For the second time since they reached the final in Canada 2014, Nigeria’s Falconets failed to advance beyond the first knockout phase – the quarterfinals of the FIFA U20 Women’s Cup. Against popular predictions, the team crashed to The Netherlands 0-2 on Sunday (earlier hours of Monday back home). Nigeria had exited at the same stage in the last edition …

Nigeria’s U20 national female football team, the Falconets on Saturday became the 13th side to qualify for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in that category. Leading in the first leg 3-1, the squad added more pains to their Senegalese counterparts’ wound by winning 4-1 in Benin City in Africa’s final qualifying round. First leg heroine, Flourish Sebastine contributed two …