Ifeoma Onumonu, the star of the Super Falcons, announced her retirement from the sport, ending a 10-year professional career in France, Nigeria, and France.
Onumonu praised her journey in a heartfelt statement that was posted on Instagram on Saturday, calling her retirement a “natural conclusion” to a lifelong discovery that began at the age of eight.
In her final years with a youth team called Magic in the United States, Onumonu wrote, “I bid farewell to my playing career on the pitch with a heart full of gratitude.”
At the nearby fields where I live, we played in white, black, and green jerseys. I can recall how vast the field seemed to be. I can’t recall whether I actually passed the ball or played a particular position.
I simply wanted to run as quickly as I could and win. I simply loved playing, not much about winning or losing.
The 31-year-old said that her lifelong passion for football culminated in unforgettable moments both on national and international platforms.
She continued, “I had the profound pleasure of lifting an NWSL championship trophy, representing Nigeria at the Olympics and a World Cup, and contributing to the African Cup of Nations trophy with the Super Falcons for a historic 10th time.
The American-born forward, who made her Super Falcons senior debut in 2021, was a member of the nation’s 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad and also represented the Super Falcons at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
She participated in the team’s record-extending 10th continental title, the women’s African Cup of Nations triumph in July 2025.
Although she was only allowed to play for 54 minutes in the group stage’s goalless draw against Algeria, she managed to remain one of the squad’s oldest players along with veterans Francisca Ordega and Osinachi Ohale.
Following Halimatu Ayinde’s resumption due to injury, she was upgraded from the alternates list and made the 2024 Olympic roster for Nigeria.
Before moving to France to play for Montpellier HSC, Onumonu started out playing for the Boston Breakers in the National Women’s Soccer League. She later played for the Portland Thorns, Reign FC, Utah Royals, and NJ/NY Gotham FC.
Before rejoicing allegiance to Nigeria, where she gained respect for her intelligent movement, composure, and work ethic, she was a graduate of the California Golden Bears’ collegiate program and represented the United States at the age of 23.
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Onumonu said in her reflections that retiring from football does not put an end to her involvement.
A new beginning is needed, not a final goodbye to football.
She stated, “I’m excited to use the skills and lessons I learned while playing on it to explore opportunities off the pitch.”
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Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne will appear in a new documentary the following week, and her love, devotion, and devotion to her husband come first.
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Sharon Osbourne’s “heartbreaking” pain and grief continues to go on after husband Ozzy’s death – as she thought they would be “free” after his final concert.
A new TV documentary on Paramount+ about Ozzy’s life and career reveals next week it was a “miracle” he even made final Villa Park Back To The Beginning show as he fought sepsis and pneumonia in the final months of his life.
Less than three months before he is scheduled to perform, he claims that the way he feels right now will be a miracle because his back is in a pretty bad shape and that he is in a lot of pain.
Sharon continues to speak to the cameras, “Ozzy’s life has just got a little worse every time we catch up.” Ozzy has a new illness that has affected him, and it has cracked his vertebrae, which has not been fixed. We are in April. They advised him to enter and have him filled, but after that, he spent two weeks in agony. He returned to the hospital with pneumonia. I have lost track of him while he was in the hospital three times, but they later discovered that he had contracted sepsis while he was there.
Ozzy jokes in his new memoir: “I had about as much chance of surviving a major sepsis infection as I did of winning the next season of Love Island.”
He did eventually make it over to the UK though after hiring a physio to help him improve his mobility. And the gig, masterminded by Sharon as the ultimate present for her husband, was meant to mark his retirement and the start of their new life together.
Days before the show, Ozzy said, “To be honest, I didn’t think I was going to make it.” Physically speaking, I don’t think I’ve come very far.
However, it’s brand-new for our partners. I’m looking forward to finishing this gig, hanging up my mic, and hanging out with you. We’ve never been free before, but we’re back after this performance.
Sharon responded, “Yes, we are free.” 5th of July, complete. I simply want a life. All I want to do is that. Find a small bubble somewhere where we can just be together, doing what we want to do.
Unfortunately, Ozzy and Sharon didn’t spend time together because he passed away almost immediately following his performance.
Kelly Osbourne, the film’s star, discusses her mother Sharon’s agony over helping him while performing painful operations on him while also mentioning Kelly’s daughter.
Kelly said: “I think what’s happening to my mum is the most heartbreaking part of this whole thing. And I think that watching the man that she loves most in this world wither is really, really hard.”
Sharon sobs as she says, “It’s hard on everyone and you feel like you put a clown’s face on and say everything’s going to be great,” when Ozzy was in pain. It’s not, either.
There is now uncertainty about whether Sharon stays in the UK alone at the Buckinghamshire mansion she has just renovated with the intention of living there with Ozzy, or returns to LA to be closer to her family. Son Jack Osbourne questioned the decision to move back in the new BBC documentary that went out earlier this week. It means she is a long way from her beloved grandchildren too, and could feel isolated.
Sharon’s world has been torn apart, according to one source, despite having a clear plan for what they would do and how they would pass the time together. It’s so sad. “
Just weeks after reuniting with his band for a farewell concert at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham, Ozzy passed away on July 22 from a reportedly heart attack.
I feel like I’m finally home, he had said in the lead-up to the show.
On October 7, the Paramount Documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now will be available.
Joe Clarke, the British kayak cross champion, won his fourth consecutive kayak cross world title in Australia, and Joe Clarke, the winner, declared he was “stuck for words.”
After winning a silver medal at the 2024 Games in Paris, the 32-year-old decided to stop playing the sport.
He claims he struggled to “find his feet” in the subsequent World Cup activities after missing the first few weeks of the season due to the birth of his second child.
Prior to the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Sydney, Clarke won silver in the men’s individual time trials and bronze in the team kayak, but he also showed his class in the kayak cross, continuing his remarkable run that he had already won three of the competition’s previous victories.
After winning silver at the last Olympics last year, it was a dream come here to defend that title, said Clarke, who came in ahead of French canoeist Matyas Novak and French canoeist Mathurin Madore in second place.
I’ve been working toward this because competing on the biggest stage of the Olympics is difficult, but I also took some time off afterward.
The second half of the season has kind of been about finding my feet, but it seems like I have finally found them.
How did David Bowie come up with the idea for the Aladdin Sane album cover photo, though, since this album artwork could be the priciest ever sold later this month?
It is perhaps the most iconic image of David Bowie as his stage alter ego Ziggy Stardust and has been described as the Mona Lisa of pop culture.
But as the original Aladdin Sane album cover photo – shot by fashion photographer Brian Duffy – prepares to be sold at auction, his son Chris has revealed how rock chameleon Bowie simply stole the idea for his famous lightening bolt from Elvis Presley and a 1970s kitchen cooking pot.
The groundbreaking photo could become the most expensive album artwork ever sold when it goes under the hammer later this month with an estimate of £300,000 – hoping to beat the record set by Led Zeppelin’s debut LP artwork, which sold for £240,000 in 2020.
However, Chris Duffy advises that music historians not to decipher Bowie’s “rock pioneer” legacy, which shows that he was merely a “music magpie” of his day who drew inspiration from his 20th-century heroes.
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In an exclusive interview, he told us: “Bowie always liked the Taking Care of Business (TCB) flash by Elvis and that evolved into his own lightening flash and became his motto. On the back of his private jet, Elvis had the TCB flash, and he had signed engagement rings with the flash that he had given his band. David adored that flash because he was obsessed with it.
” I also remember my dad was given a rice cooler one time by his mum. The pot had a blue and red flash on it, and it was made by National Panasonic. When my father showed that to David one day, he said, “Yeah, fantastic.”
The Aladdin Sane image leads the sale of the Duffy archive being sold as part of a global online auction by Bonhams from October 22. The wooden stool Bowie sat on for the 1973 Aladdin Sane album shoot, the original Hasselblad 500C camera, and a photo contact sheet from the session, one of only two of those items, are among the 35 items being sold.
Bowie’s full-length portrait of Aladdin Sane, which was the centerfold for the first 5, 000 records sold, is also up for grabs, with an estimated price of between £150 and £200,000. But although the album was groundbreaking for its day, spawning UK hit singles such as The Jean Genie and Drive in Saturday, Chris says the album title was not really Bowie’s idea either.
He told us: “I remember when dad was doing the shoot, he asked David what the album was to be called, and David replied” A Lad Insane”. This was interpreted by my father as “Aladin Sane.” He must have experienced a genie’s vision and the idea of rubbing an Aladdin’s lamp. All David gave him was a flash idea for the album so that was a quite difficult ask”.
Brian Duffy got his big break in the world of music photography after starting out as a freelance fashion artist for the magazine Harper’s Bazaar in 1955. He went on to work at British Vogue and with photographers David Bailey and Terrence Donovan – together they became known as the “terrible trio”, capturing London at its height as a cultural capital in the 1960s.
But in 1973 his career changed forever when he began an eight-year working relationship with Bowie. Duffy also photographed images for Bowie’s albums Lodger album in 1979, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) in 1980, and conducted a photo shoot on Bowie’s set of his debut film, The Man Who Fell To Earth, in 1976.
Chris claims that because they were rebels of their time, their relationship between their father and Bowie was outstanding. He said: “My father was very left wing. He had a brilliant mind and was an anarchist, which is why, in my opinion, he connected with David. You couldn’t really tell the difference between them because they were different from one another.
You must burn your bridges, according to your father, to advance. And David did that with Ziggy Stardust and so many other periods of his music. Thank goodness, nothing caught fire. Bowie’s career has evolved naturally over the past 50 years.
Chris, who continues to manage his dad’s photographic archive, remembers having a ring side seat when Bowie recorded Aladdin Sane. He states, “I was 17 when I was still residing at home.” Because he used to shoot a lot of bands at the time, my dad used to receive records each month.
“On a Sunday he had this ritual of playing records on his hi-fi and he had these big speakers in the living room. I was there one Sunday and thought, “Wow, who is that? ” It’s challenging because you’re naturally supposed to rebel when you like the same music as your parents. So I said to him” Who is that? “and he said,” David Bowie is the name of the artist. If you don’t scratch the record, you can borrow it.
” He then said, “I am shooting his new album cover next week. Do you wish to meet him?” I responded, “Yeah.” He said “Be at Trident Studios next Tuesday at 7pm”.
A few days later, Chris popped along to the studios in London’s thriving Soho district where he came face to face with Bowie and his Spiders from Mars group members Mick Ronson and drummer Woody Woodmansey. He claims, “I rang the bell and said, I’m here to meet Duffy,” and then left. David Bowie was present when the door opened. He looked me up and down and said” Who are you? Your father is a lunatic, he said when I told him I was Duffy’s son. “Come in”
Soon after, Chris found himself having intimate family dinners with Bowie who would often turn up at his home in true rock star fashion”. According to Chris, David used to come round and a limo would exit. He was always in a limited capacity, but he was such a nice guy.
“David was always interested in what you were doing and he wanted to know what you were up to. The same as my dad. However, David did that by identifying people to advance his agenda.
Chris also remembers the moment his dad garnered Bowie’s face with the infamous red and blue lightning flash when he joined the pair in the studio alongside make-up artist Pierre La Roche. He remembers: “The make-up artist drew a little flash on the side of Bowie’s cheek and dad said “No take that off”. He then got the lipstick from the artist’s box, drew it on his face and said “Fill that in. Aladdin Sane was born and the rest is history.”
Today, Chris says he is happy to sell some of his father’s archive at a time which has seen 90, 000 of Bowie’s possessions – including stage costumes and lyrics – take up permanent home at the new V&, A East Storehouse in Stratford, London. He says, “My dad and I started establishing the archive in 2006 to make sure that his legacy and his recognizable images were preserved and accessible.
“The exhibits sold at Bonhams have taken up residence in museums and galleries all over the world. At this key moment of recognition for the iconic Duffy/Bowie collaboration, I feel it’s right that a small but significant part of the Duffy archive collection is available for many to share in this legacy. I appreciate Bonhams for hosting the sale of his artwork, as well as their thoughtful treatment of his distinctive contribution to pop culture.
The Mona Lisa of Pop: The Duffy Archive will be on view in a free exhibition at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London from October 22 to November 5. For auction sale details visit www.bonhams.com
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