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PDPGuy:
Anthony Elanga and his dad (who played for Cameroon at the 1998 World Cup) are the first father and son duo to score World Cup goals!

Whao

4:0 smh

Same move, same pattern, and the same cross, and they scored from it for the third time.

HacheNoire:
Beautiful!

Wishing them a Happy married life and many happy years together.



His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) has always loved and admired unique love stories.

I know you are joking, but your jokes has put laughter into my life, continue

Good footy, and the last 15 minutes was more entertaining.

patrickmuf:
. Their qualifying for the World Cup is like magic, especially 8f you followed their qualification games.

no be dem wipe Tunisia 5:1?
Tunisia must be terribly bad be dat

Brace mehn

🚨 A financial settlement worth over £10m to Chelsea is thought to be the likely outcome with negotiations between Chelsea & City over the finer details ongoing.

🚨 Chelsea sources have indicated they have sufficient evidence to report City to the Premier League for making an illegal approach to Maresca, but have no plans to do so and are continuing to negotiate with them

[Via The Guardian]

D jokers

limcar:
morroco is winning this world cup

This is FIFA competition , not CAF's.
Only CAF can award you a title you didn’t win on the pitch, fifa don’t do that.

BlueRayDick:
The Information revealed by this man in this video is quite revealing.

Despite being SA to Vice President and having access to the top brass of Nigeria's security architecture, he still had to part with over ₦175m to secure release of his nephew that was kidnapped. What then is the hope of the common man?

**If you are kidnapped in Nigeria, you are completely on your own. No security agency will save you.

"My nephew was kidnapped while I was SA to Vice President Shettima. I knocked on every door, entered every office, and gave them the exact coordinates of the location. They… pic.twitter.com/qccQ3QbjxS

— DonAza (@DonAzag) June 18, 2026

/video/1?s=46

This is serious o, at this point, Nigeria's insecurity crisis it's like a blockbuster movie production, written and directed by the cabal in Aso Rock, produced by our Oga at the top( NSA, DSS) and distributed across the country by a network of foulanis .
The bandits /Fuolanis may be the actors on screen, but the real producers remain hidden behind the cameras.

The script keeps changing, but the producers remain the same. Sadly, ordinary Nigerians are the ones paying for the tickets of the movies.

I don't envy anyone who will have to govern this nation after this regime.

Lana1:
The camera men at this world cup have been rubbish. They are more interested in showing the celebrities in the stadium instead of the baddies.

LMAO

1:0

I just don’t know where this sudden obsession with the World Cup came from, from fans who once ranked it below the Euros. If you’ve won “the best,” why cry over the “inferior” one? Abeg, spare us the rant and let us have our breathing space here joor.

andrewbaba44:
Madueke and skill set on the same sentence 😂

e shock u?

Lana1:
I thought Ronaldo could play with 10 logs of wood so why all these complains about his teammates?

You people told us he was more popular and he had the streets so why the obession for him to be treated the same way Messi is treated by his teammates? Have you seen how Messi treats his own teammates? Does Ronaldo treat his own teammates the same way?

What they told us back then was that his tree alone could make a forest in any team. So the forest don become desert ni? 😂

BlueRayDick:
Nothing concern anybody with intentional or unintentional handball.

If you stretch your hand carelessly away from ur body and it obstructs a ball that was clearly heading towards the goal post or another player being passed to ; it will be rightly judged as handball. If it happened in the box , you will be punished by a PK being awarded against you . It is what it is .

Those who play professional football won’t tell you they don’t know what the rule is . It’s straight and simple .

If a ref makes human error by making the wrong call , you can always call them out .

You see the South African penalty today , it is a clear penalty . Anybody that says otherwise clearly doesn’t understand the rule of the game well enough . Simple.

I agree 100%. What I'm against is the double standard. If a handball occurs inside the box, let it be a penalty. Calling one intentional and another unintentional only creates room for inconsistency and controversy.

For instance, my team concedes a penalty because there was a handball, and the referee deems it intentional, and another team play, the exact same offence is judged as unintentional and no penalty is given. That's where the problem lies.

To avoid all this confusion and endless debates, let every handball in the box be judged by the same standard. At least then everyone will know exactly what the rule is, and with that, there will be fewer controversies.

raumdeuter:
E.g

Keeper played the kickoff to the defender. The defender didnt realize it and bent down to pick the ball.

Penalty or not. Did it change an attacking outcome

E.g this

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/g3obZOpwDM

Thank you jare. So which category does this incident fall under now, intentional handball or unintentional handball?

How many goals now in 10 minutes?

Hmm, haha wetin happen I don't want to believe this happen because of red card ooo

BlueRayDick:
That's the problem of the ref that didn't make the right call, not the ref that officiated today's match.

That what we have been saying, there should be a clear handball law that every fan can understand.

Right now, one handball is called a foul because it’s “intentional,” and another foul is not because it’s unintentional.
One player’s hand is in a “natural position,” another's hand is not. How are we supposed to judge these without controversy?

Which sane player would handle the ball intentionally in his own box knowing the punishment of it is a penalty?
99% of handballs called “intentional” today, are clearly unintentional. No sane person will commit foul intentionally in his own box. When you see a truly intentional handball, you’ll know, like Suarez against Ghana.

In the screenshot Raumdeuter quoted, their explanation was that the ball came off the player’s teammate before hitting his hand, so it wasn’t considered a foul. Then they now qioted an article saying that if the ball is played onto your hand by your teammate, it won’t be counted as foul.
So, It all starts to sound confusing.
All these things na how ojoro dey start.

iamoyindamola:
They will soon slap one of these female referees in this second round, it's not a pk

I think FIFA needs to provide a much clearer definition of this pk rule. I've seen several similar incidents where no penalty was awarded because the referee/var judged that there was no intentional handball.

In this case, considering how close the ball was to the player's hand, there was virtually nothing he could have done to avoid contact. Decisions like this are exactly why there's so much confusion and inconsistency around the handball rule, to me, that's not a penalty either. Unless the law now says that every ball that touches a player's hand inside the box is automatically a foul, there has to be some consistency.

You can't call one incident an unintentional handball and then penalize another similar one and call it intentional handball.

rooftops:
Omo the mismanagement from these guys will be studied for years before getting to the root cause. Front shirt sponsor wey we dey announce even before season end na him these guys dey get issue with.

I feel there is an accounting aspect they are trying to avoid that is preventing them from accepting sponsorship on the shirts.

If that's really the reason, then they're only postponing the inevitable, there are turning a small problem into a bigger one, because one day will be one day...

izzou:
This female ref dey blow anything sha

I like that ref in France vs Senegal

Unless you carry doctor's report come, Baba no dey blow

D Even with doctor's report sef, he must see blood first before he blow for foul.

andrewbaba44:
Omo we need question Thomas tuchel ball knowledge ,as saka wasn’t available madueke shouldn’t be starting for England ,even rashford will do better there ,I wonder Wetin e Dey find for World Cup at first
😂

Omo, you just summarized wetin dey my mind with this excerpt.

Tonnyray:
Africa has disowned them.

Gbam

BlueRayDick:
Aswear, that league win covered some of his blushes sha particularly Madueke's whom the fan base even protested when he was signed. English Arsenal fans literally protested his signing, and he didn't even prove them wrong with his performance especially in the later part of the season when we needed him most to relieve Saka of the extreme work load.

Madueke plays like his football brain didn't develop completely. Sometimes he will attempt to dribble past a LB and will somehow overkick the ball having skippeed past the defender only for the ball to end up being goalkick

dem say na him signing make you win the EPL 😂😂😂

Seeing Madueke in England's starting XI just dey give me migraines. Madueke, of all people? If he can make the starting lineup, then there's hope for me too in this England's Tuchel squad.

Skimpledawg:
See them blaming team mates and not Sir Cletus


Make e no score fess

abeg, who be Sir Cletus?

BlueRayDiick:
Sorry sir, keep the faith.

I want to believe you are still trusting God for Wasiu's Hatrick as revealed to you 😊

He still dey keep am till final, na final he go use am. 😂

Joezinho:
Congo DR will suffer today.

You want to defend a mobile Portuguese side for 90mins? lol

The sufferness too much ooo

Roland17:
The issue with Portugal having a superior midfield is that they will spend too much time passing the ball in the middle versus being direct and incisive in the final 3rd.

You sabi👌👍