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Emenike has seen positive signs in training ahead of Saturday’s clash in Cuiaba as Nigeria plots a much-needed victory

However, the Asian outfit were outstanding and well worthy of a point, which would have been a huge boost to their hopes of progressing to the knockout stages

Nigeria faces Bosnia and Herzegovina in their next Group F fixture on Saturday

Bosnia’s second match at the World Cup comes on Saturday against Nigeria in Curitiba

The African Champions take on Iran in their group opener in Brazil later this evening ahead of forthcoming meetings with former world champions, Argentina, and Bosnia-Herzegovina

The USA-born full-back believes that there is little to separate the three less-fancied teams in the group

The match was the first World Cup game at the Maracana since Brazil lost to Uruguay in the final round of the 1950 tournament, which remains a deep wound in Brazilian football history

Quiroz said the team was battle ready for the challenges in the preliminary stage of the Mundial and he was optimistic that his boys would shock the world

Queiroz, a former boss at Manchester United, said Iran’s aim was to capitalise on opportunities handed to them by opponents, who will all be tentative at the expectation they will down the group’s supposed easy beats

The Middlebrough loanee opined that the Brazil 2014 World Cup won’t be business as usual for Nigeria, boasting that the three-time African champions will be all out to redefine their fortune against South American heavyweights, Argentina, Iran and debutants Bosnia-Herzegovina

Rafiu Ladipo, the President-General of NFSSC, who made the demand in Abuja, appealed to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS to take the demand very seriously

Nigeria was again pitched against Argentina at the 2014 World Cup draws on Friday in Bahia, Brazil while Bosnia Hergovina and Iran will complete the teams in Group F of the Mundial

In other draws involving other African nations, Ghana faces a tough test of going through after being drawn against Germany, Portugal and USA

“FIFA wishes to celebrate the World Cup’s 100 years in Argentina and Uruguay, I can confirm that,” said Grondona, the Senior Vice-President of world soccer’s governing body

The Argentine legend also had his say on Lionel Messi, claiming that the Barcelona star has not reached his level just yet