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Zambia’s Kundananji lifts the earnings power of Africa’s women footballers with a world record transfer fee

    By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency   Racheal Kundananji, a Zambian woman professional footballer, has become the first African football player -- male or female -- to break a world transfer record. This milestone reaffirms the growth of African women’s football, not only in skills and development but also in commercial terms. The forward from Spanish women’s league side Madrid CFF signed to California-based women’s soccer club Bay […]

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International clubs look to Africa for female football talent

    By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency Africa is growing into a critical supplier of professional female football talent to international clubs outside the continent, according to a new FIFA report. The ‘Global Transfer Report 2023’ released on January 30 by the international football governing body, FIFA, shows that Nigeria and Ghana produced among the highest number (in the top ten globally) of women players in the international transfer […]

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