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Nigeria's Super Eagles Pius Ayinor and Idris Adesina Super Eagles will know their opponents today (Friday) as the draw for Russia 2018 World Cup holds at the CAF headquarters in Cairo. The 20 qualified teams have been drawn into four pots according to their rankings. Nigeria are in Pot 2 along with Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, DR Congo and Mali. Only the winners of the five groups would progress to the Russia 2018 World Cup. World football governing body FIFA has retained the original seeding for the draws as against the special rankings that had been announced for the draw. The FIFA Emergency Bureau for the World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday stated that protests from member associations called for the review of the seeding. Egypt earlier protested the seeding released on June 7, which put them in the same pot with Nigeria but, the Nigeria Football Federation officials confirmed that they also filed a protest to FIFA, insisting that Nigeria deserved to be in Pot 1. FIFA h...

If reports in the UK are anything to believe, then former Chelsea manager, Roberto Di Matteo will return to England as manager four years after he was sacked by Chelsea in 2012. According to reports in The Sun UK, Di Matteo could be announced coach of relegated Premier League side, Aston Villa in the next 48 hours. The English tabloid says it can “reveal the 45-year-old Italian has been notified the job of returning Villa to past glories is his, following a positive meeting with Villa chairman Steve Hollis last Thursday.” The report continued: “Hollis was “bowled over” by Di Matteo after meeting the former Chelsea and Italy midfielder for the first time and moved swiftly over the weekend to finalise the finer details of Di Matteo’s £35,000-a week contract. “Those negotiations are expected to conclude within 48 hours after Di Matteo’s blueprint for the future delighted Villa’s new owner in waiting Tony Xia.” Xia repor...