{"id":438727,"date":"2011-06-09T11:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T11:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/nigeria-messi-must-play-against-eagles\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T11:26:47","slug":"nigeria-messi-must-play-against-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/nigeria-messi-must-play-against-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Messi Must Play Against Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"28.8502796973\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Efe<\/p>\n<p>9 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Bangladesh&#8217;s football federation president, Kazi Salahuddin said Wednesday that top Nigerian and Argentine stars must play in the September 6 friendly billed for Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Salauddin confirmed that the contract signed with both the Nigeria and Argentina federation made it mandatory for all their top players to be present for the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our $4 million contract with both sides says the Argentina team must include Messi,&#8221; he said, referring to the Barcelona attacker and world player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sight of Messi playing on our soil will be the best thing to have happened to Bangladesh football in many years. It will prompt a lot of boys to play football,&#8221; he predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The match in Dhaka &#8220;isa FIFA-approved international friendly. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like the Abuja match in which Nigeria took on an Argentina B side,&#8221; Salauddin said, referring to a match last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a competitive game with no chance of any betting or fixing,&#8221; he said, adding that suggestions the match might be fixed were &#8220;rubbish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangladesh game has been organised by India-based firm Celebrity Management Group, who have also set up a match between Argentina and Venezuela in Kolkata on 2 September.<\/p>\n<p>NFF spokesman Ademola Olajire confirmed yesterday that the Eagles will travel to Dhaka to honor the match.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106090724.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Messi Must Play Against Eagles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Messi Must Play Against Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ben Efe 9 June 2011 Bangladesh&#8217;s football federation president, Kazi Salahuddin said Wednesday that top Nigerian and Argentine stars must play in the September 6 friendly billed for Dhaka. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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