Football

Arsenal winger Alex Iwobi is confident that the Super Eagles have a team that can beat Argentina at the 2018 World Cup.

In November 2017 in Krasnodar, the Hale End Academy product was the star man in Nigeria's 4-2 win over the South Americans, who were without the best player on the planet Lionel Messi.

The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed that FIFA will hold one of their 12th FIFA Executive Football Summit (EFS) meetings in Lagos, Nigeria. The FIFA Executive Football Summit meeting is expected to hold between November 2017 and March 2018. This was confirmed by the Nigeria Football Federation boss Amaju Pinnick in an address to the press.

Super Eagles winger Nura Mohammed, 15, made his professional debut for El Kanemi Warriors in their 1-0 loss to Enugu Rangers in the Nigeria Professional Football League on Sunday.

About a week ago, the youngster was on the bench as Nigeria were beaten by Morocco in the final of the African Nations Championship.

Despite El Kanemi Warriors losing to an 82nd minute goal scored by Kelvin Itoya, Nura Mohammed gave a good account of himself so much so that Rangers fans asked the players to pay special attention to the number 32.

Dutch club Fortuna Sittard suspended former Nigeria captain Sunday Oliseh on Wednesday afternoon due to his frosty relationship with players, staff and management of the club.

Oliseh had been under fire with the higher-ups at Fortuna Sittard with the club suffering four defeats in a row and he fell out with the owner of the club Isitan Gün, who was unhappy with his behavior

''Several attempts by the club to encourage a change in the coach's behaviour have unfortunately not worked, resulting in an unworkable situation," Fortuna Sittard said in a press release.

Arsenal will be without Alexandre Lacazette for four to six weeks due to injury - leaving Danny Welbeck as their only available senior striker in the Europa League.

The club confirmed their £52 million summer signing has undergone an arthroscopy on his left knee in London on Tuesday morning.

January purchase Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is ineligible to play Europa League football for Arsenal because he was registered in former club Borussia Dortmund's squad for the knockout stages.

Croatia manager Zlatko Dalić will monitor the high profile pre-World Cup friendly between Nigeria and England at the National Stadium in London as his side will be in the United Kingdom early June for a friendly.

Croatia will battle Brazil at the famous Anfield Stadium, the home ground of Liverpool, on June 3, a day after the Super Eagles clash with the Three Lions.

The friendly will assist the Croatians to prepare for their second Group D fixture against Argentina at Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod on June 21.