94 mins: Argentina running time down now and Messi earns a yellow card for wasting time. 92 mins: Third and final change for Nigeria as Musa, who has run himself into the ground in the match, is ...

Argentina and Nigeria aren’t World Cup strangers to one another. In USA 1994 and Korea/Japan 2002, La Albiceleste beat out the Super Eagles both times. Playing in their home continent, Nigeria will ...

First half-1, Argentina, Gabriel Ivan Heinze 1, 6th minute. Second half-None. Shots-Argentina 20, Nigeria 11. Shots On Goal-Argentina 7, Nigeria 1. Yellow Cards ...

Argentina began their 2010 World Cup with a win over a feisty, but ultimately lacking, Nigeria side. An early goal by left back Gabriel Heinze proved to be the difference as Lionel Messi, out to ...

Governance: Both Argentina and Nigeria are active members of the G15, a group of developing countries that seeks to foster South-South cooperation and promote reform in the global trade system. They ...

The final few minutes of Argentina’s calamitous loss to Croatia felt like a funeral. They felt like the end of an era. They felt like an end for Lionel Messi. The disaster reportedly provoked an ...

Inter Miami's Lionel Messi warms up before the Riyadh Season Cup soccer match between Inter Miami and Al Hilal at Kingdom Arena Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo) ...

John Obi Mikel, a midfielder and captain for Nigeria, has revealed that he played his country’s final group stage game, against Argentina, despite knowing that his father had been kidnapped. Pa ...

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — Nigeria captain John Obi Mikel played in a crucial World Cup match against Argentina four hours after being told his father had been kidnapped for ransom back home and would ...

Argentina won the FIFA World Youth Championship, defeating Nigeria, 2-1, on Lionel Messi’s two penalty kicks for a record fifth title on Saturday at Utrecht, Netherlands. The two goals also turned the ...

Argentina will play exhibition games against Nigeria and Ivory Coast in China next month, making it likely Lionel Messi will miss Inter Miami’s Major League Soccer game at the New York Red Bulls on ...