Ser Gareth of Bale only having to play 20-25 club games a season, most of them being big domestic games, cup finals and big CL match-ups? he'd win every Ballon d'Or between now and 2030
when the travel ban targeting 39 countries (19 fully, including somalia) was first published, there was a provision thrown in about exempting world cup + olympic personnel to quell outrage. this admin takes you for a fool
Statement from top Somali referee Omar Artan denied entry to US for WC over vetting concerns: “I want to thank the football family for their messages and wish my colleagues all the best success during the World Cup & I look forward to joining them again in future competitions”
🇺🇸 ESTADOS UNIDOS HUMILLA A UZBEKISTÁN 🇺🇿😳
Lo ocurrido a la llegada de Uzbekistán al Icahn Stadium de Nueva York ha generado una enorme polémica.
La selección asiática fue sometida a un protocolo de seguridad nunca antes visto para un simple partido amistoso. Revisiones exhaustivas, controles desproporcionados y un trato que muchos califican como degradante para una delegación internacional.
El momento más tenso llegó cuando un oficial de seguridad le gritó al utilero uzbeko: “¡ALÉJESE DE LOS BOLSOS!”.
Jamás se había visto una requisa de esta magnitud contra una selección visitante en territorio estadounidense.
Una escena que ha provocado indignación y que muchos consideran una falta de respeto hacia Uzbekistán.
Honestly, Nigeria really did Amodu Shuaibu dirty.
If you are a conspiracy theorist, you could say our past atrocities could be what is working against Nigerian football now 🤣🤣🤣.
Because, how can the Super Eagles qualify for the World Cup when it was just three African teams, and now cannot qualify out of 10 countries.
Amodu toiled and qualified Nigeria for two World Cups: 2002 and 2010, but somehow, on the eve of the World Cup, he got fired by the NFF. And in his own words, it was totally "unfair."
That 2002 campaign was very tough. Nigeria had to overcome countries like Ghana, Liberia that had George Weah, and even Sierra Leone with Mohammed Kallon.
I really felt for him in 2010, because Tunisia almost snatched that ticket from us, then few months to South Africa, NFF fired him and went for Lars Lagerback. The Swedish bamboozled NFF in his interview, and claimed to have a dossier of all Super Eagles players.
This squad did not make it out of their group, even when a win against Korea Republic would have qualified Nigeria for the round of 16.
Six years later, Amodu died, in fact three days after Stephen Keshi had passed on. NFF almost fired Keshi too. They gave him a query two or three months to the World Cup.
A lot have happened in Nigeria football. E fit be the people wey we don wrong before, na'em dey affect Naija 😅. Anyway, I don't think it is karma, we have simply not done basic things.
BREAKING: Somali FIFA referee Omar Artan was denied entry into the United States upon arriving at Miami International Airport and was sent back to Turkey. Although he was selected to officiate the World Cup and held a valid visa, he was barred at the border due to the U.S. travel ban list, which includes Somalia, per BBC
Statement:
"FIFA can confirm that match official Omar Abdulkadir Artan will be unable to train and officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the United States. 1/3