2018 World Cup: Amaju Pinnick To Commission France, Belgium Semi-Final Match

By Admin President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has been confirmed as the match commissioner for the 2018 FIFA World Cup first semi final match between France and Belgium in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday. The match will begin at 7pm Nigeria time. The potentially explosive clash at the 67,000 –capacity Zenit Arena will be the fifth match Pinnick would commission at the finals in Russia. He remains the only Nigerian involved at such high level of operation at the FIFA World Cup. That match will bring together some of the best players of the round leather game in the universe at the present, including France’s Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe, and Belgium’s Romelo Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard. The newly –appointed First Vice President of CAF will also commission the 2018 FIFA World Cup third place match in Saint Petersburg on Saturday this week. France defeated Uruguay 2-0 in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday while Belgium edged Brazil 2-1 in Kazan. The second semi final will take place at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow (venue of the Final match) on Wednesday, between England’s Three Lions and Luka Modric –led Croatia.