{"id":23636,"date":"2020-04-07T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23636"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:29:30","slug":"westerhof-sold-nigerias-game-against-italy-at-usa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/westerhof-sold-nigerias-game-against-italy-at-usa-world-cup","title":{"rendered":"Westerhof Sold Nigeria\u2019s Game Against Italy At USA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Former Super Eagles technical adviser Bonfrere Jo has blamed the team\u2019s exit at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States of America on the erstwhile handler of the side Clemens Westerhof.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles agonisingly lost 2-1 to Itlay in their second round match in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time African champions were a minute away from recording a famous victory against the Italians before Roberto Baggio netted the equalising goal.<\/p>\n<p>Baggio then struck from the spot in extra time to hand victory to Arigo Sacchi\u2019s men.<\/p>\n<p>Bonfrere, who was Westerhof\u2019s number two at that time has come out to say that the latter sold the game to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes Everyone blames the coach. The coach did something wrong and we lost before the game started,\u201dBonfrere revealed in an interview with Brila FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sold the game for $100,000, that\u2019s why we lost against Italy. If you don\u2019t believe, you can ask the players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Super Eagles technical adviser Bonfrere Jo has blamed the team\u2019s exit at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States of America on the erstwhile handler of the side Clemens Westerhof. The Super Eagles agonisingly lost 2-1 to Itlay in their second round match in the competition. The three-time African champions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-23636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Westerhof Sold Nigeria\u2019s Game Against Italy At USA World Cup - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/westerhof-sold-nigerias-game-against-italy-at-usa-world-cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Westerhof Sold Nigeria\u2019s Game Against Italy At USA World Cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Super Eagles technical adviser Bonfrere Jo has blamed the team\u2019s exit at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States of America on the erstwhile handler of the side Clemens Westerhof. 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