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30 — Vanguard, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Amokachi: Eagles don't
deserve to be in Qatar
World Cup
•says NFF have
tradition of hiring
wrong coaches
Former Super Eagles
striker, Daniel
Amokachi, has attributed
the dwindling fortunes of
the national teams to the
Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF), who he
blamed for hiring wrong
coaches and calling up
wrong players.
Disclosing this during an
interview on Channels
Television, in reaction to the
4-0 thrashing of the Eagles
by Portugal in an
international friendly
match last Thursday,
Amokachi cautioned
against the dismissal of
manager Jose Peseiro,
noting that the Portuguese
trainer should be provided
with help to succeed in his
Hussey
College
Warri
dominates
GCU Relays
2022
By Jacob Ajom
Hussey College Warri
emerged the overall
Best School in the justconcluded
Government
College Ughelli
I n v i t a t i o n a l
Intercollegiate Athletics
Competition {GCU
Relays 2022}. The school
emerged tops after
amassing 29 points
across all events.
Not surprisingly, the
school produced the Best
•Eagles
job of rebuilding Eagles.
“When you look at the
Portugal game, that tells
you that we don’t even
deserve to be there (World
Cup).
“There are one, two, three
different angles that you
have to look at it, bringing
in the right coach, bringing
in the right players and
getting the right
Mexico try Lewandowski's
Poland for size
Mexico
tackle
Poland in a
potentially pivotal
encounter in Group C
today.
The match will kick-off at
4pm GMT in Doha, Qatar,
at Stadium 974, which is the
overall Male and Female Athletes
in.Samson Arodovwe Miracle and Bukky
Elijah, all from Hussey College, Warri.
Bukky Elijah scooped 2 gold and a silver
medals from the events.
The languid Bukky was the fastest girl
in the 100 meters dash as she breasted the
tape in a promising time of 12.03 seconds.
She dusted a strong field containing
fellow Hussey College track queen Chuka
Edigbo (12.08) and Imi Jesytekevwe of
Ibru College, who returned 12.69 secs.
Apart from the 100m dash in both male
and female categories,
there were competitions
in 200m male and
female, 4x100m and
4x400m relays in both
categories.
In the main events, the
relays, United College of
Commerce, Warri won
the 4x100m girls. Hussey
College Warri placed
second while, Idia
College finished third.
Hussey College won the
boys' category. UCC
Warri and host GCU
finished second and third
respectively.
Hussey College won
the girls' category in the
4x400m Relays. UCC
placed second while
Oteri Secondary School
placed third.
first temporary
venue in World
Cup history,
having been
constructed from
974 recycled
shipping containers
Mexico are heading into
their eighth consecutive
World Cup appearance,
having been eliminated at
the last 16 stage in each of
their last seven entries.
Former Argentina boss
and player Gerardo
Martino is the man tasked
with breaking that cycle in
Qatar, having been in
charge of El Tri since
January 2019.
Poland, meanwhile, are
aiming to progress beyond
the group stage for the first time
since Mexico '86, with their
opening game against that
nation likely to be crucial
given that outright
second favourites
Argentina are
also in
their group.
As has often been the case in the
past decade or so, their hopes of
performing well at a major
tournament heavily hinge on the
form of legendary
forward Robert Lewandowski,
who is still yet to score at a
World Cup having blanked in
all three matches in 2018.
The 34-year-old will be
determined to rectify that
unwanted record against
Mexico today, and potentially
put his nation in the driving seat
for second spot in Group C in
the process.
•Elijah
•Amokachi
environment to play.
“We always bring the
wrong coaches to handle a
country like Nigeria; we
always bring the wrong
players,” Amokachi said.
•Lewandowski
Qatar 2022: I want
Argentina to lose
all group matches
– Messi’s doctor
Lionel Messi’s doctor, Diego
Schwarzstein has said that he
would want Argentina to lose her three
group matches in Qatar.
In other words, he would not want
Argentina, his country, to win the 2022
FIFA World Cup.
Despite sharing a great relationship
with Messi, Schwarzstein does not want
the 35-year-old to win the FIFA World
Cup in his career.
He believed the
Argentine
government would
use the World Cup
success for
propaganda to
cover up its failure.
“As a football fan, I
would like Argentina to be
champions. As an Argentine
citizen, as a human being, I
would like them to lose all
three games and be •Neymar
eliminated in the first
round,” he told The Times.
“Why, I’m convinced that
this obscenely populist
government that we have here
would use the success of
Argentina at the World Cup to cover
things up,” he said.
Messi leads Argentina
World Cup quest
against Saudi Arabia
Argentina's latest quest for
international glory kicks off today,
as the South American nation start
their World Cup 2022 Group
C campaign against Saudi Arabia at
the Lusail Iconic Stadium.
La Albiceleste have two World
Cups in their cabinet from 1978
and 1986, while Saudi Arabia
are aiming to make waves in
a difficult group and avoid
an expected fourth-placed
finish
In what may very well
prove to be Lionel Messi's
World Cup swansong, the
script for the seven-time
Ballon d'Or winner to
propel his nation to the big
one has already been written, and there is every reason to
believe that this year could be Argentina's year.
Messi will expect to form an intimidating attacking
trident with Lautaro Martinez and Angel Di Maria,
while Cristian Romero and Nicolas Otamendi could
line up at the back if Martinez is spared.
As for Saudi Arabia, five-cap midfielder Riyadh
Sharahili has reportedly sustained a muscular problem
which has thrown his World Cup hopes into doubt, while
defender Hassan Tambakti is now back in full training
after recovering from discomfort.
France to replace Benzema
with Martial
France is likely to call up Manchester United attacker
Anthony Martial as the replacement for Karim
Benzema who suffered an injury on Saturday during Les
Bleus.
The French national team said the Real
Madrid forward had suffered a thigh
problem and would not be able to
feature in the tournament.
On Wednesday, RB Leipzig forward
Christopher Nkunku was ruled out of
the tournament after he limped out
of training, with Eintracht
Frankfurt’s Randal
•Martial
•Messi
Kolo Muani
called up as a
replacement.
With France’s
opening game due
in 2 days, it is expected
that Didier Deschamps
will settle on Martial
to take the place of the
injured forward.
Neymar arrives in Qatar as
most fouled player in
Europe's leagues
Neymar may be one of the stars of the Brazilian
national team, there is no doubt about that, but as
the World Cup is taking place in the last part of the year,
many players are already very battered, as is the case of
the PSG striker, who arrives at the Qatari tournament as
the player who has received the most fouls throughout
the season in the five major European leagues.
Neymar is the player who most often faces opponents
and seeks to dribble, which is known as jogo bonito, and
the PSG player is the maximum exponent of this style of
soccer, but not everything is flashy, there are also
opponents who plan to stop these daring, daring players
at all costs.
In total, Neymar has been the victim of 66 fouls so far
in the 2022-2023 season of the elite tournaments in the
old continent. Likewise, O'Rei Pelé's Santos debutant
received the most fouls in Russia 2018 with 26 in five
games, all thanks to his daring style.
Another player who shares this bold and daring style is
Vinicius Jr of Real Madrid. The Flamengo-trained
player leads the table of the most fouled players
in the Spanish league with 49 fouls received
in 14 games. Both are exponents of the jogo
bonito.