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FIFA should if possible increase the size of the football World Cup in Qatar in 2022 to 48 from 32 teams, the global governing body’s president Gianni Infantino has said. Last month, Infantino said a majority of national football federations were in favour of expanding the tournament and a decision was expected ahead of the qualifying draw in March. Infantino, …

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Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Thursday dropped by one spot to 41st position in the new ranking formula adopted by World football governing body, FIFA. In the ranking table published on FIFA website, Nigeria garnered 613 points in August, placing it sixth on the continental stage behind Senegal, Congo DR, Ghana, Morocco and Cameroon. Nigeria also tied with Russia. On the global scene, …

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President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chris Giwa, has said that FIFA, the world soccer governing body, has not communicated its threat to ban the NFF. “The alleged FIFA ban threat is a creation of the media. FIFA has not written to lodge any complaint with us. We only read all these things in the media,” Giwa told the News Agency of …

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  The Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped nine places in the latest FIFA ranking to occupy the 50th position globally. Nigeria’s latest position is coming despite defeating Argentina 4-2 in an international friendly in Krasnodar, Russia. The Nigerian senior national team had played a 1-1 draw against Algeria in their last World Cup qualifying encounter and a formality game …

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Nigeria moved up to the 41st position in the World and retained the fifth in Africa in the latest FIFA Coca-Cola world rankings. The rankings released by the World Football governing body showed that Nigeria moved up three places from the 44th position in September, but maintained the fifth spot in Africa. It said that Nigeria had 721 points compared …

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Dayo Emmanuel Former Attorney General of Lagos State and ex-Chair of the state’s Independent Electoral Commission, Justice Ayotunde Phillip, has been appointed into the newly-constituted FIFA Ethics Committee. The appointment took place at the Congress of the world football governing body taking place in Manama, Bahrain. Phillip, 68 was the fourth female Chief Judge of Lagos State. She studied Law …

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Africa could have as many as 10 teams competing at the 2026 World Cup after the allocation for places at the expanded 48-nation competition was ratified by the FIFA Council during their meeting in Bahrain, ESPN reports. Africa is guaranteed nine places, up from the current five, while a 10th nation will enter a six-team play-off tournament to decide the final two …

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  The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been enlisted on the Premium Services of the world governing body, FIFA DTMS (Domestic Transfer Matching System) and Intermediary Regulations Tool, spokesman of the Federation, Ademola Olajire has confirmed through a statement. According to the statement issued yesterday in Abuja, the NFF had become the first governing body of the game on the …

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  Nigerian international and 23 year old midfielder, Ogenyi Eddy Onazi has disclosed that if not for football, he would have been a gospel artiste. Onazi who recently moved to Turkey from Lazio FC of Italy declared his love for music while he disclosed the secret behind the customised Bible verse on his boots. “Well, if I don’t play football, …

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