has been largely attributed to Gasperini who...
Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman has admitted that winning the 2024 CAF Men’s Player of the Year is "something incredible", Afrosport reports. Lookman was honoured in the grand ceremony at Marrakech Morocco on Monday. The 27-year-old's season was summarised after his iconic performance that saw him net a hattrick when Atalanta thrashed Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in last season's Europa final in May at the Aviva Stadium Dublin,...
Super Falcons Goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie is feeling elated after winning the Women's Goalkeeper of the Year at the 2024 CAF awards ceremony on Monday, Afrosport reports. Nnadozie retained her title as the best female goalkeeper in Africa after beating Morocco’s Khadija Er-Rmichi and South Africa’s Andile Dlaminito to the individual award. The Nigeria international was celebrated in the grand ceremony in Marrakech, Morocco after the spectacular,...
The Nigerian duo of Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen have made the final shortlist for CAF Men’s Best XI of the Year, released at the 2024 CAF Awards in Marrakech, Morocco, on Monday. Lookman, who won the biggest prize of the awards after he was crowned the Men’s African Player of the Year, joins Osimhen, the 2023 recipient of the award, as the only Super Eagles...
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