2026 World Cup: Thierry Henry apologises to Nigerians over ‘bad luck’ comments

Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry, has clarified his comments astir Nigeria that helium made astatine the ongoing 2026 World Cup.

Henry was speaking with fashionable streamer iShowSpeed, who wore an absorbing acceptable up of the lucifer betwixt the USA and Paraguay, which ended 4-1.

Speed wore a USA garment and Nigerian shorts to the stadium. Seeing that, Henry jokingly told him that it was atrocious luck.

However, Henry has claimed helium meant that wearing the kits of 2 antithetic teams is atrocious luck.

He said connected societal media: “I needed to clarify thing due to the fact that I don’t deliberation radical recognize erstwhile you accidental worldly sometimes oregon erstwhile a gag is simply a joke.

​”So I conscionable spoke yesterday astir the shorts of Nigeria and the apical of the US. I conscionable said to him that it is atrocious luck to interruption the set.

​”Could person been the shorts of France, Italy oregon Spain, I would person said the aforesaid thing. I was conscionable having a small gag with him, saying that it would beryllium atrocious luck. Not Nigeria is atrocious luck, but to interruption the set, due to the fact that you spell arsenic a set.

​”I adjacent said that I love...