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Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State has said the Pharaohs of Egypt equaliser against the Super Eagles during the 2017 AFCON qualifier played at Ahmadu Bello Stadium on Friday was not in the spirit of fair-play.

Mr. El-Rufai made the remark at a dinner he held in honour of the Super Eagles on Friday night at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna.

According to him, the centre referee ought to have detected that the Egyptian goal scorer, Mohamed Salah, was in the offside position.
The equaliser came in the stoppage time of the match.

The Super Eagles’ Oghenekaro Etebo scored the curtain raiser in the 60th minute of the match.
The governor said the Eagles played an excellent game and assured them that Kaduna fans would always support them in all their matches played in the state capital.

“You played excellent football. You were in control 65 per cent of the time; but perhaps the god of football was not on our side today.

“We have said to you that you will not lose a match in Kaduna and you have not lost,” he said.
Mr. El-Rufai said he had no doubt that the Eagles would beat the Egyptians on March 29 at their own soil in the return leg of the match.

Also speaking, the Minister of Sport and Youth Development, Solomon Dalong said though the Eagles drew 1-1 with the Egyptians, the match was not a total loss.
“Even if it was a loss, it is good to lose once in a while as no human is an angel and a loss once in a while makes one stronger to work harder.’’
He said that the Eagles did their best and should not worry of the last minute disappointment.

He said the Nigerian players would not have left the stadium in one piece if the fans were not satisfied with their performance, considering the crowd at the stadium.

The Minister concurred with the governor’s remark that the god of football was not on the side of the Eagles on Friday.
He promised that the ministry would also always support the national team.

Dignitaries at the dinner included the President, Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinick, the interim coach of the national team, Samson Siasia and the team’s captain, Mikel Obi.

– Players get cash reward promised for win against Pharaohs

– Encouraged to keep giving their best every time they put on the national colours

– Officials were also not left out in the largess

Nigeria’s Super Eagles got a massive reward after their disappointing 1-1 draw against the Pharaohs of Egypt at the Ahmadu Bello stadium, Kaduna on Friday, March 25.

Oghenekaro Etebo’s strike seemed to have sealed victory for interim coach, Samson Siasia, but Mohammed Salah, of AS Roma beat an offside trap a minute before the end of the game to score a valuable equaliser for the North Africans.

And after the game, Capital Oil boss and owner of Ifeanyi Ubah FC rewarded the players with the $5,000 he had promised them for a win and the officials got $3,000 for their efforts too.

Making this confirmation to NAIJ.com was the chairman of Ifeanyi Ubah FC, Chukwuma Ubah, who said: “We are just leaving the Super Sagles camp, where my club president encouraged the players to go to Egypt & win, he also reminded them that they are privileged wear the green white green jersey out of millions of good players in Nigeria.

“He also told them to be very proud to have been called up to represent Nigeria, they should not look at the financial benefits rather they should go for the glory.

“At the end of his visit, he still went ahead to give them $5000 he promised to give them if they win and also gave the technical crew $3000.

“All these are just to encourage the players & he went ahead to also give them $5000 as winning gift ahead of the Egypt match.”

Meanwhile, Babajide Orevba, NAIJ.com’s correspondent who covered the match, was robbed on his way from the stadium, when he was trying to get exclusive interviews with players and officials after the match.

Nigeria’s minister for sports, Solomon Dalung, has since requested the details of the affected personnel and has agreed to investigate to unravel the truth of the matter and the culprits.

– Samson Siasia says Nigeria conceded a goal in the 91s minute because of lack of concentration

– The coach says the Super Eagles have themselves to blame for not winning a match they should have

– The former Dream team coach is confident Nigeria can go to Alexandria in Egypt and claim a win

Super Eagles gaffer Samson Siasia has given his thoughts on Nigeria’s 1 – 1 draw with Egypt in an AFCON 2017 qualifier played in Kaduna.

Oghenekaro Etobo’s 60th minute strike was cancelled out by Mohammed Salah who scored a 90th minute goal for the Pharaohs against the run of play.

Speaking on the late strike Siasia sad Nigeria conceded because off a lack of concentration towards the end of the game.

“We lost concentration in the last two minutes of the game but we had a player down and we expected fair play. Sometimes fair play is not fair. But we should blame ourselves, not the Egyptians for the defeat,” Siasia said at a post-match press conference.

On the reverse fixture next week, Siasia said the team could win in Egypt and revive their hope of qualifying for the tournament in Gabon in 2017.

He said: “Everything is possible; we lost due to lack of concentration. We can’t be playing against our opponents and allow them to score against us. That’s all. We can talk from now till tomorrow. We can’t go backward. We have to move forward, we have to get ourselves together and go to Egypt and win. There’s nothing we can do.”

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Emmanuel presents you with 30 interesting facts about one of the most loved sports in the world.

1. Football originated in China around 476 B.C.

2. Football is the most played and most watched sport on earth.

3. Football is the most popular sport in the world. Over one billion fans watch World Cup Football on television.

4. The largest Football tournament saw no less than 5,098 teams. They competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players participated.

5. The maximum number of goals scored by one player in a single Football match was 16. It was scored by Stephan Stanis (France) playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942.

6. Based on video evidence, one of the fastest ever scored was in 2.8 seconds by Ricardo Olivera (Uruguay) in December 1998.

7. Football goalies didn't have to wear different coloured shirts from their teammates until 1913.

8. Football players run an average of 9.65 kms during every game.

9. The very first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball.

10. The World's First Football Club was the English Sheffield Football Club. It was founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.

11. European Teams have reached every World Cup final, except for the finals of 1930 and 1950.

12. The highest scoring game was clocked 149-0. Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, a team from Madagascar scored their own goals. They did it as a form of protest for the unfair decision by referee in the previous game.

13. Ronaldinho came into limelight when scored 23 goals in a 23-0 game when he was only

14. Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian born Chelsea player injured his legs while celebrating his debut goal in a pre-season match, while Luigi Riva broke a spectator’s arm with his powerful shot.

15. The first black football player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.

16. Pele was the first to call football “the beautiful game”.

17. Only Americans and Canadians call football “soccer”.

18. England came up with the word “soccer”. It’s a shortened version of “Association Football” that was changed to “Assoc Football”. This was changed to “Soccer”. In 19th century England, it was popular to add the “-er” sound to shortened words.

19. In 1964, a referee’s call during a football match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people.

20. In 1998, lightening killed an entire football team. The catastrophe occurred in Congo during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana.

21. ASEC Abidjan of Cote d’Ivoire was unbeaten for 108 games between 1989 and 1994.

22. The Portuguese boast of scoring the world's greatest goals to game ratio of 1.77. The team has found the net an incredible 331 times in just 187 games for Sporting Lisbon between 1937 and 1949 (compared to Messi's 0.82 for Barcelona).

23. Worldwide, there are 27 professional football clubs that take a Beatles song as their nickname - Villarreal in Spain being the most famous (the Yellow Submarines).

24. Neil Armstrong originally wanted to take a football to the moon - but NASA deemed it to be un-American.

25. The ball used in professional football has remained exactly the same size and shape for 120 years - 28inches in circumference.

26. More than 80% of the world’s footballs are manufactured in Pakistan.

27. The first live coverage of a football match was shown on television in 1937. It was a practice match Arsenal played at Highbury stadium.

28. A total of 20 red cards were shown in a match played between Sportivo Ameliano and General Caballero in Paraguay.

29. In 1978, Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson was fired for swearing at a lady.

30. Ryan Giggs' (of Manchester United) dad was a professional Rugby League player.

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Out-of-favour striker Christian Benteke admits he would never have joined Liverpool if he felt he was not going to be a "priority".

The £32.5million summer signing feels he has suffered from the Reds' decision to sack Brendan Rodgers in October and bring in Jurgen Klopp.

Rodgers made the Belgium international his number one summer transfer target, persuading the club's transfer committee to go well beyond their valuation of the player, in order to add a different dimension to the team.

Benteke started the first six Premier League matches of the season but then picked up an injury and by the time he was fit again Rodgers had been replaced.

He has struggled to retain a regular place under Klopp and since the turn of the year he has managed just five starts in 16 appearances, scoring just once.

"I was obviously happy [with the move to Liverpool], I joined a great club," Benteke told Belgium's Sport/Voetbalmagazine.

"I thought that finally I could find stability, settle for a duration at a big club. I knew I could face difficult months but, in the long run, it would work.

"I played two full matches in a row since Klopp [arrived]. I went up against Leicester, I scored, I followed up with a game and a goal against Sunderland and then we lost to West Ham and since then I have been discarded.

"Even my father was annoyed at first by my status as a reservist and told me that I can do nothing.

"I spoke with [Belgium team-mates] Eden [Hazard] and with Marouane [Fellaini], they all gave me the same answer: when a coach does not count on you, you cannot change anything.

"The thing that is annoying is that I had prepared to transfer to Liverpool. I never would have signed if I had not been the priority of the coach."

Benteke has scored just eight goals in 35 appearances with his only goal in 2016 coming from the penalty spot.

His apparent unsuitability for Klopp's intensive, high-pressing tactics has been debated for some time but the player rejects accusations he cannot fit in.

"Despite the situation I am in, I am second top scorer behind [Roberto] Firmino, with eight goals: this is not so bad although I would have hoped to score more," he added.

"I am the first to say that I have not shown enough of my worth for a club like Liverpool but on the other hand, when I arrived under Brendan Rodgers I knew I would have the opportunity to show my qualities, I was worth all that money, I deserved to wear the Liverpool shirt. But now...

"I knew that the new coach might have a different opinion on me and that's what happened.

"He [Klopp] told me he wanted me to be more involved in the game and yet it seems to me that this is one of my qualities.

"I have considered his remarks, I told myself that I had to adapt and change my style of play and then I remembered that Liverpool bought me for my qualities.

"The ideal situation is to keep my identity while trying to adapt to the style of the coach. And if it does not work, it does not work."