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WC QUALIFIERS: Nigeria marks 100 wins with defeat of Algeria, CAF reveals

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The Confederation of African Football, CAF has revealed that Saturday’s win over the Desert Foxes of Algeria marks Nigeria’s 100th in the history of World Cup qualifiers.

The continent’s football governing body, stated this on its website, CAFOnline.com adding, that CAF apart from the centenary win, the win also brought “plaudits for Rohr as this was his third straight win in as many matches after the 1-0 home win against Tanzania in August and 2-0 away win against Zambia in Ndola in October.”

Read also: RUSSIA 2018: Rohr targets going through Qualifiers unbeaten

The 100 wins had also won for the Super Eagles five World Cup appearances.

They debuted the competition in 1994 in USA with Clemens Westerhof, 1998 in France with Bora Milutinovic, 2002 in Japan/Korea with Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, 2010 with Lars Lagerback and 2014 with late Stephen Keshi.

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