World champions France had eight players, one less than former holders Spain in international players’ association FIFPro’s 55-name shortlist for its World XI of 2018 award.
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Germany, 2014 world champions, crashed out of the World Cup in Russia in June at the group stage, their earliest exit in 80 years in the tournament.
Damilola Ayodeji, Information Officer of France Embassy to Nigeria, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja.
They will face a Germany team looking to recover from their humiliating early exit in Russia.
The Federal Government says it has entered into a new partnership with the governments of Niger, France and the United Kingdom to tackle cross border crimes.
Lloris, who won the World Cup with France last month, was stopped by police in central London in the early hours of Friday.
They thus secured a clash against Japan in the final match of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
In the semi-final match played at the Stade de la Rabine, the Young Nadeshiko scored through Riko Ueki and Jun Endo in an impressive first-half display.
Scores of French football fans queued on Friday to snap up the first of the new shirts carrying a second star to mark the national team’s 2018 FIFA World Cup win.
The Lagos State Government has signed a major agreement with an experienced international railway systems aggregator and rolling stocks manufacturer, Alstom SA of France, on the Lagos Rail Mass Transit project as part of efforts to rev up the multi-modal transport system in the State.
The men’s singles top seed at the 2018 ITTF Challenge Nigeria Open, Aruna Quadri, has been given the nod to be part of the top 20-man contingent listed by the ITTF for the 2018 Men’s World Cup holding in Paris, France.
The versatile, World Cup-winning France midfielder was presented by his new club on Monday afternoon in the auditorium of Atletico’s Wanda Metropolitano home.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, has boosted the Super Falconets with the sum of $7,000 (N2.5 million) ahead of the U20 FIFA Women World Cup in France.
Nneka Ikem-Anibeze, Dalung’s Special Assistant on Media, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja quoted Dalung as making the promise when he visited the national under-20 women team, the Falconets.
The 19-year-old was one of the stars of the show as France won the famous trophy for only the second time in their history.
The Manchester United manager wants the France midfielder to show the same focus and intensity at the Premier League club.
Mansur Abdullahi, the Falconets’ assistant coach, on Friday in Abuja said the team has been working towards winning the 2018 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in France.
The victory of a multicultural French team against Croatia in Sunday’s final in Moscow has reverberated across the globe.
In a new report, launched on Wednesday in Paris, France, at an event co-hosted with Coalition PLUS, UNAIDS warns that the global response to HIV is at a precarious point.
Rrump said: “First of all, Mr. President I’d like to congratulate you on a really great World Cup. One of the best ever from what everybody tells me and also for your team, itself, doing so well.”