World Cup 2018: FIFA To Pay Super Eagles £6.1 Million After Crashing Out

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PublishedonJune 29, 2018
By John Owen Nwachukwu


The Super Eagles of Nigeria and other teams that crashed out on the group stages of the 2018 World Cup will be paid only £6.1 million each by the football governing body, FIFA.


Nigeria would have received £9.1 million if the match against Argentina ended in their favour.


This is because any team eliminated from the round of 16 stage will receive £9.1million.
The World Cup winning team will receive £28 million in prize money from FIFA, with 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams receiving £21million, £18million and £16million respectively.


This means that for the World Cup winners, each player in the 23 man squad would pocket £1.2million.


The 32 teams were also given £1.1million each to prepare for the tournament.


http://www.dailypost.ng/2018/06/29/world-cup-2018-fifa-pay-super-eagles-6-1-million-crashing-see-prizes/

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Worldcup 2018: Mikel Obi suggests VAR favours big countries

Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, has suggested that the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), only works in favour of big countries.

VAR was immersed in controversy on Tuesday night, as Nigeria bowed out of the 2018 World Cup.

With the scores at 1-1, referee Cuneyt Cakir opted not to award the Eagles a second penalty, after the ball came off Marcos Rojo’s arm inside the box.

Rojo went on to score the winner with six minutes left.

Speaking with CompleteSports, Mikel Obi suggested that the decisions always go the way of big teams.

Asked what he thought about the VAR system, the Tianjin TEDA midfielder replied: “Arŕrrrgh, I don’t want to make comment about it. Big country, I don’t know. Small country? I don’t want to go there.”

When pressed on if it doesn’t favour small teams, he answered: “I have nothing to say about it. You can do that mathematics yourself. That’s all I can say.”

http://dailypost.ng/2018/06/28/world-cup-2018-mikel-obi-suggests-var-favours-big-countries/

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According to Daily Mail, Chelsea FC have rejected a £50m offer from Barcelona for Brazilian attacker Willian. The report stated that the player’s representatives have been in Barcelona and also held talks with the Blaugrana chiefs.

However, Chelsea are not interested in letting go of the Brazil international. Barcelona won the domestic double last season but manager Ernesto Valverde is believed not to be content with the squad’s depth and attacking flair, a situation which was obvious in the side’s defeat to Roma in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.
Barcelona reportedly see Willian as a player that can help improve their attack and link up perfectly with fellow countryman Philippe Coutinho, following Andres Iniesta’s departure.

Willian is also a subject of interest from Manchester United as they made attempts to sign him in January, although the move was rejected by Chelsea as Willian was on an impressive run of form at the time.

He displayed inconsistency towards the end of the season. Regardless, Chelsea are not ready to let him leave Stamford Bridge. Meanwhile, Chelsea FC are currently in talks to sign Aleksandr Golovin.

SOURCE:-https://savechelsea.net/chelsea-reject-50m-barcelona-willian/

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FIFA world cup round of 16

France v Argentina
Date: 30 june 2018
Time: 3pm
Venue: Kazan


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Uruguay Vs Portugal: World Cup Today At 7pm
The first round of 16 match in this World Cup is between the group A leader, Uruguay, and the group B runner-up, Portugal, at the Kazan Stadium Russia.

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France Vs Argentina: World Cup (4 - 3) On 30th June 2018

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Spain Vs Russia: World Cup 1(3) - 1(4) - On 1st July 2018

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Spain Vs Russia: World Cup 1(3) - 1(4) - On 1st July 2018

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World Cup 2018: Brazil beat Mexico 2-0 to reach quarter-finals

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Highlights: Brazil 2-0 Mexico
Neymar scored one goal and played a key role in the second as Brazil edged out Mexico in Samara to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for a seventh consecutive time.
Brazil did not have it all their own way, especially in an opening period dominated by Mexico, but the five-time winners grew into what became a controlled performance.
It means Mexico are once again eliminated at the last-16 stage - as they have been at every World Cup since 1994.
They did have plenty of chances early on, and it was only after a largely frustrating first half for Brazil that Neymar started the move to put his side ahead.
His run across goal and clever backheel won Willian space, and the Chelsea midfielder only needed two touches to drive into box and lay the ball across for the world's most expensive player to slide home.
It was Brazil's 227th goal at the World Cup, meaning they overtake Germany as the all-time top scorers.
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For much of the second half, Mexico's bright start was just a memory, but Carlos Vela forced a save from Brazil goalkeeper Alisson with his side's first shot on target not long after going behind.
In the match's closing stages they rallied once more, but Brazil defended stoically before doubling their lead on the break through a Roberto Firmino tap-in after Neymar's effort was diverted by the toe of Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
Brazil will face Belgium or Japan - who meet in Rostov-on-Don in the day's second match (19:00 BST) - in their last-eight tie in Kazan on Friday.
But they will be without Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro, who will be suspended after being shown his second yellow card of the tournament.
'Embarrassing from Neymar'
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Neymar has been fouled 23 times at the 2018 World Cup, more than any other player.
Given his contribution, Neymar should have garnered only positive headlines, but he was the centre of attention for the wrong reasons too after overreacting to a challenge from Miguel Layun in the closing stages.
The Mexico full-back appeared to press his studs against Neymar's ankle as he retrieved the ball from between the Brazilian's legs.
Neymar, who was sitting down, writhed around in apparent agony before getting up to carry on without any issue.
"I'm embarrassed for Neymar," said former England striker Dion Dublin on BBC Radio 5 live.
"He is one of the world's greatest players but when he rolls about on the floor, I just don't get it. Come on young man you're better than that, get on with the game."
Brazil get the job done - again
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Neymar has scored six goals from 38 shots in World Cup tournaments
Brazil are aiming to emulate the many great teams before them, while putting behind the heartache they suffered at the tournament they hosted four years ago, when Germany destroyed them 7-1 in the semi-finals.
Tite's side did not really hit their stride in the group stage. After being held to 1-1 draw with Switzerland they needed two injury-time goals to beat Costa Rica 2-0, and it was only in the second half that we really began to see their best against Mexico.
They would have been out of sight far sooner than the 88th minute were it not for Ochoa, who made several excellent saves after the break.
Either side of Neymar's strike, the Standard Liege goalkeeper thwarted powerful drives from Philippe Coutinho and Paulinho, before making his most stunning save to block a Willian stinging drive that for everything looked destined for the top corner.
It kept his side in with a chance of a late equaliser, but Brazil just seem to be a team that know how to win knockout matches and get the job done.
They retreated behind the ball as Mexico threw everything forward, and pounced clinically on the counter to make sure progress would be safe.
The last time they failed to reach quarter-finals was in 1990.
More heartache for Mexico
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Guillermo Ochoa conceded six goals in four games at the 2018 World Cup
There is a national obsession in Mexico that centres on a failure to go beyond four games at a World Cup, stretching back 32 years.
Only once have they done so - at the 1986 tournament they hosted, when they beat Bulgaria in the last 16 before falling to West Germany.
It remains the only World Cup knockout-stage victory in Mexico's history.
Rafael Marquez, 39, may well remember watching the match. He captained the side against Brazil in Samara, on his first start at a joint record fifth World Cup, before being withdrawn at half-time.
It was not purely down to his influence, but Mexico played their best football in the opening period, when they created several good chances but failed to score.
Vela picked out Hector Herrera in the area but the midfielder took too many touches and his shot was blocked, while Javier Hernandez just failed to connect with a Lozano cross.
In the second half, it was Gallardo's decision not to find the galloping Lozano on the left wing that eventually proved the most costly miss, as Brazil punished them minutes later.
Mexico have made the last 16 at every tournament since 1994 - only Brazil have achieved the same - but they have lost every time.
This year will feel like another missed opportunity.
They started the tournament brilliantly with a 1-0 win over Germany, then beat South Korea 2-1, before a 3-0 defeat by Sweden set up a knockout tie with Brazil, a team they have now never scored against in five World Cup meetings.
Neymar (Brazil) - man of the match
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He received the game's lowest rating on the BBC Sport Player Rater, but Neymar once again reminded us of his ability to summon danger at will. His footballing contribution was crucial to Brazil's victory
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• Brazil have won eight of their nine World Cup matches against North American, Central American and Caribbean nations, conceding in just one.
  
• Since the introduction of the round of 16 in 1986, Mexico have been eliminated at this stage of the World Cup seven times - more than twice as many as any other nation.
  
• Brazil are unbeaten in 15 matches in all competitions, conceding just three goals.
  
• Firmino scored two minutes and four seconds after coming on, the second fastest goal from a substitute at the 2018 World Cup.
  
• Neymar has been involved in 20 goals in his past 19 games in all competitions for Brazil, scoring 11 and assisting nine.
  
• Firmino scored his seventh goal for Brazil - on each occasion it has been their final goal of the game.
  
• Neymar has had the most shots (23), shots on target (12) and created the most chances (16) of any player so far at the 2018 World Cup.
  

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Belgium 3-Japan 2

World Cup 2018: Belgium stun Japan to reach quarters
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Belgium's Chadli scores dramatic stoppage-time winner
Belgium completed a remarkable revival as they came from the World Cup abyss and beat Japan to reach the quarter-finals.
Roberto Martinez's side were trailing 2-0 when he brought on Marouane Fellaini and Nacer Chadli in the 65th minute, and Fellaini scored the equaliser before Chadli netted a 94th-minute winner.
They now face Brazil in the last eight on Friday.
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Japan looked on their way to a famous win in Rostov after Genki Haraguchi ran onto Gaku Shibasaki's long ball, which Jan Vertonghen should have cut out, to open the scoring.
Takashi Inui's 25-yard strike made it 2-0 and looked set to take the Asian side into their first quarter-final.
Belgium's Premier League stars - their golden generation - had put in a disappointing performance, and Martinez turned to the oft-ridiculed Fellaini and West Brom winger Chadli in his hour of need.
Their fortunes changed after that as Vertonghen scored a looping header to get them back into the game.
Fellaini then headed in Eden Hazard's cross to level before Chadli converted Thomas Meunier's pass to finish off a flowing move and help the Red Devils avoid being the latest victims of a World Cup of shocks.
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Highlights: Belgium 3-2 Japan
Belgium clearly have the players - Hazard, Kevin de Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtois are some of the Premier League's undoubted stars. They are now unbeaten in 23 games, but there are always questions about whether they are tactically astute.
Martinez and his players will feel they have gone some way to answering those, and finding a real winning touch, having looked dead and buried after an hour.
Chelsea winger Hazard had hit the post in one of their few good chances in the opening 60 minutes.
But they ground their way back into the game - even though the goal to give them hope was a bit of a fluke. Inui booted the ball up into the air and Vertonghen's looping header flew over keeper Eiji Kawashima, who should have done better.
At 20 yards, it is the longest headed World Cup goal since those stats were first recorded in 1966.
Then the substitutes came to the fore. Fellaini, who signed a new Manchester United deallast week, powered in Hazard's centre to level the scores after 74 minutes.
And the winner was a real team effort. Goalkeeper Courtois rolled the ball to De Bruyne, who had been quiet for 90 minutes but exploded into life when his country needed him.
The Manchester City playmaker carried the ball 60 yards before feeding Meunier, his cross was stepped over by Lukaku, and Chadli was on hand to steer it home.
Lukaku had scored 17 goals in his previous 11 Belgium games but his decision to not shoot on this occasion might prove more crucial than any of those.


Fellaini header levels score for Belgium
Can Belgium now win the World Cup?
Belgium will feel a huge amount of spirit building after this fightback - and also when they reflect on the fact their last defeat was Martinez's first game in charge, against Spain in September 2016.
Their past two tournaments - the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016 - have both come to an end at the quarter-final stage. The Red Devils, who have never won a major tournament, will be desperate to go at least one step further this time - but there is one huge problem.
Their next game is against the favourites to win the tournament, five-time champions Brazil, on Friday in Kazan. The winner of that game faces either 1998 kings France or two-time winners Uruguay for a place in the final.
They will not need reminding that if they had lost to England in the final group game, instead of beating them, no World Cup winners would have stood between them and the final.
"Belgium had to dig deep from within and they did it so well," said BBC Radio 5 live's Chris Sutton. "Belgium are not going to have a harder game than this all tournament. They were in a real scrap."
So close... yet so far away for Japan


Inui extends Japan's lead with brilliant strike
Japan have taken big gambles in the past few months and after an hour in Rostov, it looked like they were paying off in style.
First they sacked head coach Vahid Halilhodzic and replaced him with Akira Nishino two months before the tournament started.
Then they controversially sat back in order to maintain a 1-0 deficit in their defeat by Poland in their final group game - even though a goal elsewhere could have knocked them out.
And it looked as if the Blue Samurai were going to become only the third Asian nation - after South Korea in 2002 and North Korea in 1966 - to reach the World Cup quarter-finals when they deservedly took the lead.
Haraguchi kept his composure to shoot across Courtois and give them the lead and then the impressive Inui blasted in a long-range second to put them in control.
In truth, they did not have a host of chances - with only four shots on target - and all the momentum had deserted them by the time Chadli placed the ball past Kawashima with seconds remaining.
"Japan will regret the last two minutes because they threw everything forward and they were a little bit too open at the back," said BBC One pundit Jurgen Klinsmann, a former Germany international. "In the 94th minute, the players are tired and they are thinking about extra time, and that is when mistakes happen."
What they said - 'it was a tragedy'
Belgium boss Roberto Martinez: "You get pushed in games. Let's congratulate Japan, they played the perfect game. They were clinical on the counter and so solid. It was a test of character and you see the reaction of our subs coming on to win the game. It tells you everything about this group of players.
"No negatives today, it was about getting through. It is a day to be very proud of these players. Keep believing in Belgium. In the World Cup you want to be perfect but it's about getting through, it's about winning."
Japan coach Akira Nishino: "I am devastated. Yes we took the lead but we couldn't win. It might have been a very small difference but I felt there was nothing in it.
"Maybe it was my decisions as a coach or my tactics, and we couldn't keep up with Belgium, who upped their game.
"I don't want to admit it. I do feel that it was a tragedy but I have to accept the defeat as a fact."
Man of the match - Takashi Inui (Japan)
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• Belgium are the first team to come from two or more goals down to win a World Cup knockout stage match within 90 minutes since Portugal beat DPR Korea in the 1966 quarter-final (0-3 down, 5-3 win).
  
• Belgium have reached the World Cup quarter-finals in successive tournaments for the first time.
  
• Belgium have never kept a clean sheet in their 12 World Cup knockout round matches, shipping 28 goals in total.
  
• Japan have scored six goals at Russia 2018, their highest ever tally in a single World Cup tournament.
  
• There were just four minutes and 16 seconds between Japan's two goals, and just four minutes and 30 seconds between Belgium's brace to level the scores.
  
• There have now been nine 90th-minute winning goals in the 2018 World Cup. There were just 10 in the previous five tournaments combined.
  
• Eden Hazard has been directly involved in 19 goals in his 18 games for Belgium under Roberto Martinez, scoring 10 and assisting nine.
  
• Takashi Inui is only the third player to have scored multiple goals in a World Cup tournament for Japan, after Junichi Inamoto in 2002 (2) and Keisuke Honda in 2010 (2).
  
• Both of Marouane Fellaini's World Cup goals for Belgium have been headers.
  
• Nacer Chadli scored his first goal in 11 games for Belgium, his previous effort coming against Estonia in June 2017.
  

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