{"id":7636,"date":"2026-11-03T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/super-falcons-adegbuyi-akekoromowei-uzoma-nominated-for-2026-caf-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:31:15","slug":"super-falcons-adegbuyi-akekoromowei-uzoma-nominated-for-2026-caf-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/super-falcons-adegbuyi-akekoromowei-uzoma-nominated-for-2026-caf-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons, Adegbuyi, Akekoromowei, Uzoma Nominated For 2026 CAF Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons, Falconets duo Christiana Uzoma and Janet Akekoromowei as well as Flamingos star Oluwakemi Adegbuyi have been nominated in the women\u2019s category of the 2026 CAF Awards.<\/p>\n<p>CAF released the shortlists on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, ahead of the awards ceremony scheduled for Monday, December 7, 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons were nominated for the Women\u2019s National Team of the Year despite a disappointing 2026 WAFCON campaign where they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by eventual champions Cameroon (1-0) and failed to qualify for the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Uzoma, 17, was nominated in the Women\u2019s Goalkeeper of the Year category after starring for Edo Queens in the NWFL and WAFU-B Women\u2019s Champions League qualifiers and captained the Falconets at the FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup in Poland after regular captain Joy Igbokwe missed out on a visa.<\/p>\n<p>Her impressive performances for both club and country earned her a first senior Super Falcons call-up for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/super-falcons-drop-seven-places-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/\">Super Falcons Drop Seven Places In Latest FIFA Rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She faces competition from Cameroon\u2019s Michaely Bihina (Golden Glove winner at WAFCON 2026), Morocco\u2019s Khadija Er-Rmichi, South Africa\u2019s Andile Dlamini and Ghana\u2019s Cynthia Konlan.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Young Player of the Year category saw Nigeria get double nominations with Adegbuyi and Akekoromowei making the cut in the 10-player shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>FC Robo 16-year-old Adegbuyi won the 2025\/26 NWFL Player of the Season and Super Six MVP after scoring 11 goals. <\/p>\n<p>She was also MVP at the WAFU-B U-17 Girls Cup in Yamoussoukro and recently released from the Super Falcons camp to join the Flamingos for the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Akekoromowei, 18, of SL Benfica and Falconets goal-scoring sensation who now got called up for Super Falcons Olympic qualifiers vs Comoros.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be decided by votes from CAF Technical Committee, media and captains\/coaches.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>By James Agberebi <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons, Falconets duo Christiana Uzoma and Janet Akekoromowei as well as Flamingos star Oluwakemi Adegbuyi have been nominated in the women\u2019s category of the 2026 CAF Awards. CAF&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}