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Dream Stars Ladies Unveils New Manager

Dream Stars Ladies Unveils Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu as Head Coach Dream Stars Ladies of Lagos have unveiled Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu as the new Head Coach ahead of  the 2018/2019 Nigeria Women Premier League season. The newly promoted Lagos based team have finalized the appointment of the widely travelled Enugu born coach. Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu is an experienced coach with an impressive CV, he has had stints with  FC Talanta Kenya, Heegan FC Somali, FIN FA Enugu, FIN Angels, Ambassador Child Youth Club /Angels Enugu. Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu was nominated and recognized by Arsenal FC/ WorldRemit amongst the best 25 Youth coaches across Africa in a pool of over 700 coaches. He is also a CAF License C holder. Dream Stars Ladies Chairman, Mr AbdulRahmon Abolore said the club opted for Felix Ifeanyi Nwosu because of his wealth of experience and he is confident that the former Gor Mahia defender can help the club achieve its objectives. "Our aim is to make the best out of our prom...

New league, old habit

It is often said that old habits doesn't quit itself. The new Nigeria Professional Football League season is undoubtedly taking a queue from last season's malaise that plaque the league. A wide range of attacks and assault were carried out on league officiating officers last season by ever growingly home fans across the match venues last season and it was expected, this season, the trend will abated. Despite stern warning by the League Management Company at the commencement of the season that any waring club that is caught in the hub of carrying out infringements on the league referees shall face full length of sanction, alas, just match Day 3 into the new season, the league have already recorded some cases of assault on referees. Re-occurring decimal. Last season, Sunshine stars fans attacked and brutally injured match officials after a goaless duel between Sunshine stars and Kano Pillars in Akure. The home crowd descended on the officials after centre referee sounde...

Hon. Tajudeen Ajide inspires Dream Stars Ladies, as they Secure Promotion to NWPL

Dream Stars Ladies of Lagos have secured promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League after finishing top of Group B at the Benin center of the Pro-League playoff. Hon. Tajudeen Ajide, Chairman Surulere Local Government Dream Stars Ladies defeated Police Ladies Machine in the first match 1-0 before confirming their place in the NWPL with another 1-0 victory against Moje Queens to finish top of Group B. Dream Stars Ladies Captain, Judith Nwaogu expressed her excitement after leading the team to the NWPL describing it as a dream. Meanwhile, Dream Stars Ladies Chairman, AbdulRahmon Abolore has congratulated the players, coaching crew and everybody connected to the club for gaining promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League. Mr. Abolore also urged the Ladies not to be complacent imploring them to work harder in other to give a good account of themselves in the NWPL. The Chairman also reserved special praise for Surulere Local Government Chairman, Hon. Tajudeen Aj...

Dream Stars Ladies Secures Promotion to NWPL

Dream Stars Ladies of Lagos have secured promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League after finishing top of Group B at the Benin center of the Pro-League playoff.         Dream Stars Ladies Dream Stars Ladies defeated Police Ladies Machine in the first match 1-0 before confirming their place in the NWPL with another 1-0 victory against Moje Queens to finish top of Group B. Dream Stars Ladies Captain, Judith Nwaogu expressed her excitement after leading the team to the NWPL describing it as a dream. Meanwhile, Dream Stars Ladies Chairman, AbdulRahmon Abolore has congratulated the players, coaching crew and everybody connected to the club for gaining promotion to the Nigeria Women Premier League. Dream Stars Ladies secured promotion to the NWPL at the expense of  Police Machine of Akwa Ibom and Moje Queens of Kwara. Dream Stars players, coaching crew and Chairman Mr. Abolore also urged the Ladies not to be complacent imploring them to work hard...

FALCONS QUEST TO CONQUER AFRICA AGAIN

The Super Falcons of Nigeria will today begin their title defence of the Africa Women Cup of Nations trophy they won two years ago in Cameroon. They will open their account against the Banyana Banyana of South Africa in the opening Group B of  the ongoing Total 2018 AWCON in Cape Coast, Ghana. Much has changed since the last time Falcons won the Championship 2 years ago, Florence Omagbemi, who guided the team to their 10th titles, had her contract unrenewed after the expiration of her current contract which hitherto left the team without a head coach for over a year before the appointment of Swede's Thomas Dennerby as the team head coach in January by the NFF. The team was hastily assembled in February to play a Grade A friendly match against France which resulted in the French team whitewashing Falcons 8-0. The team remained inactive for further four months until few days to the qualifying match against Gambia which they won comfortably with 7-0 aggregate score to qualify for t...

2019 AFCON TICKET SECURED

Super Eagles of Nigeria secured their qualification ticket for Next year Africa Cup of Nations after a stalemate encounter against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa on Saturday's afternoon at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. The much anticipated match which has many undertones for both sides was marred by questionable calls by the ref in either side of the halves but Eagles' ensured they reclaim their berth in the newly expanded format of the biannual Continental football tournament with a game to spare in the qualifying series, after missing out on two consecutive editions. The match started on a brighter note for the 3 times African champions as Bordeaux outfit striker Samuel Kalu forced the onrushing Bafana Bafana's defender Buhle Mkhwanazi to an own goal inside the opening 10minutes of the match. In the absence of the regular starters, Odion Ighalo, Wilfred Ndidi and Francis Uzoho,  coach Gernot Rohr adopted 3-5-2 formation allowing Jamilu Collins to initiate and sup...

EAGLES EYE QUALIFICATIONS IN JO'BURG

It was a thrilling and exciting 4 days of training and synergy boding for the Super Eagles players at Stephen Keshi's stadium in Asaba as Gernot Rohr put the necessary cross and final dots to the preparations for the epic showdown against Bafana Bafana of South Africa billed for this weekend. The German tactician who was forced to make a substitutions call-up for two of his most consistence players in recent time was optimistic the team is ready to face any challenges in South Africa as they depart for Johannesburg on Thursday night. Odion Ighalo who has been in prolific form lately, scoring 20+ goals for Changchun Yatai F.C. this season was reportedly injured after his last time outing for the Chinese club. The injury trend wasn't limited to the Eagles' striker alone as goalkeeper Francis Uzoho was equally forced to withdraw his invitation for the AFCON 2019 qualifier match due to injury sustained while in action for his LA Liga Segunda club Elche CF. Meanwhile, Wi...