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UKRAINE TO PLAY IN WHITE FOR THE FIRST TIME, NIGERIA IN OLIVE GREEN

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BY KUNLE SOLAJA.
For the first time, the Ukraine national team will put on white attire when they face Nigeria on Tuesday.

Ukraine shirts as set in the locker room ahead of clash with Nigeria. It’s the first time the team will wear white shirts.

Their traditional home colour has been blue and yellow. No reason was officially given for this, but Sports Village Square could guess it is to make the night match to be more television friendly to make their attire contrast sharply with Nigeria’ olive green which is the Super Eagles’ away strip.

The now familiar Nigeria’s away strip (right). Will the team win wearing this colour?

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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