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The last African team may be bidding the mundial farewell if they don't get a draw. So bad !

Penalty golore! Zakaria is a learner.

So bad for Germany. Finally out!

Suspect33:
World cup final is going to be Mexico vs Portugal, i said it first

Mexico that is going out or the Portugal that Uruguay will show pepper?

Germany been struggling since the world cup began, with all the quality. Sane must be laughing hard now . I hope they qualify so as to see them face Brazil in round of 16

Since Ighalo lost his father he became a useless footballer and lost his groove absolutely. He was the 'Yakubu' of the Eagles.

End of the road!

eddy4lyf:
it shows clearly you know nothing about God's kingdom! Your comment shows you're seeking for what to eat, wear and drink. Jesus says it's worldly people that seek for such things!. You're worldly, that's why you have this crook and satanist as mentors

Clap for yourself Quite obvious your comment lacks substance and proof. I can't fathom the place of seeking what to eat here-this is laughable! . Whoever I chose to be my mentor shouldn't have bothered you- my prerogative!

Try to respect other people's opinion and you will lead/live a life devoid of bitterness. Heb12:14

Gracias!

eddy4lyf:
it shows clearly you know nothing about God's kingdom! Your comment shows you're seeking for what to eat, wear and drink. Jesus says it's worldly people that seek for such things!. You're worldly, that's why you have this crook and satanist as mentors

Clap for yourself Quite obvious your comment lacks substance and proof. I can't fathom the place of seeking what to eat here-this is laughable! . Whoever I chose to be my mentor shouldn't have bothered you- my prerogative! Try to respect other people's opinion and you will lead/live a life devoid of bitterness.

Gracias!

dominique:
Full Time
So many injury time goals this world cup. Germany can still qualify. It all lies on Mexico's hands

Germany has got their destiny in their hands, not on Mexico. Korea is the whipping team of the group. A win for Germany against Korea,who are out, means second round is secured

The team spirit is extremely high. I don't think the crop of these Argentines would be able to stop us if we should play as a compact team.

Up Nigeria!

Over the bar

Unprofessional!

And we were blaming my Super Eagles Argentina down with 3 goals?

See goal! Mordric with a Screamer !

One of the poorest Argentinean team in a decade

Nothing entertaining about this match . Just karate

So the Iranians can play attacking football?
The goal by Iran was a goal. This VAR is yeye

Finally. Spain leads with a goal

I detest negative football. Iran must have learnt this from Mourinho

We need the "Salah Moment".....or Egypt will be on their way out....
Oh my! Egypt down with 3 goals?

What a match! Great first half

banqalee:
My 1:2 score prediction looking good.

Congratulations!

Lewandowski so toothless before the Senegalese defensemen Brilliant display by the only responsible African team

lafuria1:
it depends, if you want to work in oil and gas, mechanical engineering is the best, next best is Electrical, next best is Chemical in that order.

In most oil and gas project, you will need the mechanical engineer and electrical engineer, the go hand in hand

Civil is good but not versatile

Civil Engr'g not versatile in Nigeria? You must be kidding me
Get to find out the highest number of applicants who want to be Corporate Members of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. The industry is vast! Nigeria, with the huge deficit in infrastructures cannot help it, but need Civil Engineers and other allied professionals to fix them. Expatriates alone can't do this. Structures (built industry &consulting),highway,Geotechnics ,Water/Irrigation infrastructures. The COREN Assembly this year will be discussing the "Nigerian built industry". Don't discourage the young lad pls. Wherever he finds passion,let his pendulum swing to.

ishowdotgmail:
That defender is a fool, he caused the corner. Clear ball out you are romancing ball in front of England player

A compound fool! So annoying!

Stupid decision not to clear the ball was a bad one

Full time

England 2 Tunisia 1

Tunisia representing well

V.Moses should learn how to take corner kicks from Shaqiri

This Swiss dey ball o

boldking:
As I watched the Argentina and Iceland match today and
wondered why there were no black players in the Argentinean
team when other South American teams had black or biracial
players, I remembered a conversation I had last year.
It was while I was on a cruise from Florida to the Grand
Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.
Between an Argentinean doctor and myself, who had walked
up to me during lunch one day and struck up a conversation
with me.
There was no hiding the attraction.
We had bonded much to the chagrin of her three Argentinean
friends.
On the deck of the ship that day, she kept going on about how
she loves black men and looks forward to traveling so she can
meet them.
I asked her.
"Don't you have black people in Argentina?"
She said with a matter of fact candour.
"No. Long time ago, after slavery, we killed them all."
I was taken aback.
She smiled.
And continued.
"Very bad. I am ashamed of my people. It was very systematic
though. Very well thought out. First they forced most of the
men to fight for Argentina against Paraguay. They knowingly
sent them into battles that were poorly planned so that the
Paraguay army will do for them what they couldn't themselves
do. Kill the blacks. Most of them died there. The remaining of
them they forced to live in this province were there was a
plague. A disease that the government refused to curb so that
it can also do for them what they couldn't do. Kill the blacks.
The refused to set up hospitals, clinics, adequate shelter, food
outlets, nothing. They created the best environment for the
disease to thrive. It killed the rest of the men that had
survived the war. The darker you are, the higher the chance
they will send you to that place to live or to the war to die. The
lighter skinned women they forced them to sleep with the
white men, so that their children are biracial, then they forced
the children when they grew older to sleep with white men, so
that the blackness of the skin of the children became whiter
and whiter until there was no longer any visibly black people
seen. It was so bad that blacks fled to Chile, Peru, Bolivia,
Brazil and even Paraquay where they were better treated even
though not as well as they should be treated as human beings
deserving full equality. Atleast those ones did not want to kill
them and accepted to give them protection and a means of
livelihood. As a matter of fact in Chile, there was a city called
Arica where Black people were so accepted and respected
that in the 1700s two black free man, one called Anzuréz were
elected mayors. But the white colonial masters from Spain
came six months later and nullified the elections, they were
afraid of other cities giving black people too many rights. But
the blacks who had found succour did not complain, they sent
word for others to flee Argentina and come join them. Afterall
what was cancelled elections compared to certain death?"
Then she went silent as though trying to replay the magnitude
of the crime in her mind again. Then she said it in a sombre
tone in order to drive it home to me.
"The ones the Argentineans did not kill through war or
disease, and rape and impregnate, fled the country and
ultimately we got rid of the blacks."
I listened in rising sorrow.
She continued academically.
"So although they abolished slavery in 1815 in Argentina, it
continued until 1853, after that the main preoccupation of the
leaders was how to get rid of the black slaves and their
descendants. Our president who ruled us from 1868 to 1874,
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, wrote in his diary in 1848, this
was long before he became president and slavery ended that -
'In the United States… 4 million are black, and within 20 years
will be 8 million…. What is to be done with such blacks, hated
by the white race?' - It shows that he was already thinking of
how to eliminate black people before he became President
and when he became President, he succeeded."
"Didn't the world say anything?"
"No. They ignored it. I am sure most of them wanted to do the
same thing but failed. At that time, they admired them. I
remember when I will go to Brazil as a child, my father's friend
will say in disgust as he looked at the black Brazilians - we
should have had your guts and finished them off. All of them.
Make Brazil white just like Argentina."
"And the Europeans?"
She laughed.
"It is an open secret, just like King Leopold and his genocide
in Congo. No one talks about it, but they know about it.
Atleast the older ones do. The younger ones not so much.
Why do you think all the Nazis ran to Argentina after World
War 2?"
I was silent.
She continued.
"Because it was the perfect place for the most evil racists in
history to live."
Then she looked out to the infinitely blue sea around the ship
and sighed audibly before she continued.
" Sadly, to some extent, it still is welcoming and accomodating
of racial hatred. We took the Tango from the African slaves
and made it our own. In Argentina, not one person will tell you
the true history of that dance. They don't want to associate it
with Africa. In fact if you ask them about black people in
Argentina they will tell you that there has never been black
people in Argentina. They teach them in schools. They rewrite
the history. They make it all white. And as I said it is all
underneath the surface. They never come out and say we hate
black people. Argentina is only for whites or anything like that.
They have just fixed the country to only be for white people."
I looked at her friends, Argentineans like her, who were
lounging on the chairs on the deck, clad in their tiny bikinis,
drinking pina coladas and smiling.
She followed my gaze and then turned to me.
"Don't be fooled by all those smiles, scratch the surface and
you will see that all they want is for you to disappear."
Toronto.

What an informative piece. I had before now, imagined, why places like Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and some other SouthAmerican nations are filled with blacks and biracials while Argentina isn't. This obviously threw more light to my unanswered question. Thumbs up!

Mikel playing in front of Iwobi is strange. Does he dictate where he plays. The whole thing just went south.

We will fight another day. So unfortunate a match