Benin manager Gernot Rohr has named a 25-player squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against Nigeria and Rwanda. The squad includes star players such as Steve Mounie, Tosin Aiyegun, Junior Olaitan and Youssouf Assogba while Rohr has given first time call ups to Karim Rahman, Romaric Amoussou and Samson Akinyoola. The Ceetahs will play Rwanda at the Stade Felix Houphouet Boigny in Abidjan on...
Super Eagles head coach, Finidi George, on Friday, announced his 23-man star-studded list for Nigeria's upcoming matches against South Africa and Benin Republic in Group C of the African qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The 53-year-old former Nigeria international has called upon Eagles' leading marksman Victor Osimhen, Atalanta’s UEFA Europa League final hat-trick hero Ademola Lookman, newly-crowned German Bundesliga champion Victor Boniface, as well...
Africa's foremost Free-to-Air sports channel, Afrosport has been awarded Free-to-Air rights to broadcast live the 2026 World Cup qualifiers for African countries in Nigeria. MMS/PC Plus Group, FIFA’s exclusive agency for the FIFA World Cup 2026 African Qualifiers in 41 Sub-Saharan African countries for a free-to-air broadcast, awarded AfroSport the exclusive media rights of the competition to the millions of fans across Nigeria, as the Super...
The Super Eagles will face an uphill task against a familiar foe in South Africa when the two nations face off in the 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers in June. The Super Eagles, who were victorious the last time the two countries met in the semifinals of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), will have a new man on the sidelines when they lock...
Nigeria forward Ademola Lookman became the first African player to score three goals in the final of a major UEFA tournament. Lookman scored two quick-fire goals in the first-half with a third in the second half to give Atalanta a 30 lead in the first half of the UEFA Europa League final against Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday. The hat-trick also made Lookman the third Nigeria international...
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