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ARGENTINA PLAYERS TOLD TO SEDUCE RUSSIAN LADIES! …FEDERATION APOLOGIES

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Nigeria’s main opposition a the tricky Group D of the World Cup, Argentina, appears to have other motives apart from football in Russia.

It was gathered from the Associated Press that the Argentina Football Federation distributed manuals to the players on ‘what to do to have a chance with a Russian girl’.

This is reliably contained in a World Cup manual prepared for the national players, coaches and media members. It gave tips on how to seduce Russian women.

But following social media backlash and outcry from anti-sexism groups, the Argentina Football Federation remarked that the statement was a printing error as their internal investigation revealed.

But AP claimed two of their journalists viewed the manual at a federation hosted World Cup course about Russian language and culture before it was replaced with a different manual shortly thereafter.

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The original manual encouraged Lionel Messi and his colleagues to “be selective” in their romantic pursuits.

One part  of the original manual reads: : “Because Russian women are beautiful many men only want to sleep with them … the advice is to treat the woman in front of you as if she is someone of value.”

Alejandro Taraborelli, head of the association’s education department, said in the statement: “The teacher responsible for the course selected information to give his assistants. Regrettably, at the time it was printed, there was the inclusion by mistake of a text that was never part of the course.”

World Cup competition begins June 14 in Moscow. Argentina, a two-time World Cup winner, will play Iceland, Nigeria and Croatia in the opening round.

 

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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