Yoruba Football Federation

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Yorùbá Football Federation
October, 2020
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Yorùbá Leopard
AssociationYoruba Football Federation
ConfederationConIFA
Sub-confederationConIFA Africa
Home stadiumOnikan Stadium
FIFA codeYOR
First colours
Second colours

Yorùbá Football Federation[1] was founded as a football organization playing for the Yorùbá[2] people internationally. It serve as banner to let people know about the Yorùbá people worldwide as a sovereign region. The organization was admitted[3] into second world organization[4] organizing a football cup aside from FIFA the CONIFA Confederation of independent football association in October, 2020.[5] The Football Federation is not a member of FIFA, CAF and WAFU therefore it can't play any games organised by the organization.

Association officials[]

Name Position
Yoruba flag 2.jpg President

History[]

The Yoruba Football Federation (YFF) came into existence 1 September 2020 with grounds at Onikan Stadium Yorubaland.  The Yoruba are a great footballing nation both as players and supporters, the presence of YFF allows the Yoruba to grow and celebrate its own.

The Yoruba players of note are: Players like Teslim "Thunder" Balogun, who the Lagos State stadium at Surulere, Lagos, is named after, was a foremost striker renowned for his thunderous shots that could literally rip open the opponent's nets. Olusegun Odegbami, popularly called "Mathematical" was the calculative right winger whose terrific and sublime goals won the 1982 Africa Cup of Nations for the Nigeria. He was simply incredible! Then came Rashidi Yekini, the king of goals, aptly called "Yeking, the Goalador". He just couldn't stop scoring! He scored Nigeria's first FIFA World Cup goal. His amazing exploits remain unbeatable till today, as he still holds Nigeria's highest goal scorer's title, many years after his untimely demise.  Many other wonderful, celebrated heroes of Yoruba origin have great stories told about them and their exploits in the round leather game. Players like Muda Lawal, Mutiu Adepoju, Yisa Sofoluwe (who recently passed on) Samuel Ojebode, Obafemi Martins etc. In addition, the Yoruba has produced fantastic coaches like Adegboye Onigbinde, Kasimawo Laloko and Tunde Disu, Yemi Tella, Fatai Amao, among many others.

In October 2020 the Yoruba Football Federation was admitted into the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA).  CONIFA is the football federations for all associations outside of FIFA.  The Yoruba have always been a strong football nation, but have never had the opportunity to assemble a wholly Yoruba team to compete with other emerging nations until the age of CONIFA.  With the coming of the CONIFA World Cup, many talents are waiting to be discovered and nurtured from streets, fields and sports arenas all over Yorubaland.[6]

Yoruba people is planning to go for the first CONIFA Africa Football Cup that will come up in Zanzibar in November and also in the CONIFA World Football Cup.[7][8][9][10]

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Yoruba Flag

The official colours of the Yorùbá Football Federation are green, red, black and white, like the Yoruba Flag.

The meaning of our shirt colours is as follows: Red represents the blood of the martyrs shed in the various struggle of the Yoruba wars from ancient history, through the Fulani invasions to the Operation Wetie, the Agbekoya revolt and the June 12 uprising, among others. Black represents the colour of the black man's skin. The Yoruba represent the largest collection of any ethnic group of the black race anywhere in the world. We are the shining beacon for all black people all over the world.  

References[]

  1. ^ "Ilana Omo Oodua Takes Yoruba Football to CONIFA World Cup!". Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  2. ^ "ILANA OMO OODUA TAKES YORUBA FOOTBALL TO CONIFA WORLD CUP! – Ìlànà Ọmọ Oòduà". Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  3. ^ Cañete, Daniel (2020-11-11). "FUTBOL NO FIFA - Daniel Cañete: Biafra y Yoruba nuevos miembros de CONIFA - Biafra and Yoruba new members of CONIFA". FUTBOL NO FIFA - Daniel Cañete. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  4. ^ "Yoruba Nation And Its Alliance In Nigeria Under NINAS". NaijaWorld. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  5. ^ "Yoruba". CONIFA. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  6. ^ "Yoruba". CONIFA. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  7. ^ Zanzibar, Mwajuma Juma in (2021-04-29). "Tanzania: Conifa Football Tournament Postponed to August". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  8. ^ Utomo, Ario Bimo (2019-04-08). "The Paradiplomatic Role of the ConIFA in Promoting Self-Determination of Marginalised Entities". Jurnal Global & Strategis. 13 (1): 25. doi:10.20473/jgs.13.1.2019.25-36. ISSN 2442-9600.
  9. ^ Fair, Laura (2001). Pastimes and Politics : Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-4093-3. OCLC 649929751.
  10. ^ "Home". CONIFA. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
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