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DR Congo national team go viral after arriving for the 2026 World Cup wearing custom suits with leopard-print accents. 🇨🇩🐆🔥 pic.twitter.com/j254gLt54T

— Pulse Nigeria (@PulseNigeria247) June 12, 2026

Mujtahida:
I don't support SA but it's not because of the issue of xenophobia oo. Cos I firmly believe every nation has the right to protect their borders.

The immigrant wants to get in, the natives wants to protect their country from unrestrained migration. Every side doing what conduces to their self interest.

If it were a white country, we'd label them racist but since we cannot hurl that invective against the Mzanzis, we call them Xenophobes.

I try to look at issues beyond the popular narrative.

The international argument is weighed against the SA people but does anyone care about their own fears and concerns?

Is the sentiment to protect one's country, culture, history and boundaries not common throughout the world?

Even in Nigeria here despite our shared nationality, don't we see nativist marking the boundaries which define the limits of people who are not natives? Is this not what is behind the crisis in the Plateau? Do we let people of other ethnicities who are not natives of our various states to hold elective positions? No!

But if our people are denied the same opportunity abroad, we start crying racism. It's rank hypocrisy.

Africa helped them during apartheid but to me, that help was not conditional or predicated on their allowing all Africans come unrestrained to their country.

The bottom line is that we have to be fair in looking at this issue. To cast SA people as devils without at least understanding their grouse is unfair. I say this and the same time I abhor the violence that accompanies their objections to the presence and influx of migrants.

The whole world does not belong to everyone indiscriminately. There are borders and boundaries. People have a right to their space.

TheSuperNerd:
Thomas Partey denied entry Visa into Canada. Will miss Ghana's 1st game.

https://x.com/i/status/2065477729529499841

charlesemeka85:
pple wey once rate Tanimu ahead of Bassey wetin u expect

TheSuperNerd:
Elyte89.... I dedicate this post to you.

DR Congo national team go viral after arriving for the 2026 World Cup wearing custom suits with leopard-print accents. 🇨🇩🐆🔥 pic.twitter.com/j254gLt54T

— Pulse Nigeria (@PulseNigeria247) June 12, 2026

SymphonyRad:
Omo this world cup no be child's play o, Canada denied Thomas Partey access to their country due to his pending case of rape charges.

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2065479786869268636?s=20[/quote]It’s high time fifa stop playing the ostrich if they can’t enter agreement with host countries that visa waivers must be granted to participating teams and officials.

If FIFA doesn’t try as much as possible to keep the game apart from politics and state affairs the risk of having another parallel football body will increase.

AndSunGorilla:
D law, I apologize for tagging you with my response, I don forget say na one of your main crusades be dis.

Meanwhile make we enjoy world cup o, I really expect a lot from CIV. Morocco we're dumb to fire their coach just because of Brahim Diaz's folly and somehow they have used backdoor to "win" it.

TheSuperNerd:
Does Ronwen Williams not know what is happening back home? Na wa.

TheSuperNerd:
SA never beat us. Our first 4 games did us in especially the first 2. NFF, JPes, Finidi happened.

yinkeys:
Excuses lol
Okay what about the DRC game

charlesemeka85:
pple wey once rate Tanimu ahead of Bassey wetin u expect

yinkeys:
Excuses lol
Okay what about the DRC game

Odunayaw:
PK shootout na beat?

Sugarboyy:
These people are just underrating that Fernandez. Someone that's so calm with the ball on his feet, very good aerially and hardly make mistakes. Fernandez might ends up playing for a bigger club before even Bassey

AndSunGorilla:
One of my Zimbabwean friend who had university in Capetown was so glad they lost. We actually loved them, we so much love Mandela but how have they repaid other Africans? With xenophobia, and they expect us to support them??

Damioduso1:
Super eagles right back competition


1, Ola Aina


2, Bright Osayi Samuel

3, Benjamin Fredrick

4, Ryan Alabiosu

5. Beware

Damioduso1:
Super eagles right back competition


1, Ola Aina


2, Bright Osayi Samuel

3, Benjamin Fredrick

4, Ryan Alabiosu

5. Beware

FiveFootNinja:
Yesterday was the most beautiful hatewatch I've ever had.

Hilarious game from two shambolic teams. South Africa completely collapsed, made history by getting two players booked on the first match of World Cup opening, gave us brand new memes with Zwane and Sithole,...

I couldn't have asked for a better start to the tournament. No be to qualify for World Cup, you go fit turn up? 😂😂

EElopa:
This is the problem with a Black man. He is always trying to create a shortcut through affirmative actions that ends up producing mediocrity and outright disastrous results. This South African team is a disgrace to African football and CAF. Other confederations set up their World Cup qualification format in ways that the best teams from that confederation qualify for the World Cup, but CAF sets theirs in a way that luck of the draw plays a major part. This South African team is a disgrace, and they only qualified because of the stupid set of criminals we have in the NFF. They qualified because of the unmotivated Nigerian team with bad coaching. A weak group, and because of them playing 90 per cent of the games at home against minnows. This shit is really irritating. Some of my friends who are seeing this South African team are completely lost for words on how poor they are and how they managed to finish above Nigeria. This shit is really irritating. This South African team, along with the 2014 Saudi Arabian team, are two of the worst sides I have seen at the World Cup in my lifetime.

TheSuperNerd:
Thomas Partey denied entry Visa into Canada. Will miss Ghana's 1st game.

https://x.com/i/status/2065477729529499841

mostob:
If em call me novice, I for gree but not Elder Kog biko. Forgiveness too na OG.

Well, guy man fit don dey watch match since 60s. This is a faceless forum

AndSunGorilla:
Forgiveness that watched Thunder Balogun!!!

TheSuperNerd:
Thomas Partey denied entry Visa into Canada. Will miss Ghana's 1st game.

https://x.com/i/status/2065477729529499841

Odunayaw:
PK shootout na beat?

minfelix:
wow!! since 1980’s this is respectfully 39+/40+ yrs ago… we really have men in the shape and age of Mikel Obi,C ronaldo, Yobo, Enyeama etc here… guys that come in here to troll childishly and respond and reply people rashly should pls think and reason well before commenting here…my first serios world cup i watched from beginning to end was the 2002 world cup…na my papa motor car radio i childishly dey listen to france 98 final 3-0…I didn’t have a full knowledge of what happened at at world cup even the Nig vs Spain na only Oliseh shot and Raul’s missed kick(that still plays in my head from france 1998).
This place na legends of soccer/super eagles fans full am o

TheSuperNerd:
🚨 FIFA statement on Thomas Partey being left out of Canada.

“FIFA can confirm that player Thomas Partey will be unable to travel from Ghana's Team Base Camp in Boston, USA, to Canada for their first match against Panama on Wednesday, 17 June, as his visa application has been refused by the Canadian government.

"FIFA is not involved in the immigration processes of host countries, including the adjudication of visas. As with previous FIFA events, the host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and is admitted into the country."