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IGHALO: PLEASE DON'T GO, PINNICK BEGS PLAYER TO REVERSE HIS DECISION.  President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Pinnick Amaju is hopeful that Ighalo will have a change of her after he had spoken to the player to reverse his decision. “I have had a chat with him and he has reversed this decision. He has been under a lot of pressure from his Chinese club. But everything is now fine and he shall continue with the national team.”   Ighalo noted: “My decision to retire from the @NGSuper Eagles stands. But the NFF President has spoken to me, to reverse the retirement. Out of respect for him and his position, I have had to listen to him. But I have not changed my position yet.” I was supposed to have retired after the @FIFAWorldCup in Russia, after which I received a lot of attacks. But I kept going until the #AFCON2019 and this, I decided, was going to be my last tournament for Nigeria.”   “I’ve been out for more than two months and my club in China has not been ...
CAF REVEALS AFCON PRIZE MONEY... AFCON Prize Money: African Cup of Nations champions Algeria have received $4.5 million, Senegal $2.5m, while third place contestants Super Eagles and Tunisia earned $2.m. Algeria lifted their second ever AFCON trophy after narrowly beating Senegal 1-0 in the final last Friday night. Following the end of the tournament, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have revealed the prize money for all participant countries.   As for hosts Egypt they will receive $670.000 following their disappointing elimination from the round of 16. The prizes will be distributed as follows:  * Angola and Kenya (Third place in group-stages): $620.000*   *Round of 16: $670.000 (Benin, Uganda, Egypt, Mali, Guinea, DR Congo, Cameroon and Ghana)*   **Quarter-finals: $800.000 (Madagascar, Ivory Coast, South Africa and Benin)*   *Semi-finalists: $2 million (Nigeria and Tunisia)*   *Senegal: $2.5 million.*...