From Russia With Love: My World Cup Photo Documentary

abacha · Post by **abacha** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:12 pm

All,

Hello. On my To-Do-List, I had two things which were football related. One was to watch a live FIFA World Cup match and the other was to watch the great Lionel Messi play in the flesh. When FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, I decided that I would skip the competition.

But after Nigeria defeated Zambia in October 2017 to become the first African country to qualify for the World Cup, I made up my mind to go irrespective of what lay ahead for me in Russia. In November 2017, I bought my tickets during the first phase of ticket sales and was allocated tickets to watch all of Nigeria’s group stage matches.

Click the link below to see my photo documentary of my first World Cup experience.

https://bit.ly/2vNvaAq

Happy viewing and feel free to share with your contacts.

Viva Nigeria
Viva Super Eagles.

abacha · Post by **abacha** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:13 pm

From Russia With Love: My World Cup Photo Documentary

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All,

Hello. On my To-Do-List, I had two things which were football related. One was to watch a live FIFA World Cup match and the other was to watch the great Lionel Messi play in the flesh. When FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, I decided that I would skip the competition.

But after Nigeria defeated Zambia in October 2017 to become the first African country to qualify for the World Cup, I made up my mind to go irrespective of what lay ahead for me in Russia. In November 2017, I bought my tickets during the first phase of ticket sales and was allocated tickets to watch all of Nigeria’s group stage matches.

Click the link below to see my photo documentary of my first World Cup experience.

https://bit.ly/2vNvaAq

Happy viewing and feel free to share with your contacts.

Viva Nigeria
Viva Super Eagles.

Chief Ogbunigwe · Post by **Chief Ogbunigwe** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:23 pm

abacha wrote:From Russia With Love: My World Cup Photo Documentary

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All,

Hello. On my To-Do-List, I had two things which were football related. One was to watch a live FIFA World Cup match and the other was to watch the great Lionel Messi play in the flesh. When FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, I decided that I would skip the competition.

But after Nigeria defeated Zambia in October 2017 to become the first African country to qualify for the World Cup, I made up my mind to go irrespective of what lay ahead for me in Russia. In November 2017, I bought my tickets during the first phase of ticket sales and was allocated tickets to watch all of Nigeria’s group stage matches.

Click the link below to see my photo documentary of my first World Cup experience.

https://bit.ly/2vNvaAq

Happy viewing and feel free to share with your contacts.

Viva Nigeria
Viva Super Eagles.

Excellent! Glad you had fun. Two comments:

1. Why did you adopt the moniker Abacha?
2. LOL @ 2 hrs of darkness in St. Petersburg. They actually sometimes have white nights.... ask those of us who fasted in Ramadan under those conditions

JuJuMan · Post by **JuJuMan** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:30 pm

Awesome pictures

blueangel · Post by **blueangel** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:32 pm

B E A U R I F U L

Abacha, than you for posting .

AreaDaddy · Post by **AreaDaddy** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:08 pm

Abacha! Abacha! Abacha!

How many times did I call...bros If you don't move this post to Eagles Nest with automatic alacrity na fight...

Wonderfully written blog and beautiful pictures. Anyway we sabi your work from time

obaGol · Post by **obaGol** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:30 pm

These were great. Thanks for sharing.

maceo4 · Post by **maceo4** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:55 pm

Nice one man

Field Marshall Ogolo · Tue Aug 07, 2018 9:51 pm

abacha wrote:All,

Hello. On my To-Do-List, I had two things which were football related. One was to watch a live FIFA World Cup match and the other was to watch the great Lionel Messi play in the flesh. When FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, I decided that I would skip the competition.

But after Nigeria defeated Zambia in October 2017 to become the first African country to qualify for the World Cup, I made up my mind to go irrespective of what lay ahead for me in Russia. In November 2017, I bought my tickets during the first phase of ticket sales and was allocated tickets to watch all of Nigeria’s group stage matches.

Click the link below to see my photo documentary of my first World Cup experience.

https://bit.ly/2vNvaAq

Happy viewing and feel free to share with your contacts.

Viva Nigeria
Viva Super Eagles.

Well written! Great article.

Amen · Post by **Amen** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:37 pm

Well done!

Undertaker · Post by **Undertaker** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:10 am

Great picture Sir. Thank you for representing us in Russia. If only more of us could have made the trip. We were the worst supported African team in Russia.

Heliopolis · Post by **Heliopolis** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:34 am

Thanks for sharing. Great photos and well written.

I'm glad you had a great time there just like every other person I met in Russia. I'm also happy to learn you did not experience any racism or poor treatment by the locals. I myself was apprehensive about racism when I visited a few years back but learned much about what we hear about Russia in the west is fake news. I encouraged folks on this website to attend the World Cup but the common refrain here was that Russia was inhospitable to coloured folks. I spent 5 weeks there and just like you was greeted by folks who were more interested in yelling 'Mohamed Salah', asking me where I was from, and asking me about my thoughts of their country than they were in treating me poorly due to my skin colour.

Just as a quick aside, the Argentine fans in Russia were boring compared to the ones in Brazil 2014. My hunch is only the richer folks could attend so they were not as rowdy as the 'common' folks who crossed the border to attend the last World Cup. Nonetheless, the banter between the Argentines and Brazilians was great in Russia, and persisted even until the very end of the tournament. After the semi-final in Saint Petersburg (2 weeks after you were there), the Brazilian fans were outside the stadium chanting their lungs away even though they had already been eliminated (they bought tickets for the match expecting their country to be there)...the Argentine fans then started their own chants just meters away which was hilarious to watch. Stadium security tried to get everyone to leave, and with their limited resources resorted to turning on some sort of siren device and screaming in the bullhorn "Dear football fans, please go home". The party was 24/7 in Russia

While I'm not pleased that Qatar is hosting the next WC, and in fact they should NOT be hosting it, I encourage everyone with the means to be there for the simple fact there is absolutely nothing on the planet like attending the World Cup. Words cannot describe how amazing it is.

Heliopolis · Post by **Heliopolis** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:36 am

Undertaker wrote:Great picture Sir. Thank you for representing us in Russia. If only more of us could have made the trip. We were the worst supported African team in Russia.

Some dudes in here claimed that Nigerians were out in full force in Saint Petersburg

There were way more Egyptians, Tunisians, and Moroccans in Russia than Nigerians. The Senegalese fans were also thin in numbers.

Lager-back · Post by **Lager-back** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:26 am

good stuff

abacha · Post by **abacha** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:13 am

Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:
abacha wrote:From Russia With Love: My World Cup Photo Documentary

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All,

Hello. On my To-Do-List, I had two things which were football related. One was to watch a live FIFA World Cup match and the other was to watch the great Lionel Messi play in the flesh. When FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, I decided that I would skip the competition.

But after Nigeria defeated Zambia in October 2017 to become the first African country to qualify for the World Cup, I made up my mind to go irrespective of what lay ahead for me in Russia. In November 2017, I bought my tickets during the first phase of ticket sales and was allocated tickets to watch all of Nigeria’s group stage matches.

Click the link below to see my photo documentary of my first World Cup experience.

https://bit.ly/2vNvaAq

Happy viewing and feel free to share with your contacts.

Viva Nigeria
Viva Super Eagles.
Excellent! Glad you had fun. Two comments:

1. Why did you adopt the moniker Abacha?
2. LOL @ 2 hrs of darkness in St. Petersburg. They actually sometimes have white nights.... ask those of us who fasted in Ramadan under those conditions

Thanks. When I joined I was thinking of a controversial moniker and thought Abacha would be the best bet. I do not and have never condoned his evil deeds.

abacha · Post by **abacha** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:20 pm

AreaDaddy wrote:Abacha! Abacha! Abacha!

How many times did I call...bros If you don't move this post to Eagles Nest with automatic alacrity na fight...

Wonderfully written blog and beautiful pictures. Anyway we sabi your work from time

Thanks, Area Daddy

jette1 · Post by **jette1** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:26 pm

ol boi you try
but messi is ok, won't necessarily use great

Post by **juventuss** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:49 pm

Beautiful story and awesome pictures.

tfco · Post by **tfco** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:01 pm

nice story
i miss Brazil

5 games sweet o
DNA no good o

theYemster · Post by **theYemster** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:48 pm

tfco wrote:

nice story
i miss Brazil

5 games sweet o
DNA no good o

What does DNA mean...Did Not Attend?

heavyd · Post by **heavyd** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:06 pm

Great stuff Bro

Pity we couldn't meet up in Russia

Those guys at Volgograd airport on the way to Russia are my guys!
I stayed with them a few days in Moscow.

abacha · Post by **abacha** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:12 pm

heavyd wrote:Great stuff Bro

Pity we couldn't meet up in Russia

Those guys at Volgograd airport on the way to Russia are my guys!
I stayed with them a few days in Moscow.

Really?

skillful · Post by **skillful** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:38 pm

Give this man some accolades.

Cybereagles