Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Champions League: CAF Receives List of Two NWFL Clubs To Represent Nigeria


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    Champions League: CAF Receives List of Two NWFL Clubs To Represent Nigeria In WAFU B Qualifiers By Niyi Busari The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has forwarded the names of Rivers Angels of Port Harcourt and Delta Queens of Asaba as Nigeria's representatives in the eight Nations playoffs after the NFF got the bid to register a second team from WAFU. Champions and runners-up of the Nigeria Women Football League Super Six, Rivers Angels and Delta Queens will fly the country's flag in WAFU zone B qualifier of the maiden edition of the CAF women champions league billed for July 15 to 31 in Cote d' Ivoire. They are expected to slug it out with champions of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo and host Ivory coast in a play off that will produce the zone's sole representative in the tournament billed for Morocco later in the year Meanwhile, the two women clubs that came first and second in the Nigeria Women Football Super League have received the news with joy and have started strategizing on how to win the maiden CAF Women Champions league later this year Coach of Rivers Angels, Edwin Okon said that he has a team capable of qualifying from the playoffs and going ahead to win champions league proper adding that it won't be easy but it is do able "What we need is just a good preparation and a few players to beef up the team and we are ready to go. We want to be the first winners of the CAF women champions league and maintain Nigeria's dominance of Women Football in the continent" the former Super Falcons coach told Complete Sports.
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Niyi Busari

Award winning journalist, Niyi Busari, the Publisher and CEO of BSN Sports Concepts is one of the most celebrated Nigerian sports journalist of his generation. A"cross-over" professional, he combines the talents and abilities of a print and electronic journalist in a manner that is rare, even though his specialization is print. A graduate of Economics from the University of Abuja where he obtained his Bachelor Degree in 2015.

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