Speaking from the Crowne Plaza World Trade Centre, Moscow, the morning after he landed in the Russian capital for the showpiece event, Rohr told thenff.com that there is no weak squad in the 32-team field, and anyone hoping to play so-called “average teams” in the group phase is only guilty of wishful thinking
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The 33-year-old, who plays in China for Shanghai Shenhua, has scored 16 goals in 39 appearances, with his last goal coming in Sunday’s 3-2 second leg win over SIPG to lead his team to the Chinese FA Cup title on the away goals rule
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said it was a great line-up featuring “legends from all of the former World Cup winning countries”
The Argentine Football Federation said in a statement that Aguero, who scored in the first half of the friendly, was taken away for routine examinations
The Super Eagles unbeaten run in World Cup qualifying has extended to 37 matches
The host had a late minute penalty to share the spoil
The 38-year-old has played for Inter, Milan and Juventus among others, and won the World Cup with Italy in 2006.
Messi will play Argentina’s first friendly match against Russia on November 11 in Moscow before flying back to Barcelona
Disu expressed his support in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria after reviewing the Eagles gaffer Rohr’s stance on the team’s goalkeeping situation
ISIS has also promised to “continue terrorising and ruining lives”, accompanied by an image of the World Cup trophy, in a hint that trouble can be expected in Russia next summer
The Russian government has increased the budget for the preparation and hosting of the 2018 FIFA World Cup by 34.5 billion rubles ($600 million) to 678.06 billion ($11 billion) in a second such raise since May, according to a newly released decree
Brazil was the first team to qualify for the tournament in Russia
Around 20,000 England fans are thought to be planning to travel out to follow the fortunes of the Three Lions next June and July, with Saint Petersburg likely to be the base for many.
The Minister reasoned that for any meaningful success to be recorded by Nigerian athletes at the world stage in a busy 2018 calendar, headlined by the Commonwealth Games, the FIFA World Cup and the FIBA World Cup for women in Spain, there must be adequate funding
The visitors went into the final match of the campaign in sixth place and outside the qualifying positions, and the prospect of failing to qualify for the biggest stage in football for the first time since 1970 became even more real when Ecuador took the lead inside the first minute
The pacy forward was injured on international duty with Senegal and his absence could not have come at a worse time as manager Jurgen Klopp looks to get their season back on track after an indifferent September
More than 80,000 supporters at Alexandria’s Borg El-Arab erupted into ecstasy when Salah broke the deadlock three minutes past the hour mark as Egypt looked close to realizing a long-held dream, having made the last of their two World Cup appearances 27 years ago in Italy
Onigbinde said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on the Super Eagles 1-0 defeat of Zambia’s Chipolopolo in a Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier in Uyo
In a release issued by Ayo Giwa, his Media Officer, Daniel commended the technical superiority of the national team and the spirit of patriotism exhibited by the players in qualifying the country for the soccer mundial the sixth time at the expense of the Chipolopolo of Zambia
Saraki and Dogara spoke in separate statements from their media offices