Traditionally, the Nigerian football team is considered one of the strongest teams on the African continent. For the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Nigerians were the first to qualify for the final among the African national teams. Numerous fans of Nigeria hoped that their national team would show good football on the fields of Brazil.
The Nigerians got not the most difficult group at the World Cup in Brazil. The rivals of the Africans were the players from the teams of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iran. It was the G Quartet at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The Nigerians played their first match against the Iranian national team. This game, perhaps, became the most uninteresting and uninteresting in the tournament. Both teams showed frankly weak football. The spectators never saw the goals in the match.
In the second round of the group stage, the Nigeria team was able to overcome the resistance of the Bosnians. The final score of the meeting is 1 - 0 in favor of African footballers. However, after the end of the meeting, the refereeing was criticized. In the game, there were several obvious mistakes of the referees in favor of Nigeria. However, three points were not taken away from the Nigerians.
In the final match of the group stage, the Nigeria team showed excellent performance. True, the Africans lost to the future championship finalists (Argentines) with a score of 2 - 3. But this defeat did not close the way for the Nigerians to the playoffs of the championship. From the second place in Group G, Nigeria advanced to the 1/8 finals of the tournament.
At the playoff stage, the French became the rivals of the Nigerians. The Europeans looked better, which led to a 2-0 victory for France. Thus, Nigeria was eliminated from the tournament from the round of 16.
For the fans of the African team and the country's football federation, qualifying from the group at the final of the football world championship can be seen as a very worthy result.
