Chiamaka Nnadozie has been nominated for the prestigious Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper 2025 Award, reports Completesports.com.
Nnadozie will battle Hannah Hampton, Ann-Katrin Berger, Cata Coll, Christiane Endler, Anna Moorhouse, and Phallon Tullis-Joyce for the award.
The Nigeria international has enjoyed a stellar year at both club, and international level.
The shot stopper helped her former club, Paris FC win the Coupe de Feminine in May.
The 24-year-old made two superb saves in the
shootout, with Paris FC ending their 20-year wait for a silverware after a 5-4 victory.
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On international scene, Nnadozie played a major role in Nigeria’s triumph at 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.
The former Rivers Angels star kept four clean sheets, and was named Goalkeeper of the Tournament.
Nnadozie was among the nominees for the inaugural Women’s Yachine Trophy.
She has also been nominated for the CAF Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year.
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2025 will honour outstanding individuals and teams in the sport.
Voting is open to coaches, captains, media representatives, and fans registered on FIFA.com until November 28, 2025.
By Adeboye Amosu
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NFF, NFF, NFF, how many times did I call you?
What kind of organization are you?
Ghana’s Black queens are playing England in a friendly on December 2nd – one month away.
What have you planned for the super falcons?
Mali, Cameroon, Egypt and Cote d’ivoire have just been given the remaining slots for the 16 teams WAFCON next year.
This is why I never support having local coaches for the falcons. They can’t compel NFF, who they always kowtow, to fix grade A friendlies for the team.
WAFCON henceforth will no longer have fewer pretenders to the throne anymore but real threats with 15 other nations going forward.
And this cup will be on the line every 24 months so any nation that chooses to balkanize or not have succession plan for their aging players and carry unintelligent, bribe giving, agent-facilitated players for their cadet teams will have a hard time challenging for trophies in subsequent WAFCON championships.
Ghana carried a largely youthful squad and got bronze last July. Now, they are getting exposed to the European back to back champions and NFF is pretending the hedge of falcons hasn’t broken.
Dey play. Definitely, other nations will play friendlies also but who is planning falcons’? Madugu? Eguavoen? Gusau?
To hell with NFF, really because if (not when) they wake from their slumber, they might look around for a very weak opponent to deceive themselves they are preparing the women.
May this NFF not happen to Nigerian football again.
Make I no con be sympathizer wey dey weep more than the bereaved.
They can bury our women’s football for all I care
After all, we can’t even win wafu B competitions again.
Thank God for CAF who hasn’t prepared formal women’s u17 and u20 cups. We fit no even qualify in the first place
Now, the target is to crumble falcons with the illpreparation that blighted the younger teams.
Tor. Winning WAFCON might not be our birthright after all. Haven’t we won it enough sef?
@Sly, this right here is one of the biggest problems we hardly talk about in Nigerian football. The Super Falcons are winning, and everyone claps. But the moment they struggle, we turn into overnight analysts and critics — forgetting that you can’t reap where you didn’t prepare. How can a team that’s preparing for a major tournament not play friendly matches before the tournamentcommences ? That’s not just negligence; it’s madness dressed in agbada.
I’ve never seen a more unserious football administration than this current NFF under Gusau. These guys make the old “Ibrahim Galadima era” look like Harvard management school. Remember 2023? The Falcons didn’t play even one friendly weeks to the World Cup — they literally flew straight from camp to the tournament venue. No test game, no match fitness check, nothing. Yet somehow, the team still performed well — not because of NFF, but in spite of them.
And it’s still happening again. The NFF has failed to use any FIFA window this year for friendlies, while the Super Eagles have used some — and would’ve used even the November window if not for the World Cup playoffs. Colombia and Venezuela were already lined up. Why this lopsided treatment? What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander, abi?
When Michelle Alozie spoke up about unequal treatment, NFF quickly issued a damage-control statement. When Coach Randy Waldrum complained about lack of friendly matches in 2023— how funds meant for wc preparation vanished into thin air — that loudmouthed Olajire and his clique came out breathing fire, attacking him like he insulted their ancestors. They nearly sacked the man if not for the World Cup being too close and the players standing by him.
These people have no vision, no shame, and no respect for the women’s game. And it’s showing again. Against Benin, I wasn’t impressed — the Falcons looked rusty, disjointed, and tactically unsure. But no one said anything about this because we won. Success has a way of shielding inadequacies from being talked about. But it was obvious our girls were not spectacular in those matches, even though they did enough to secure that WAFCON ticket. That’s what happens when you starve a team of competitive games. How do you build chemistry and rhythm when every FIFA window it’s some furnace of fire?
Next year’s WAFCON won’t be a walk in the park — it’s tougher now, especially with the added World Cup qualification incentive. We barely survived 2022, finishing fourth. If this unseriousness continues, it might even be harder to win the title or even qualify for the World cup. Remember, Cameroon and Ivory Coast are back, increasing the competitiveness of the tournament.
The NFF should be ashamed. They’re killing women’s football softly, one skipped FIFA window at a time. And when failure comes, they’ll be the first to call for “rebuilding.” No — the rebuilding should start with the NFF packing their bags and walking away *in peace.*
Thank you, Papafem. There is only one reason for the lopsided falcons decision I can conjecture.
Before today, nobody would have thought the super Eagles would use the “best four losers” slot to reach the world cup that FIFA expanded from 5 to 9 that should come from Africa for the first time ever and Nigeria didn’t come out through “first flight”.
Now that the added three games (hopefully) signal a longer and more testy route for qualification, in the 2030 qualifiers, even NFF and the players will beg each other to become very serious from day 1.
How does it concern the Falcons?
Granted, the four semifinalists qualify automatically for Brazil 2027.
However, 2 of THE BEST LOSING QUARTERFINALISTS (lol) qualify for intercontinental playoffs in December 2026 and if they win against the other confederations, qualify for another playoff in February 2027.
In fact, the first playoff is very tricky. Wiki writes:
“First phase: The first phase of the inter-confederation play-offs will consist of 6 teams – two each from AFC and CAF, one from OFC, and the lower-ranked team from CONMEBOL according to the FIFA Women’s World Ranking – competing at a CENTRALIZED venue in November – December 2026. The TOP TWO TEAMS from this phase will ADVANCE to the second phase.”
If 6 teams play each other for only the top 2 to proceed further, it means it’s NOT JUST ONE OR even TWO MATCHES that will be played to determine the 2 progressors.
More matches.
And with what caf did in completing the remaining slots for WAFCON next year by selecting the four highest-ranked teams based on the FIFA Women’s World Ranking among those eliminated in the final qualifying round, maybe we might just proceed to the first playoffs if we were knocked out in the quarters yet are the highest ranked African team.
What is sauce for the Super Eagles is sauce for the Super Falcons.
Only top 2 in each of the 4 groups proceed to the quarters of WAFCON next year since there’s no more best third place spots anymore.
Like I earlier wrote sir, winning WAFCON isn’t even our birthright jare. Let’s let other nations win oh.
Next year (not world cup year 2027),
Plumptre and Esther Okoronkwo (monkey post undecided babes) will be 28 and 29 years old respectively
Alozie – 29
Oshoala – 32
Ordega – 33
Ihezuo – 29
Omorinsola Babajide – 28
Uchenna Kanu – 29
Tony Payne – 31
Ayinde – 31
Ohale – 34
Those are who Madugu mostly sticks with today.
What chances do we have to stand out in 2027 world cup when North Korea for example has just reached another under 17 wwc final and we are expected to exceed our 2023 world cup standard in 2027 carrying “old women” against youthful teams?
Madugu has not blooded one young player in his squad since he has been in charge; all Waldrum girls.
My pain is Chioma Okafor. Her Malawi nation she rejected for Nigeria is in next year’s WAFCON. Irony.
She’s neither in falcons squad nor in ….
The less said about Gift Monday or Joy Omewa or even Edna Imade and other great players scattered around the world, the better.
When will those players tap from the knowledge of these aging but highly experienced players, if not friendlies that Madugu can’t force NFF to fix from time to time?
Spanish coach Vilda of Morocco, Ghana’s Swedish coach Kim Lars Bjorkegren, even Swiss coach Nora Häuptle of Zambia are not sleeping but planning to outwit us to the throne.
Instead of us to be far ahead by now and compete even on higher stakes, we are giving the vibe of “we have won it enough”.
Zambia and Morocco used largely home based players to prosecute WAFCON 2024 and someone here was celebrating we dismantled both of them with our largely foreign based players.
I laughed.
It’s the same largely home based players Vilda for example staggered series of camping exercises this year to instill his methods.
Because of flight ticket costs, NFF hasn’t planned friendlies nor had reasoned camping for falcons and we say we have the advantage.
We have won WAFCON enough. Let us let Ellis’s South Africa and the rest of the continent dream on to displace us jor.