Having watched Rivers Angels play in two games so far, I'll say they still retain that raw Nigerian style of female football seen mostly in our age group teams (u17 and u20) and in the super falcons of 2014 under local coaches like Edwin Okon.
I used to think our league have now become totally dead, but Rivers Angels still play a robust style of football (even though we can say the oppositions are somewhat weak).

Ebere Orji plays for IFK Kalmar in Sweden, Ini plays for FA Championship team Lewes. I would rank the level of competition in both leagues as similar.
Rinsola just moved to the Barclays WSL - Brighton & Hove Albion (6th last season), which as far as I am concerned, considering the calibre of world class players currently in the Barclay WSL is, comparatively, a much more competitive one.
Ebere is 28, Ini is 27 and Rinsola just turned 23.
You will concede that Ebere and Ini have pretty much maxed out at their respective career peaks, while Rinsola is on the ascendancy.
What accomplishments have Ebere and Ini have? Please enlighten me.
And your assertion that Uchenna and Ini are 'clearly better than her' is debatable. HIGHLY debatable.

CoolJulian:


Sorry, which "more competitive league" does Rinsola play in? How is she a better player than the duo? Could you, please, roll out her accomplishments? What's the age difference between her and Ini Umotong?.. Just say, you like her, okay? For your information, Umotong and Uchenna are clearly better than her, as for Orji, I don't know.

Yes. Saiki is playing well, no doubt.
But the person that really caught my eye in the midfield, for her bulldog type tenacity and her box-to-box work was Deborah Abiodun #9.
A bit rough around the edges but she is young, sharp, quick and skillful on the ball. She may be groomed as a defensive midfielder and possibly a future replacement for Rita Chikwelu - their playing styles are quite similar.
She played as a CM for Rivers Angels and was pretty much everywhere on the pitch.

Schemerkhiz:

Are you seeing the job Mary Saiki is doing in the Midfield??
#No.4

AkinDS:
Vivian IS already a part of Waldrum's group. She played in the Summer series here in the US and featured against Jamaica (started) and Portugal (came in as a sub).
Herself and Demehin were intentionally left out of the Austria SF camp because of the WAFU B CL commitment with Rivers Angels.

Ok thanks

AkinDS:
Ebere Orji plays for IFK Kalmar in Sweden, Ini plays for FA Championship team Lewes. I would rank the level of competition in both leagues as similar.
Rinsola just moved to the Barclays WSL - Brighton & Hove Albion (6th last season), which as far as I am concerned, considering the calibre of world class players currently in the Barclay WSL is, comparatively, a much more competitive one.
Ebere is 28, Ini is 27 and Rinsola just turned 23.
You will concede that Ebere and Ini have pretty much maxed out at their respective career peaks, while Rinsola is on the ascendancy.
What accomplishments have Ebere and Ini have? Please enlighten me.
And your assertion that Uchenna and Ini are 'clearly better than her' is debatable. HIGHLY debatable.

'Just moved'... And you think I'd take you seriously?... And it's even a team where Ini has played for seasons, while being a top player, and having personally left to play in Sweden. When Rinsola played in the championship, what did she achieve? Do you have an idea that Ini has been player of the season both in the Championship and on her team( yeah, she was very dominant at the Championship) before she went on to play at the WSL, where she was also very conspicuous? You state the championship where Ini played last season as a reason to discredit her, don't you know she only went there from her Swedish club because of academic purposes?

What is wrong with a player being 27years old, abeg? When did they become too old? Is it automatically going to make a 23year old player better than them? Bro, Ini's statistics/accomplishments at both the championship and WSL trump Rinsola's... You may want to counter that... I wait! As for Uchenna Kanu, comparing her with Rinsola... No! You are the only one doing this, Uchenna, who is building a great profile for herself, is much better than her.

Nnadozie in action as Paris FC beat US Orléans 3nil..

Sweden are the best Women’s team in the world right now!!
I can’t see past them winning the gold

PDPGuy:
Sweden are the best Women’s team in the world right now!!
I can’t see past them winning the gold

It's difficult to defeat a team that's well organized and knows themselves very well...

I think Rivers Angels will play this World Friends in the semifinal.

Glory Ogbonna in Action for her club

Roosa Ariyo

Onumonu with the equalizer as Gotham FC hold Houston Dash to a (1-1) draw

Between Patricia George and Alozie Michelle who's going to be the Superfalcons Crystal Dunn and Lucy Bronze... Playing different positions for both Club and Country...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCOslDMa8E



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMnRgr2_lA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrfL2q0zJHQ

my mock list of 21 players for Aisha/buhari tournament

Goalkeepers
Nnadozie
Oluehi
Okeke

Defenders
Zogg
Ebi
Ogbonna
Alozie
Demehin
Plumptre
Ohale
Nicole payne

mildfielders
Okobi
Payne
Chikwelu
Regina otu
Deborah abiodun

Attackers/strikers
Oshoala
Ajibade
Oparanozie
KANU
Vivian ikechukwu

The Ghanaian club are in front.

All things equal Rivers Angels will play a rematch against the Ghanaian club in the final.

Onyinyechi Zogg is tensioning the internet

isan:
my mock list of 21 players for Aisha/buhari tournament

Goalkeepers
Nnadozie
Oluehi
Okeke

Defenders
Zogg
Ebi
Ogbonna
Alozie
Demehin
Plumptre
Ohale
Nicole payne

mildfielders
Okobi
Payne
Chikwelu
Regina otu
Deborah abiodun

Attackers/strikers
Oshoala
Ajibade
Oparanozie
KANU
Vivian ikechukwu

Nice one. I laughed so hard here when I saw Zogg as your first defender .

Under no logical permutations should that have occurred other than a special interest .

Rivers Angels qualify for the first ever CAF Champions League

Excellent performance from 20yrs old Maryann Ezenagu..

5goals in 3games
3 consecutive Woman of the match..

Could she be the new Stella Mbachu??

She had to be first

JohnBullMySon:
Nice one. I laughed so hard here when I saw Zogg as your first defender .

Under no logical permutations should that have occurred other than a special interest .

Schemerkhiz:
Excellent performance from 20yrs old Maryann Ezenagu..

5goals in 3games
3 consecutive Woman of the match..

Could she be the new Stella Mbachu??

The lady is good. With the women's champions league coming up later in the year, she will get more exposure and will leave next season

The Rivers Angels highlights against Amis du Monde of Togo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWz-jgeXSCo

Schemerkhiz:
Excellent performance from 20yrs old Maryann Ezenagu..

5goals in 3games
3 consecutive Woman of the match..

Could she be the new Stella Mbachu??

20 years old

isan:
my mock list of 21 players for Aisha/buhari tournament

Goalkeepers
Nnadozie
Oluehi
Okeke

Defenders
Zogg
Ebi
Ogbonna
Alozie
Demehin
Plumptre
Ohale
Nicole payne

mildfielders
Okobi
Payne
Chikwelu
Regina otu
Deborah abiodun

Attackers/strikers
Oshoala
Ajibade
Oparanozie
KANU
Vivian ikechukwu

Where is onumonu and rosa

Even the official list the 2 of them wont make it

marvin906:




Where is onumonu and rosa

marvin906:




Where is onumonu and rosa

Ifeoma Onumonu for sure is one of Coach Randy Waldrum regular pick when it comes to picking Strikers for the Superfalcons...

She will always make the team, she was not released by Gotham FC for the Austra Camp because she's a their Key Striker upfront and with the absence of Carly Lloyd and Co for the Olympic you don't expect the club to release her when they have game's to play... Even during FIFA Women's World Cup the NWSL doesn't go on break.....

Ifeoma Onumonu can play any position upfront, she's fast, strong, skillful and a good Finisher...

Aisha Buhari Women's Football Invitational Tournament:
6 Teams, 2 Venues, One City.

One of the Stadium that would be hosting the Aisha Buhari invitational tournament (6 Nations Tournament) by September....


The Mobolaji Johnson Stadium ( Onikan ) Lagos in all majestic splendour has a capacity of 10,000

Superb Goalie Chiamaka Nnadozie

Schemerkhiz:



Ifeoma Onumonu for sure is one of Coach Randy Waldrum regular pick when it comes to picking Strikers for the Superfalcons...

She will always make the team, she was not released by Gotham FC for the Austra Camp because she's a their Key Striker upfront and with the absence of Carly Lloyd and Co for the Olympic you don't expect the club to release her when they have game's to play... Even during FIFA Women's World Cup the NWSL doesn't go on break.....

Ifeoma Onumonu can play any position upfront, she's fast, strong, skillful and a good Finisher...

You are right.

DAMALLSVENSKAN
Once the home of Marta & Christen Press: How Sweden’s Damallsvenskan became a NXGN hub
Ameé Ruszkai
Women's Football Correspondent
03/08/2021

Sweden once boasted the world's best players, including USWNT icons. Its clubs were among Europe's best. But its identity has changed so much since

Sweden may not be the first country you think of when you think of football, but for a long time, it was the place to be in the women’s game.

As well as the country’s own top talent, from Hanna Ljungberg to Therese Sjogran, Brazil’s Marta, widely considered the greatest player of all time, called the Scandinavian nation her home for almost 11 years. A whole host of the U.S. women's national team's World Cup winners have graced the Damallsvenskan, Sweden’s top flight, too – Hope Solo, Christen Press and Meghan Klingenberg among them.

At this point, its clubs were at the forefront in Europe. Umea were “the Galacticos of women’s football”, reaching the final of the UEFA Women’s Cup, now known as the UEFA Women’s Champions League, five times between 2002 and 2008, winning back-to-back titles in 2003 and 2004. Djurgarden also reached the final in 2005.

“I was a former player. I played at the highest league on the men's side in Sweden and we were never close to the ambition, the attitude and the professionalism they had," Andree Jeglertz, head coach of Umea from 2004 to 2008, tells Goal of his Champions League-winning team.

He recalls the memory of Marta flying to the north of Sweden to sign, her plane landing in half a metre of snow, and the massive buzz around the city because of the team's success. There were big names elsewhere too – Formiga, another Brazilian sensation, played at Malmo with Sjogran.

“It was, of course, great to have all these big players around you,” Sjogran, 214 times a Sweden international and a World Cup finalist in 2003, says. “But I also think we got a little bit spoiled, you know?

"I don't think we really took advantage of having them here, not in marketing or to bring in bigger sponsors or stuff like that. We just had them and then, it's over.”

Players first started to leave in 2009, as Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), the new league in the United States, launched. Umea lost Marta and Ramona Bachmann, among others, and the club was plunged into financial trouble.

“One year, suddenly the best players left and then you couldn't get the same sponsors anymore, the spectator amount wasn't the same. A lot of things were changing, just because you lost your best player,” Jeglertz, who also left after the 2008 season, says.

However, WPS would be short-lived, folding in 2012. Suddenly all eyes were on Sweden again, with the battle for supremacy primarily fought between Rosengard and Tyreso.

Tyreso boasted a star-studded squad, featuring Marta, Sweden icon Caroline Seger, Spain midfielder Vero Boquete, Klingenberg and Press, among others. In 2014, they reached the Champions League final, losing 4-3 to Wolfsburg in one of the competition’s greatest ever games.

But, again, financial problems would hit. The club withdrew from the Damallsvenskan season shortly afterwards and wouldn't be rebooted until 2017, playing in the third tier. The dynamic of the league has since changed a lot.

Michael Kallback started working as an agent in 2013, beginning to represent female players a year later, inspired by the birth of his daughter. His clients include star names such as Denmark’s Nadia Nadim and Bayern Munich’s Swedish duo Hanna Glas and Sofia Jakobsson.


“Five or six years ago, [players] would probably have made a transfer within Sweden to a bigger club. Now, you see players from other clubs leaving and going straight out to Europe,” he tells Goal.

“I see it as a good sign that players can go from not only the best clubs in Sweden, but from all clubs, abroad. At the same time, it's a complex situation for Swedish football.”

The Damallsvenskan remains one of the best leagues in Europe, even if the names in the league aren’t as headline-grabbing as Marta or Press, but its role has become more development-focused.

In that sense, it is arguably the best on the continent, producing players such as Hanna Bennison, Goal’s 2021 NXGN winner, or helping to progress the careers of superstars such as Pernille Harder, the 2020 Goal 50 winner.

“When we look at players now, we also look at young players from abroad that see us as the next step,” Sjogran, who has been sporting director of Rosengard since 2015, says. “Before, it was obvious that we were the next step, but now we are just trying to find our place in the food chain.

“We can still compete with the best teams in Europe. We played Bayern Munich in the Champions League this spring. They won, but we could still compete – but, financially, we can't. We are struggling a little bit with our own identity."


“It's a very good window for young players,” Kallback says. “You see players coming here from different countries also. You see Jelena Cankovic at Rosengard – before she was in Sweden, nobody knew about her. Now, she's one of the best players in the league.

“When you speak to clubs all over Europe, they're appreciating the Swedish league, because it is competitive, and it's easier for clubs to pick players from the Swedish league because of the finances.

“I see the same kind of pattern that we've seen on the men's side for many decades. Victor Lindelof went to Portugal and then, he went to Manchester United. It's a good window."

There are several things Swedish clubs are doing in order to conquer the challenges this role presents. The first is the continued development of the youth systems, which have always been fruitful.

Jeglertz joined Damallsvenskan club Linkoping as head coach earlier this year and cites their “sustainable” long-term vision as a very attractive factor.

“We are just in the beginning of developing [our youth academy],” he says. “Youth is a key thing for us, especially when we talk about how we can, in the future, sell players and bring them from our own academies.”

"I have probably never seen such a great talent" - Sweden captain Caroline Seger �

Technique, physicality and an eye for goal - Hanna Bennison has it all ⭐

The scouting has developed massively too, with Sweden benefiting from their attention to those countries in Europe that bigger leagues may ignore.

“I know that the top leagues don't scout that much in these kinds of countries, like Serbia for example, because they think that the league isn't competitive at all, so the players actually have to go somewhere," Kallback explains.

"It doesn't necessarily have to be Sweden, but that's a good road for the players to take, and they know that if they do well, they will be spotted.”

With Sweden regularly targeted for its best players, it’s been important for clubs to change their approach to contracts, too.

“We want to sign longer contracts for sure, because then a bigger club is going to have to buy the player,” Sjogran explains.

“When we first started with female athletes, you rarely signed a contract more than one year,” Kallback adds. “Now, I haven't spoken to a club in Sweden that wants to sign a one-year contract with any player for like three years.”

The manner in which the league loses many of its players, with transfer fees still very small in the women's game, does present its own challenges.

“You have a very good team one year and the year after, three or four players leave and then suddenly, 'well, what happens now?' I still see that happen," Jeglertz explains. “Even if you sell them, it's not the figures that it should be. It is getting better, but it takes too long a time.".


However, with Sjogran now believing the league is more secure than ever, Jeglertz does see huge improvements since he was last in the Damallsvenskan, over 10 years ago.

“Today, we don't have the best players in the league, but we have better coaches, we have better structure in all teams, better identity for each team, we give young players more possibilities to play and there is an idea in each club of how they would like to play and what they would like to do," Jeglertz says

“That wasn't the case earlier because then it was just about winning every day. The identity of each club is stronger today than it was. I think that is a key thing.

“And there cannot just be 18-year-old players here. We need to have some older players also that still have their passion. We still need these high-class players because those are the ones that are going to take us to compete in Europe.”

For all of the changes in Sweden, some things remain the same. The country is still a contender at international level, heading to the Olympics this summer having won a silver medal in 2016 and finished third at the 2019 World Cup.


Sjogran believes it’s “crucial” for Swedish players to go abroad, such is the benefit to their development and, as a result, the national team, but the Damallsvenskan still has a big part to play, with nine of the 22 players on Peter Gerhardsson’s Olympic roster for this summer playing their football at home.

The demand for Swedish players is just another reason to be proud, with Barcelona, Chelsea, Juventus, Bayern and more represented in that squad.

Should they deliver another medal in Tokyo, a realistic aim with the quality on show, the Damallsvenskan will have more than played its role, helping to shape the career of every single player involved.

she probably would have been in the National set right now...
25yrs old American based Goalkeeper..