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Nigeria will proceed their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in June the place they are going to meet AFCON 2023 semi-finalists, South Africa after they drew their first two video games.
The Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria will sq. up towards Argentina’s La Albiceleste in the course of the March Worldwide break in america of America, Soccernet.ng experiences.
Nigeria, at the moment placed 28th in the latest FIFA national team rankings will face a well-known foe on overseas turf as they get into footballing motion for the primary time since their AFCON 2023 ultimate loss to Ivory Coast.
Lionel Messi’s Argentina shocked the World after they emerged winners of the 2022 FIFA World Cup hosted in Qatar. They at the moment occupy the primary place in FIFA’s newest nationwide group rankings.
The conflict between either side was confirmed when the official account of the Argentine Soccer Affiliation posted the small print of the sport on their social media handle.
Subsequent cease 🇺🇸#ArgentinaNT pic.twitter.com/8tO37x0pz8
— Selección Argentina in English (@AFASeleccionEN) February 22, 2024
The sport was beforehand scheduled to be performed in China, however the followers weren’t too happy with the choice after Lionel Messi’s latest escapades with Inter Miami.
The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner was meant to characteristic in a sport performed on the membership’s tour in China however didn’t because of an harm.
The 36-year-old featured in one other sport just a few days later, inflicting uproar inside his Chinese language fanbase, earlier than the sport was finally moved to america of America, to be performed on the twenty sixth of March.
Nigeria and Argentina are not any strangers to one another, with either side drawn into the identical FIFA World Cup group between 2010 and 2018.
Of their conferences on the World’s largest stage, the Tremendous Eagles performed a goalless attract 2010, with La Albiceleste rising victorious in 2014 and 2018.
