(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Nigeria’s Super Falcons on Saturday lost 0-4 to world champions U.S. in the opening game of their two-match tour. Nigeria in this match missed the services of midfielders Ngozi Okobi-Okoeghene, Halimatu Ayinde as well as captain Onome Ebi. However, some national under-20 team players were invited to join the squad. But this
We’ll start with a soccer story. Diego Valeri’s nine years in Portland were about much more than soccer, but this goal in March, 2013, all the way back at the beginning, is as natural an entry point as any. It was one of the first signs that Valeri was about to change the trajectory of Timbers soccer forever—that the club’s history was going to someday be divisible by "Before and After" Valeri eras. It was.
USSF has announced it will no longer pay the NWSL salaries of USWNT players as part of contract negotiations with the players’ union. This is a huge change for the NWSL, the players, and the federation.