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Nigeria Defeat Guinea As IHF Trophy Africa Continental Phase Begins In Ivory Coast

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Nigeria's under 18 girls handball team had to dig deep to earn their first victory over Guinea 30-25 at the IHF Trophy Africa Continental Phase which commenced on Tuesday. The team led by Coach Shittu Adewunmi Agboola met a strong opposition in Guinea who came out to tactically disrupt the team flow with some major turnovers but it was still an end to end affair in the first half which ended 13-13. The second half saw Nigeria become purposeful and making use of the wings and 9 meters as well as better defence. These tactical changes by Coach Agboola helped Nigeria to win 30-25. Nigeria will play Madagascar in their next match on Wednesday at 5pm Nigeria time. Madagascar had earlier lost their opening match against Rwanda 45-20.

Super Falcons Impressive Run At The Ongoing FIFA Women's World Cup Excites FIFA Secretary General, Fatma Samoura.

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By Admin FIFA Secretary-General Fatma Samoura has poured encomiums on the Super Falcons for their transcendental  feat, after the team advanced to the second round of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup ongoing in Australia and New Zealand.  The most successful women football team in Africa qualified through to the last sixteen of the biggest women football tournament, after they picked a point from their last group game against Ireland on Monday evening in Brisbane. An elated Samoura noted that the Super Falcons' achievement at the mundial has brought about huge pride for women's football, Nigeria and Africa as a whole.  Present at the visitation was Former CAF Media Committee Member and present NFF Executive Member Aisha Falode, who introduced the FIFA General Secretary to the players, Head of Nigerian Delegation and First-Vice President of the NFF, Felix Anyasi-Agwu, Babagana Kalli, Inuwa Shariff and RT. Hon. Margaret Icheen, all Executive Members of the NFF an...