FIFA has overlooked Nigerian referees as it named six African officials for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In addition there will also be 10 assistant referees from Africa. The referees are Abid Medhi (Algeria), Diedhiou Malang (Senegal), Gassama Bakary (Guinea), Grisha Ghead (Egypt), Sikawe Janny (Zambia) and Tessema Bamlak (Ethiopia). The assistant referees are […]
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Video assistant referee technology (VAR) will make its debut at the World Cup in Russia this summer despite lingering opposition from within and outside football, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Friday. “We are going to have in 2018, for the first time, a World Cup with VAR,” said Infantino after a meeting of the FIFA […]
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Enigmatic football manager and self-styled ‘Special One’ José Mourinho has become RT’s latest signing. He’ll offer his unique insight into the game for the channel’s FIFA 2018 World Cup Russia special coverage. Named FIFA World Coach of the Year in 2010, Mourinho boasts one of the most outstanding coaching resumes in world football. He will […]
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Barely 24 hours of resumption of sales of the 2018 FIFA World Cup tickets, a total of 1,318,109 tickets have been ordered. Ticket sales for the world football tournament in Russia resumed on Wednesday exclusively on FIFA website and the excitement sparked by Friday’s final draw brought another wave of worldwide interest. As the random […]
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The draw for the Russia 2018 World Cup has been concluded and Nigeria has once again been placed in the same group (Group D) with Argentina. Other countries in Group D are Iceland and Croatia. Nigeria first met Argentina at its first ever FIFA World Cup appearance in 1994, losing a tight game that ended […]
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World football governing body, FIFA, on Thursday, November 16, 2017, announced the pots for the 2018 World Cup draw on its website. In the publication, Nigeria is placed in Pot 4, which means it will not play any of the countries in that pot. Pot 1: has Russia, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Poland, and France. […]
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“We’re Italy and if we qualify it will be by playing football,” coach Gian Piero Ventura insisted on Sunday on the eve of a crunch World Cup play-off against Sweden in Milan. Four-time world champions Italy need to overturn a 1-0 first-leg defeat to avoid missing out on the World Cup for the first time […]
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