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For a football-loving country like Nigeria, exiting the on-going FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia at the group.... Read more via The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2lIxPXL Get More Nigeria Sports News

Former Ivory Coast striker, Didier Drogba, says African football has suffered a “big step back”, after Senegal’s exit sealed the continent’s worst World Cup showing for 36 years. Senegal became the first team in World Cup history, to go out on the fair play rule after losing … read more via...

Senegal have been eliminated from the World Cup in one of the harshest ways possible – and BBC commentator Mark Lawrenson is unimpressed. Aliou Cisse’s team finished with the same... Read more via Daily Mail – https://ift.tt/2Kwudmr Get More Nigeria Sports News

Tunisia's Fakhreddine Ben Youssef made history as he scored the 2500th goal in World Cup finals history with his goal against Panama Tunisia were never going to be favourites.. Read more via Goal.com News – https://ift.tt/2lFrhck Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Three Lions and Red Devils will face off on Thursday knowing that whoever emerges victorious in the game will top Group G en route to the last 16 Belgium and England head into their... Read more via Goal.com News – https://ift.tt/2MvbEzG Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, on Wednesday said Nigeria’s 1-2 loss to Argentina as due to poor technical competence of the technical crew of the Super Eagles. The minister, who led Federal Government’s delegation to cheer... Read more via BusinessDay News –...

Match-winner Marcos Rojo has revealed Lionel Messi led Argentina’s last-gasp World Cup victory over Nigeria — not coach Jorge Sampaoli. The Barcelona superstar joined forces with... Read more via Mirror – https://ift.tt/2lzi6Ky Get More Nigeria Sports News

Brazil eased into the World Cup knockout stages after defeating Serbia 2-0 here Wednesday, with superstar Neymar sparkling in a win which sets up a last 16 clash against Mexico. Paulinho put Brazil ahead with a superb... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2N1xWdk Get More...

For 90 minutes, Switzerland and Costa Rica exchanged scoring opportunities, frisky attacks, and countless missed chances at Nizhny Novgorod Stadium... Read more via CBSSports News – https://ift.tt/2tAKro3 Get More Nigeria Sports News

DIEGO MARADONA has said that a wine binge sparked his dramatic collapse – but fans are convinced the Argentina legend is back on cocaine as new images emerged. The World Cup winner claims he "drank all the wine" in... Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2tItojd Get More Nigeria...

Mats Hummels said defending champions Germany’s group stage exit from the World Cup finals for the first time since 1938 was a “bitter” shock for the team. The Germans’ 2-0 defeat to South Korea... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2KqGUPI Get More Nigeria Sports News

MESUT OZIL clashes with furious Germany fans after the defending champions crash out of the World Cup at the group stage. South Korea stunned Joachim Low’s side 2-0 while... Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2yO8IvV Get More Nigeria Sports News

Defending World Cup Champions Germany suffered a humiliating exit from Russia 2018 after finishing bottom of Group F. Germany finished bottom in the... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2yOPUMZ Get More Nigeria Sports News

With Switzerland drawing their opening game 1-1 with Brazil, Serbia sit atop Group C heading into the second round of fixtures after their 1-0 victory against Costa Rica. Each … read more via Goal.com News – International – https://ift.tt/2K1idNo Get More Nigeria Sports News

China-based forward Odion Ighalo is not happy playing as a lone striker in Nigeria’s coach Gernot Rohr’s preferred 3-2-3-1 formation and he allegedly wants showdown talks with his German boss. Ighalo has taken loads of stick (stick uncountable) for his below-par performance in the Super …...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A taxi drove into a crowd of people near Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, injuring seven people including Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup, Russian officials and eyewitnesses said. A damaged taxi, which ran into a crowd of … Read more via More Top Stories –...

Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, is banking on history to see the Super Eagles get at least a point against Croatia, in their first Group D fixture of the 2018 World Cup. Atiku said the Eagles have never lost their first game at the World Cup and … read more via Daily Post...

Denmark began their World Cup campaign with a hard-fought victory against a Peru side that had earlier missed a penalty. The South Americans were awarded a spot-kick after consultation....... read more via BBC – https://ift.tt/2LWAqZa Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Manchester United midfielder insists he is not thinking about a transfer, and is solely focusing on the World Cup with France Paul Pogba has dismissed reports linking him with a return to Juventus from Manchester United . Pogba scored a deflected winning goal in France’s … read more...

(Reuters) - Spain's strong show of unity after the sacking of coach Julen Lopetegui was almost enough to secure victory in their World Cup opener against Portugal on Friday, but Cristiano Ronaldo's late goal took some gloss off a superb performance. With new manager Fernando Hierro urging ...