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isan:
Was whyte not the No1 goalkeeper for AWCON 2016 or Alaba Jonathan ?

Alaba Jonathan

AkinDS:
Whyte was rather poor today. Truth is, she was never really tested in the group stage and her weaknesses were exposed in the Semis and Final. She has proven that she is certainly not it.
In a sense, its a good thing this happened now, prior to the CL proper in Egypt.
I also understand Osun Babes keeper, Christiana Obia, has been signed by Rivers Angels and would hopefully, take over the GK position.

Mercy Vincent and Christiana Obia should be given a chance, too much sentiment from Okon..
That's was how Whyte was made to keep at the U20 Women World Cup in Japan back in 2012 even when we had better options like Chioma Nwankwo in the team, I know the number of times she almost gave me heart attack with her errors if not for our good Defence..

AkinDS:
She's playing like she is 40.
Quite heavy in size and not agile, especially on high balls.

There are two other younger Goalkeeper in the team Mercy Vincent and Christiana Obia who have grown from the Nigerian U17 set up down to the U20...

It's high time he gives this younger Lad chances and let the heavy Whyte go...

They have experience having played for the Nigeria U17- U20.. if they're not good I don't think they would have been with the age grade teams.

AkinDS:
3-1.
Another error from Whyte.
Flubbed on a cross into the box. Cleared intially by the defense, but then long range shot caught her flat footed.
The Ghanaian keeper is miles better than her.
I'm sorry, this lady is done. Coach needs to sub her out. ASAP!

Same thing Okon did while he was the Coach of the Superfalcons, tried every means to make Whyte first choice ahead of veteran Precious Dede then but didn't work out...

Abeg make Okon and e sentiment get out

AkinDS:
2-1 Hassaccas.
The Ghanaians are playing Rivers Angels hard and taking no prisoners.
Weak point for Nigeria has been the Goal Keeper, Ibube Whyte. Age has most certainly caught up with her. Her reaction time to shots has always been suspect, but was really exposed today. She seems to struggle with high balls.
Okon needs to consider the other girl he brought in after Whyte conceded the penalty against Amis du Monde in the semis.
She seems to be more agile and can handle crosses better than Whyte.

Ibubeleye Whyte is just 29yrs old...

Monkey no fine but e Mama like am..

AkinDS:
2-1 Hassaccas.
The Ghanaians are playing Rivers Angels hard and taking no prisoners.
Weak point for Nigeria has been the Goal Keeper, Ibube Whyte. Age has most certainly caught up with her. Her reaction time to shots has always been suspect, but was really exposed today. She seems to struggle with high balls.
Okon needs to consider the other girl he brought in after Whyte conceded the penalty against Amis du Monde in the semis.
She seems to be more agile and can handle crosses better than Whyte.

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Aisha Buhari Cup: Dates adjusted as participating teams get invitation letter
5th August 2021

The date for the Inaugural Aisha Buhari Invitation Tournament has been adjusted to take place from September 13 to 21, 2021.

This was confirmed in an invitation letter sent to the General Secretary of participating countries signed by the Director of Organisation and Chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL), Aisha Falode on August 4, 2021.

“On behalf of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation NFF, Amaju Pinnick and Chairman
Organising Committee Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, we have the pleasure to update you on our
Secretary General’s invitation of 13 April 2021 to the Senior National women’s team to the Six-Nation Invitational Tournament (Aisha Buhari Cup) in Lagos, Nigeria.” The letter read.


The tournament which has host Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Cameroon, and South Africa will be held in Lagos,
from 13 – 21 September 2021. The date according to the letter has been slightly adjusted.

Competing teams comprising of 30 delegations are expected to arrive in Lagos for the tournament on September 10, 2021, after the processing of their visas and COVID-19 tests.

It is the maiden edition of the event aimed at promoting the women’s game on the continent by multiplying the number of events women’s national selection participate in.

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isan:
Even the official list the 2 of them wont make it

Roosa Ariyo club UDG Tenerife is one of the top 6 Club in Spain for over 3years now, I believe with the quality in the team should be better herself there and also be able to earn a regular spot in the National Team...

Coach Randy is the Listening and understanding type of coach who's always ready to give each players chances to prove themselves... About 98% of the players have been given the opportunity to prove themselves except the home base which I'm pretty sure he's going to give more chance when the WAFU Cup comes up because most times it's Played out of the FIFA Free Window and 99% of the Foreign based aren't available but Nigeria mostly make do with the Home Based Player's.. here the likes of Vivian Ikechukwu, Demehin, Monday Gift and Co can take their Chance

marvin906:
Why, unless the club doesn't release them

As far it's a FIFA Women's International Window, No Club have a right to hold on to a player except there's a mutual agreement between the National Team and the Clubside involved due to how important the game is to either side...

By the way, the Clubside decision is more important and highly respected because that's where each players get their regular wages/Salary from except for the USWNT...

PDPGuy:
At 25, she would have been a good option for the SF. But since she is now into coaching, I’m not sure if she will have the fitness to play in a game

I Swear, the moment I discovered she has retired and now into coaching i weak ... I think she needs to come out of retirement go into Pro....

She's a National Team Material.. She used to be a good Basketballer too with her excellent range on crosses, tremendous hands.






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAK5GuyKYI

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

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.

Superb Goalie Chiamaka Nnadozie

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

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...

Excellent performance from 20yrs old Maryann Ezenagu..

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

Could she be the new Stella Mbachu??

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

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

Roosa Ariyo

Glory Ogbonna in Action for her club

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...

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

isan:
She a young player so she's still developing but you clearly over hype her a lot she's just a bench player for the super falcons

No overhype
Rinsola is a very good Forward/Midfielder but right now I will put it to you that Uchenna Kanu is ahead of Babajide in this pecking order. Kanu a better goalscorer, assist.. Both do share similar qualities like the Pace, Strength and Skills, team play likewise...

Don't worry have got her and Ashleigh game's to cover up this season in the WSL including Midfielder Elisha Sulola of Charlton Athletic Women in the Championship. Her performance would definitely bring her in..

isan:
Orji and umotong are not world beaters they can be dropped easily and when scouting for the team do u always look out for best interest of players already in the team or you just recommend a better player when you see one ?

Sorry no, as far she's a Nigerian and of good quality and would bring in a lot of improvement, I would always recommend them..

AkinDS:
Wouldn't even think twice about dumping Orji and Umotong for Rinsola. Plays for a much more competitive league than those two and she has much greater upswing - those two ladies are closer to 30 than 20. Rinsola is 23 and is a MUCH better player than those 2. Willing to bet that she would compete for a start in the SF lineup, above your favorite, Uchenna Kanu.

Don't even go there (Uchenna Kanu)
Have been following up with her games for long but still haven't seen what really impressed you in her game..

No problem let's see how she perform for Brighton this season in the WSL before I can make any move..

As for Uchenna Kanu, please don't go there..!

BascoVanVeli:
Abeg bring back Ugo Njoku. I would rather her to be a right back but what I saw today proves u can't hide class. Baby girl still got it.

Ugo Njoku is no longer the Ugo Njoku of those days, The Pace is no longer there to meet up with the demands of playing at the right back, she can't be defensively minded at all times, we need a Lucy Bronze kind of a full back which i can see in Patricia George and Michelle Alozie...

Right now Alozie is giving Okeke a tough time for who's going to own that spot. Let us allow this Ladies enjoy their time..

It's only Alozie who's strange to that full back Position unlike George who's an all round player just like America Crystal Dunn..

PDPGuy:
Sounds like the home-based players are still afflicted with the disease of lack of football intelligence. Smh.
From the updates on the Rivers Angels game, here, I think it’s safe to say Waldrum would only consider inviting the talented midfielder and one or two of the wingers

Vivian Ikechukwu and Ezenagu did well from the wing, but the team still lack the basis..
Most of the Rivers Angels players have trained and played with the youth setup (Flamingoes, Super Falconets) I'm still wondering why they keep repeating same cheap mistakes..
Ogebe who i thought would have been the Key in the Forward line acted off a lot with her silly decisions after playing in Serbia and Spain and also with the Superfalcons, what did she really learn from playing in Europe?? Maybe I should say it's one of her bad days...

isan:
Forget njoku and tell the coach about rinsola babajide

Our Forward line is already looking so bulky, who's she going to bench? Considering playing from the left side on most occasions.
And again few of our Strikers (Oparanozie, Orji, Umotong) had returned to the team with Randy having a great time to look at them..


Ifeoma Onumonu is there too on Randy's plan who can fit in any position upfront, on a good day she's a could trouble any Solid Defence line..

AkinDS:
Its more of the Nigerian girls making the same mistake, trying to dribble around the keeper instead of making a square pass to a team mate. The keeper is already off her line and committed. Pass the freaking ball!!!

With this their selfish play, it would affect them against a decent team, they can't just pass to a better positioned teammate in front of goal..

CoolJulian:
Where una dey watch, sef?

The Link is there on my post