Nigeria may not be favourites for the World Cup, but they seem to have won fans over with their new kit for Russia. Three
million people pre-ordered replica shirts, according to the Nigeria
Football Federation, and shoppers queued outside Nike's flagship store
in London on Friday to try to get their hands on the clothing.
The home and away shirts, priced at £64.95, were sold out on the sportswear giant's website soon after they were released.
Arsenal's
Alex Iwobi is among the players who modelled the kit, which was first
revealed back in February, along with Leicester's Wilfried Ndidi, who
wore a branded bucket hat and jacket for the promotional photos.
The
makers describe the home kit as a "subtle homage to Nigeria's '94
shirt, with its eagle wing-inspired black-and-white sleeve and green
torso".
The away kit, meanwhile, is a "cool, refined vision" of a classic full-green strip.
Nigeria
are set to wear their new shirt when they face England in their World
Cup warm-up game at Wembley on Saturday (17:15 BST).
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