Nigeria’s coach Stephen Keshi blamed American referee Mark Geiger after his side lost 2-0 to France in the World Cup last 16 in Brasilia.<\/p>\n
Germany and France snuffed out African hopes after both European powerhouses left Africa with no teams to support.<\/p>\n
France beat\u00a0African champions Nigeria 2-0 and Germany secured their 2-1 victory over Algeria in extra time.<\/p>\n
Joseph Yobo from Nigeria scored an own goal to add to France’s 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n
It was the first time two African teams had reached the second round.<\/p>\n
Both black teams\u00a0went out within hours of each other to leave the continent still struggling to make an impact despite many teams including black players.<\/p>\n
SABC commentators in South Africa openly favoured only-black teams in the competition, often making it a case of\u00a0racial pride.<\/p>\n
Many Nigerian supporters however, wore white-face to cheer their team.<\/p>\n
Keshi opined at\u00a0his post-match press conference at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium. \u201cI’m not happy with the officiating,\u201d because\u00a0Emmanuel Emenike had a first-half goal ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n
Replays show however that\u00a0the call was correct.<\/p>\n
Keshi also complained that France had been allowed to get away with certain\u00a0offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigeria’s coach Stephen Keshi blamed American referee Mark Geiger after his side lost 2-0 to France in the World Cup last 16 in Brasilia. Germany and France snuffed out African hopes after both European powerhouses left Africa with no teams to support. France beat\u00a0African champions Nigeria 2-0 and Germany secured their 2-1 victory over Algeria … Continue reading “Nigerian coach blames white US referee for Africa’s loss”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,667,123],"tags":[854,654,2470,9345,476,9344,3377],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sport","category-world","tag-africa","tag-football","tag-nigeria","tag-racial-pride","tag-soccer","tag-stephen-keshi","tag-world-cup"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14521,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions\/14521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}