Jollof Derby, Mane’s Senegal Booked Place In Qatar And How African Teams Build From There

The fight for whose “jollof rice” taste better has gone beyond food competition between Nigeria and Ghana, they are considered rivals and has often compared themselves outside football, it was a big disappointment for Nigerians who think highly of this national team after the German coach, Rohr was sacked by NFF, looking to find new direction after their performance in afcon held in Cameroon, the Black Stars of former Gold Coast made their way to Qatar in the expense of the Super Eagles in jollof derby.

It has been a long fight between Mane’s Senegal and Salah’s Egypt, the former has continued to dominate his teammate at Liverpool in a closely contested tie between the two countries. Mohammed Salah joined the big names to miss out, en route to Middle East, while Mane takes Senegal to Qatar as they look to inspire, Cisse will be building the lads up for bigger task in Qatar if they are to go far. It is going to be serious one for any African teams involved, as they keep their keep eyes on the biggest football prize.

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The three-time Africa Cup Nations winners, missing out in 2006 edition of FIFA World Cups and now to their closest and bitter rival, there is no road to Qatar for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, in a time where Ghana is looking for redemption after their group stage exit in afcon, has seen something to build on, to compare to Nigerian team packed with stars. Ghana eliminating Super Eagles in the country’s capital shows much of a noisy neighbor Nigeria team has become, where Super Eagles goes from here, is going to be the big question for the moment they are just the pieces of their broken selves while Ghana has settled the jollof derby.

The Super Eagles coach, Augustine Eguavoen seems to have restored the believe in home coach, which has swung the national team in different direction in search of revival for the team, when the hope was really high on golden generation, it was quickly thrown into the bin.  African teams pushing to go farther as much as they can, FIFA World Cup has not featured any African team as finalists, and the continent is looking to build from that, in a world of football where they can be unprecedent shock exits African teams will be piping up pressure to make themselves hard to break.

The issue of human right in Qatar ahead of the World Cup has been characterized, as football greatest scandal. The Dutch manager, Louis Van Gaal has undermined the choice of location, which he said was motivated by money. English fans have hinted on possibility of boycotting the tournament, which was built on human right abuse, chronic corruption and death. Although FIFA has responded that is inspired by adequate representation in football, especially to Asian side which has never hosted the tournament before.