Nigeria Amputee Football Team Thrashed 6-0 In First World Cup Game

Nigeria's amputee football team lost their opening match 6-0 to Brazil at the 2018 World Cup in Mexico on Sunday.

Seven of the Special Eagles' squad only landed in the city of San Juan de Los Lagos a few hours before.
The team will play Russia and El Salvador in their other group matches later this week. Ghana, Kenya, Liberia and Angola are the continent's other representatives in Mexico.
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick, the Super Eagles squad as well as the country's former vice-president Atiku Abubakar made significant financial contributions to get the squad to the city of San Juan de Los .

The Special Eagles will battle World Cup defending champions Russia who had beaten El Salvador 4-0 in their opening game, while Brazil takes on El Salvador for their second game of the group.

However, Angola showed what they are made of with a 4-0 spanking of Ukraine whereas Kenya fell 4-1 to former champions Turkey.