A record audience of more than 3.5 billion people watched this year’s World Cup in Russia, with the final between France and Croatia attracting 1.12 billion viewers, world soccer’s governing body said on Friday.
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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 Wolverhampton Wanderers goal tender took to his Twitter handle @carl_Ikeme to share his good news.
The former Liverpool player took to social media on Sunday morning in the wake of Nigeria’s opening day loss to Croatia at the Kaliningrad Stadium.
Bewarang gave the advice on Wednesday in Abuja while reacting to the Super Eagles 0-1 loss to the Czech Republic national team in pre-World Cup friendly match.
He had fractured a metatarsal and sprained his ankle playing for Paris St Germain in a French league match against Olympique de Marseille.
The Chelsea FC ace has also handed big kudos to the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, and his team for changing the administrative game for the better, through developing a special relationship with the players, keeping its word at every turn and attracting global attention to the Nigeria game through deft moves in a number of areas.
Dalung, represented by Esther Aluko, a ministry official, expressed the optimism at a seminar organised by the Sun Newspaper with theme: “Super Eagles May Excel in Russia and Beyond” at Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt.
The 77-year-old three-time World Cup winner, an ambassador for the annual Rio de Janeiro football championship, was unable to award the trophy to winners Botafogo
Enrico, who came into the Nigeria senior team’s mix ahead of the B squad’s 2018 African Nations Championship qualifying fixture against Benin Republic six months ago, arrived in Spain penultimate weekend
He, therefore, called on Nigerians to give the team all the support they would need for a successful campaign in Russia.
Ikpea made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos while reviewing the club’s preparations for the World Cup holding from June.
Ex-Eagles, Sylvanus Okpala and Joseph Dosu, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos in separate interviews that the team would do well, irrespective of the group the Eagles would eventually find themselves in.
Nigeria topped group b with 14 points to qualify for the World Cup. Other countries in the group, tagged the group of death are, Algeria, Cameroon, and Zambia.
The NFF president said the country was well positioned now after it had overcome the challenges that bedeviled the nation’s football, particularly the previous year.
Having accumulated points in the World Cup qualifier against Cameroon and Zambia, Nigeria would retain its place as the fifth best on the continent, while Argentina would be seeded as fifth best team in the world.
Moses and Abdullahi played significant roles in Nigeria’s qualification on MatchDay 5 of the Russia 2018 World Cup.
The governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Abdulwahab Oba, on Sunday in Ilorin, said the Super Eagles’ qualification has once more demonstrated the nation’s strength in football, which made Nigeria the first African country to qualify for the FIFA mundial in Russia.
It was not until after the break – and a switch to a 4-2-3-1 formation from three at the back – that the Gunners were able to display the dominance expected of them in their first season outside of the Champions League in 19 years
Nigeria leads the group tagged “group of death’’ with 10 points from four matches, followed by Zambia with seven points.