Nigerian Football News and update—Nigeria Sports News

Nigeria is probably the most splendid beams of light for football in Africa. The football team known as Super eagles as they have been known have had a history in continental and international tournaments having won the African cup of nations.

With an energizing yield of players including the likes of Wilfried Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Kelechi Iheanacho, Samuel Chukweuze, and skipper Ahmed Musa, Nigerian football is in safe hands and have energizing occasions to look forward to.

Nigeria Football History

Football is by far the most followed sport in Nigeria and keeping in mind that the country was as yet under provincial guidelines by Britain, endeavors were made to coordinate a public group that would address the nation's advantages on the global stage. According to Nigerian football news, the principal official game played by the Nigerian football crew was a 2-0 triumph over Sierra Leone in Freetown in October 1949, while friendlies were additionally played against beginner and semi-proficient clubs during a visit through England.

Nigeria Performance in World Cup

According to Nigerianfootball news Nigeria discovered world cup capability hard to get mainly because of the way that Africa had only two delegates until the 1994 version. There were various close to misses, particularly in 1981 when Nigeria missed out on total to Algeria in the last phase of the capability arrangement for the 1982 World Cup. They likewise missed out by two to Cameroon in the capability arrangement for the 1990 World Cup.

After many years of heartbreak, Nigeria, at last, raised her banner at the Mundial when they made it to the 1994 World Cup in the USA. They stunningly qualified from a gathering additionally containing Argentina, Greece and Bulgaria however tumbled to Italy in the Round of 16 after two late punishments and misfortune in fixation cost the Super Eagles triumph in a match they had driven for such a long time. According to Nigerian football news, they rehashed the accomplishment four years after the fact in France, crushing an elegant Spain group in their initial apparatus before tumbling to a stun 4-1 thrashing to Denmark in the second round.

In total Nigeria has qualified for the world cup on six occasions making it to the second round in 1994,1998, and 2014.