Nigeria: FIFA Sanction - NFF's Ignorance Not Valid Excuse

13 December 2017

The celebration that greeted Nigeria's qualification for the Russia 2018 World Cup could have been short-lived on Tuesday when the world football governing came down hard on the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.

FIFA found Nigeria guilty of using an ineligible player in their last World Cup qualifying game against Algeria. The Super Eagles were thus docked the points accrued from that thankfully dead-rubber encounter.

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