The Super Eagles of Nigeria were on Tuesday beaten 2-0 by the Serbia national team in an international friendly played at the Hive Stadium in London. After recording a slim lone goal win over Poland in their last outing, the expectations were quite high that the Eagles could follow up with another win over Serbia. […]
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Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Friday demonstrated their intention to impress at the 2018 FIFA World Cup by defeating Poland 1-0 at the Stadion Miejski, Wroclaw. Victor Moses’ 61st minute penalty kick made the difference as the Eagles fought hard to earn a win over world number eight Poland. Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr had a […]
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The Super Eagles of Nigeria, on Tuesday defeated Argentina 4-2 in an international friendly match played in Krosnador, Russia. Argentina went two goals up through Sergio Aguero and Ever Banega before the Super Eagles staged a remarkable comeback. Kelechi Iheanacho goat a goal back for Nigeria, Alex Iwobi scored a brace and Brian Idowu scored […]
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The appeal committee of FIFA Friday overturned Lionel Messi’s four-match ban from international matches. The Argentinian captain had been banned for swearing at an assistant referee. The world governing body said there was not enough evidence to support the ban. “The FIFA Appeal Committee has upheld the appeal lodged by the Argentine Football Association, on […]
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Tottenham have confirmed that Erik Lamela has to undergo surgery on his hip and will be out for the rest of the season. The Argentine has not played for Spurs since an appearance in the EFL Cup defeat to Liverpool on October 25 last year. Now Tottenham have confirmed that the midfielder will not return […]
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Argentina forward, Lionel Messi, has been banned from their next four competitive internationals starting with Tuesday’s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier away to Bolivia. FIFA, the world football governing body, said on Tuesday that Messi was banned for “directing insulting words at an assistant referee” during Argentina’s 1-0 win over Chile on Friday. FIFA said […]
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Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona has been handed an ambassadorial role by the game’s global governing body FIFA. “Now it’s official,” the 1986 World Cup winner said on his Facebook page on Thursday. “Finally I can fulfil one of the lifelong dreams; to work for a clean and transparent FIFA alongside people who really love […]
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