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Photos: Nigeria World Cup kit sells out in minutes, fans queue

By Mutala Yakubu
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The new Nigeria home kit to be worn at the World Cup 2018 in Russia was sold out minutes after its release on Friday morning as hundreds of fans queued outside London’s NikeTown store in Oxford Street.

The kit, modelled by Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi amongst others, has been hailed as the best kit of all of those to be seen in Russia this summer, with Nike having to push the release date back earlier this week due to such high demand.

Fans have queued to buy the New Nigerian jerseyNike had already received three million pre-order for the shirt before it officially went on sale on Friday.

And the demand is so high that the kit sold out in minutes and is now unavailable to buy on the Nike website.

Nigerian Musician Wizkid and Arsenal forward Alex IwobiThe away kit is also now sold out, along with the training kit, which has a similar design to the home kit, two different types of training jackets and floral joggers.

Read also:Russia 2018: Nigeria under the spotlight

The shirt alone is priced by Nike at £64.95 and will likely be seen for the first time in action on Saturday evening when Nigeria face England at Wembley in the first of their World Cup qualifiers.

New Nigerian kitThe kit was deliberately one of the last released for the World Cup, with the Nigeria Football Federation attempting to avoid the spread of fake replicas throughout the country.

Alex Iwobi of NigeriaSource:independent.co.uk

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