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Sunday Oliseh will be paid $30,000 for his part in Nigeria’s world cup qualifiers according to a report confirming payment of World Cup bonuses to the Super Eagles.

The Super Eagles have been paid their world cup match bonuses, over a week before their opening group match at the FIFA 2018 World Cup.

The Premier League and Football Association have announced that a winter break will be introduced in the top flight of English football from the 2019-20 campaign as confirmed by the Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn. The break will be staggered across two weeks, meaning that five matches will be played on one weekend and the other five the following weekend. As a result of the change to the Premier League calendar, FA Cup fifth-round matches will be played in midweek and replays scrapped entirely. ‘The hope is that players will be more mentally rested, which makes…

Argentina midfielder Manuel Lanzini has been ruled out of the World Cup after suffering a ruptured anterior knee ligament injury in training.

For 24 years Nigerians had pointed their fingers at Augustine Eguavoen as the major culprit for Nigeria’s ouster from the 1994 World Cup after the 2-1 defeat to eventual finalists, Italy, but the problem with the Super Eagles was even deeper.

You may think you’ve heard everything about Nigeria football, but, nothing prepares you for the bombshell former Super Eagles and 1996 Olympic gold medal winning Coach, Jo Bonfrere dropped.

John Ogu is confident the Super Eagles have a “fighting team” going to the World Cup and no opponent will write them off.

English Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers have sent birthday wishes to their Nigerian goalkeeper Carl Ikeme who turned 32 on Friday. The newly promoted EPL side sent the good wishes via their Social Media handle to celebrate Ikeme who is still undergoing treatment for acute leukemia. All at Wolves would like to wish the big man, @Carl_Ikeme, a very happy birthday. We hope you enjoy your day and can’t wait to see you again soon 👊🎁🐺 #TeamKemes pic.twitter.com/XKbiaefRks — Wolves (@Wolves) June 8, 2018 Ikeme was in goal for the Super Eagles in three of their 2018 World Cup qualifiers…

Former Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Johannes Bonfrere has predicted confidently that Argentina will overcome Nigeria in the summer FIFA World Cup holding in Russia. Speaking in a Lagos-based radio station, Bonfrere Jo said the Super Eagles should work towards winning their opening game against Croatia. “The first game is always the most important in every tournament” “If the Super Eagles can work on beating the Croatians, and moving on to defeat Iceland, then it will be an easy walk into the second round,” “I think Nigeria should forget about beating Argentina in the World Cup,” Jo stated confidently The former…

Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr wants his players to respond to the team’s poor showing in the pre-world cup friendlies with “Positive Anger” at the World Cup proper.