African champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria, have been drawn in the
same group with two-time world champions, Argentina for the Brazil 2014
World Cup.At the final draw held in Costado Sauipe, Bahia, Brazil on Friday, Nigeria were placed in Group F along with Argentina, Iran and newcomers, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
From Diego Maradona to Gabriel Batistuta and now Lionel Messi, Nigeria have never had it smooth with Argentina at the World Cup level, losing to the South Americans by the odd-goal- 2-1 at USA ’94 World Cup, 1-0 at South-Korea-Japan 2002 and 1-0 at South Africa 2010.
However, Nigeria’s assistant coach, Daniel Amokachi, says he is happy to draw Argentina once again, saying Iran and Bosnia were the teams which could spring surprises.
“Argentina are world powers, so we don’t need anyone to tell us anything about them but the fact that both Iran and Bosnia qualified for the World Cup with outstanding results shows that they deserve everybody’s respect,’’ he said.
On June 12 2010 at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, Vincent Enyeama won the MVP Award as Nigeria lost an opening Group B match to Argentina courtesy of outstanding saves made off the feet of Argentina’s Lionel Messi
“The goalkeeper was phenomenal,” Messi said after the match. “He takes all the credit. We played a great game today and created a lot of chances. We just couldn’t get the second goal.”
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