Pierre Ghislain Atcho, a Gabonese has been appointed referee for next Tuesday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matchday eight encounter between South Africa, and Nigeria.
The highly anticipated encounter will hold at Toyota Stadium, Bloemfontein.
Atcho will be assisted by his compatriots; Boris Marlaise Ditsoga, Amos Abeigne Ndong and Cregue Fleury Moukagni ,who will serve as assistant referee 1, assistant referee 2, and fourth official respectively.
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Democratic Republic of Congo’s Olivier Safari Kabene will serve as the referee assessor, while Ugandan Mike Letti will be in the role of commissioner.
Chadian official Allaou Mahamat will be the referee for Saturday’s matchday seven encounter between Nigeria and Rwanda at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, with his compatriots Bogollah Issa, Moussa Hafiz and Abdelkerim Ousmane in the roles of assistant referee 1, assistant referee 2 and fourth official respectively.
Taher Abdelsalam Mahmoud from Egypt will serve as referee assessor while Bakary Jammeh from Gambia will be the commissioner.
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Easy win for Nigeria ijn. Come on guys!
Match never start, the parapo conspirators Lesotho are already losing at ‘home’ 1-0. Lol.
Same Lesotho that fought with their blood against super eagles..
Anyway, i blame Awoniyi and Boniface both strikers ruined our chances supposing Osimhen was fit at the early stages of the qualifiers or Dessers was called earlier we wouldn’t be in this situation sadly so.
Yes, Awoniyi and Boniface do not have any business in the Super Eagles.
Exactly. Some might disagree, but the predicament we find ourselves in was not really down to the coaches, but the players we used in the early stages.
Imagine a very unserious and I-don’t-care player like Boniface leading the line and Awoniyi with all his near misses. Get 10 chances, miss 9 or all 10.
Boniface, on his part, was always too heavy to turn quickly or always want to score pretty or spectacular flying header goals. I rewatched the first match against Lesotho, where we drew, and I was shaking my head at the players we used.
Uzoho was even the goalkeeper and Kelechi the captain. We were never serious from the beginning. 90% of that team can’t make the bench of the SE today. Even if FIFA deducts the 3 points and we catch up with SA, the goal difference might be an issue.
Hopefully, we notch up 6 points by Tuesday, then technically we’ll be on the same 13 points with SA, although they might have a goals difference advantage. But I trust Rwanda especially to get a point off them in March.
3-0 now. Job done for their brothers.
Lols all that talk from the South Africa coach was smokescreen. These people are crooks.
See what Rohr has achieved with Benin Republic imagine he is the coach of the super eagles!
Our football died the day we sacked Rohr!
Eagles are not going to this world cup you guys should forget it.
Beat Lesotho noway
Beat Zimbabwe noway
Beat south at home noway
Beat or draw benin noway
Abeg guys let’s take it with good faith, our guys don’t deserve mundial at all
We cannot defend one goal lead against Zimbabwe but Benin did it on a neutral venue.
Shame on Ekong and the whole super chickens sorry eagles!
Our boys shd just try and win our next matches and hope to be among the best 4 teams to play the play off, are we really expecting Lesotho to win SA on a norm?