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lovewins:
It isn't just a leadership issue, it's also a gender issue. I'm not one to pander to narrative but the facts objectively shows the women aren't being taken seriously.

The easiest way you know it has a gender slant is that this will never have happened to the men. Never.

CAF actually doesn't care and the pattern is clear. Always treating the women's game like they're doing them a favour.

This is becoming a dangerous pattern.

It makes you wonder: do women’s football development officials at CAF actually influence these decisions, or are they just expected to work around them?

Like, it’s difficult to fathom anyone who has the best interests of the women’s game can influence such a pattern.

Because if women’s football is truly a priority, what we’re seeing around WAFCON shouldn’t be normal.

2020 – WAFCON cancelled entirely.
2024 – WAFCON postponed to 2025.
2026 – WAFCON postponed again, from March to July.


Anyway this is an opportunity for players like Chioma Okafor, Uchenna Kanu, Nicole Payne and co to work their way back into the team and prove to the Coaches that they deserve to be there ahead of some names..!

This Should Be The Best Duos In Africa though..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqgOAX0Q6k?si=zJf1d575pduE7o_H

Both better than Barbra Banda??

Nigeria 🇳🇬 SuperFalcons fastest Fullback, was on the rise before the ACl injury.. Hopefully she gets good game time this season and also play her way back to the SuperFalcons.

Since she can play on both side she can deputize both Alozie and Plumptre. But again she has all it takes to start for the SuperFalcons..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgT9BAZG6k?si=1um7LTSSM6Q-_b4B

Schemerkhiz:
Nigeria 🇳🇬 SuperFalcons fastest Fullback, was on the rise before the ACl injury.. Hopefully she gets good game time this season and also play her way back to the SuperFalcons.

Since she can play on both side she can deputize both Alozie and Plumptre..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgT9BAZG6k?si=1um7LTSSM6Q-_b4B

Going to the WAFCON my pick for the defense should be…
1• Osinachi Ohale
2 Blessing Demehin
3• Michelle Alozie
4• Ashleigh Plumptre
5• Shukurat Oladipo
6• Chidinma Okeke
7• Nicole Payne

Considering each team are to go with 25-26 players, I will add between Sikiratu Isah and Rofiat Imuran..

Super Falcons forward Chinaza Uchendu scored a brace for her club Melbourne City Ladies..

She will a great addition to the Super Falcons

SolaFide:
Super Falcons forward Chinaza Uchendu scored a brace for her club Melbourne City Ladies..

She will a great addition to the Super Falcons

Good goals too 👏

Not the worst start but we have to do better defensively.

Nice to see India in Women's football. Manisha Kalyan seems like their biggest star.

MANISHA KALYAN WOW 🤯

A thunderous free kick clips the underside of the bar and bounces over the line. One of the goals of the tournament.

Watch every match from the #WAC2026 live and exclusive on Paramount+ 📺 #INDvTPE pic.twitter.com/7DhGqYo7Cq

— Paramount+ Australia (@ParamountPlusAU) March 10, 2026

So Toni Payne and Chiamaka Nnadozie are the only ones in WSL that is becoming hot cake each year? Where's Rofiat though? Is that the end of LCL or im in the dark or what? Yes the Mex and Us league dey but we should be having talents breaking through the WSL now.

Jennifer Echegini Brace⚽️⚽️ for PSG in the Coupe De france Feminine. Played all 90.
PSG won 2-1 vs Dijon W.

Rasheedat Ajibade played all 90 too.

TheSuperNerd:
Jennifer Echegini Brace⚽️⚽️ for PSG in the Coupe De france Feminine. Played all 90.
PSG won 2-1 vs Dijon W.

Rasheedat Ajibade played all 90 too.

Is this the game they played in Ivory Coast? Happy for the girls.

Nope. This was in Dijon. Coupe De france Quarter finals. Echegini just took PSG to the Semis.

lovewins:
Is this the game they played in Ivory Coast? Happy for the girls.

The dates for this year’s U-17 World Cup, to be hosted by Morocco, are now confirmed ✅

Also….

PDPGuy:
Also….

Fifa for just start with cadet teams. The reason being that it will increase the pool of coaches that will go on to swarm the senior stage one day.

For senior level, na who sabi pass suppose dey regardless of gender. Waldrum had a female assistant and i think they booted her.

For me, i sha want the ex-ints that are qualified to handle this team. We have 5 qualified ones. Th other issue is i expect them to also get jobs in other african countries as well. But.....


Las las, i no like like this idea for senior team level. The inference is counterproductive.

PDPGuy:
The dates for this year’s U-17 World Cup, to be hosted by Morocco, are now confirmed ✅

Hope this was not one of the cards morocco use sway caf to gift rob trophy for them sha.

Wafcon 2026

Player release date set for July 20th as the tournament begins July 26th though to August 16.

Fifa Women's Under 17 WWC to take place in Morocco 🇲🇦 from October 17 to November 7

daveP:
Hope this was not one of the cards morocco use sway caf to gift rob trophy for them sha.

Maybe

daveP:
Fifa for just start with cadet teams. The reason being that it will increase the pool of coaches that will go on to swarm the senior stage one day.

For senior level, na who sabi pass suppose dey regardless of gender. Waldrum had a female assistant and i think they booted her.

For me, i sha want the ex-ints that are qualified to handle this team. We have 5 qualified ones. Th other issue is i expect them to also get jobs in other african countries as well. But.....


Las las, i no like like this idea for senior team level. The inference is counterproductive.

One thing you must know is that those top Ex-internationals who are coaches won’t come over to stay in Nigeria 🇳🇬 just because of the Head Coaching job..

One reason Florence Omagbemi wasn’t reappointed before Thomas Dennerby took the job back then.

daveP:
Fifa for just start with cadet teams. The reason being that it will increase the pool of coaches that will go on to swarm the senior stage one day.

For senior level, na who sabi pass suppose dey regardless of gender. Waldrum had a female assistant and i think they booted her.

For me, i sha want the ex-ints that are qualified to handle this team. We have 5 qualified ones. Th other issue is i expect them to also get jobs in other african countries as well. But.....


Las las, i no like like this idea for senior team level. The inference is counterproductive.

Nigeria also have top Foreign Born female Coaches with UEFA Pro License and the highest level of coaching Badges from Europe & America..

[1•] Sade Ayinde is the Head Coach of the University at Albany (UAlbany) Women's Soccer program, leading a Division I team of college girls. She was named the 14th head coach in the program's history in February 2022, bringing extensive experience as a player and coach.

[2•] Helen Nkwocha UEFA License Coach

She became the first female coach of a top-flight men's team after taking charge of Tvoroyrar Boltfelag in Faroe Islands 🇫🇴. Nkwocha coached in England, China.

Schemerkhiz:
Nigeria also have top Foreign Born female Coaches with UEFA Pro License and the highest level of coaching Badges from Europe & America..

[1•] Sade Ayinde is the Head Coach of the University at Albany (UAlbany) Women's Soccer program, leading a Division I team of college girls. She was named the 14th head coach in the program's history in February 2022, bringing extensive experience as a player and coach.

[2•] Helen Nkwocha UEFA License Coach

She became the first female coach of a top-flight men's team after taking charge of Tvoroyrar Boltfelag in Faroe Islands 🇫🇴. Nkwocha coached in England, China.

Helen Lorraine Nkwocha, is currently based in New York as Director of Coaching and Head of Player Pathways. Her work focuses on developing players, especially those in the U12 to U17 age groups. she values the opportunity to collaborate with experienced coaches and am committed to continually improving my own skills and knowledge.

She holds the UEFA A Licence, the English FA Level, 2 Goalkeepers Licence, a Sporting Directorship Certification, and Youth Modules 1, 2 and 3.

Her coaching career has taken her across the
UK and internationally. In the UK, she have worked with Chelsea FC Foundation, Manchester United FC Soccer Schools, Arsenal FC
Development Centre, and Millwall Lionesses FC.
Overseas, She have held coaching and leadership roles in the Faroe Islands, California 🇺🇸, Iceland, and Shanghai 🇨🇳.

I don't understand why Deborah Abiodun is not a regular starter yet. It's not like their midfield is even good.

BascoVanVeli:
I don't understand why Deborah Abiodun is not a regular starter yet. It's not like their midfield is even good.

I think the Coach is having selection problems as he seems to prefer the 🇲🇽 lady Bernal ( who is Originally a Center Back) as a starter in midfield ahead of Abiodun, let’s just wait and see how it plays out as Abiodun is also coming back from a Knock one of the reason she missed the last International Window.

➖This might cause some problems for him. Abiodun is a Starter in that Defensive Midfield Position and Bernal is a CB he’s trying to please by starting her ahead of Abiodun as DM which is her alternate position...

➖USWNT 🇺🇸 Defensive Midfielder Andi Sullivan just returned from ACL injury and child birth.

➖Some Coaches sha, taking Silly risks, if she can’t bench the two Starting CB’s after returning from an injury why not bench her?

Any of you watching Orlando Prides 🆚 Denver Summit game?

I love how Ayo Oke matched Banda pace to pace in the last minute of the first half but was given a Yellow card as Banda went down which I’m pretty sure is not a Yellow..

Mistake from the referee.

Schemerkhiz:
I think the Coach is having selection problems as he seems to prefer the 🇲🇽 lady Bernal ( who is Originally a Center Back) as a starter in midfield ahead of Abiodun, let’s just wait and see how it plays out as Abiodun is also coming back from a Knock one of the reason she missed the last International Window.

➖This might cause some problems for him. Abiodun is a Starter in that Defensive Midfield Position and Bernal is a CB he’s trying to please by starting her ahead of Abiodun as DM which is her alternate position...

➖USWNT 🇺🇸 Defensive Midfielder Andi Sullivan just returned from ACL injury and child birth.

➖Some Coaches sha, taking Silly risks, if she can’t bench the two Starting CB’s after returning from an injury why not bench her?

Deborah should start over anyone not named Lacy Santos. Gonzalez is playing with fire because that Asian lady is not here to play. She wants the domination she has been paying for.

Schemerkhiz:
Any of you watching Orlando Prides 🆚 Denver Summit game?

I love how Ayo Oke matched Banda pace to pace in the last minute of the first half but was given a Yellow card as Banda went down which I’m pretty sure is not a Yellow..

Mistake from the referee.

Why is Nicole not in the squad? Is she not yet fit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQyJa6cR_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqOVB9VDmmY

Schemerkhiz:
Nigeria also have top Foreign Born female Coaches with UEFA Pro License and the highest level of coaching Badges from Europe & America..

[1•] Sade Ayinde is the Head Coach of the University at Albany (UAlbany) Women's Soccer program, leading a Division I team of college girls. She was named the 14th head coach in the program's history in February 2022, bringing extensive experience as a player and coach.

[2•] Helen Nkwocha UEFA License Coach

She became the first female coach of a top-flight men's team after taking charge of Tvoroyrar Boltfelag in Faroe Islands 🇫🇴. Nkwocha coached in England, China.

Is there a way you can do a thread and include all the female coaches home and abroad, with heavy CV to take over Nigeria female teams in the future? I've lost count. They're too much. It will be FrontPage worthy.

Schemerkhiz:
One thing you must know is that those top Ex-internationals who are coaches won’t come over to stay in Nigeria 🇳🇬 just because of the Head Coaching job..

One reason Florence Omagbemi wasn’t reappointed before Thomas Dennerby took the job back then.

Better working condition issue or just lack of foresight?

BascoVanVeli:
Why is Nicole not in the squad? Is she not yet fit?

I don’t think she’s fit yet… ACL wahala

Is better she doesn’t rush her way back ooh, that injury na Career killer oh.