More than 1000 Nigerian fans vowed to kill Kaita over Greece match defeat

The Nigerian team has asked its government to provide security for midfielder Sani Kaita after his red card during a World Cup loss to Greece prompted more than 1,000 death threats.

Nigeria team spokesman Idah Peterside tells The Associated Press on Sunday that Kaita has received the death threats via e-mail from Nigeria since he was sent off for kicking out at Greece’s Vassilis Torosidis in the 33rd minute of Thursday’s 2-1 loss at Bloemfontein.

“We just hope that the government will treat these threats as a serious matter,” Peterside says.

Nigeria’s Sports Minister Ibrahim Bio is staying in the team’s hotel in South Africa and has been alerted to the threats, Peterside says.

Maybe a mad action deserves a mad reaction, but we need to be careful in Nigeria so that soccer madness does not consume us and mar the fun of soccer in the end.

It is very clear that Kaita acted stupidly and unprofessionally.

The boy no Kolo,Just like other super Chickens.

Kaita was such a fool to have acted the way he did .For football loving fans they should decide on what to do to him. But does he deserve to live? Check him well,he could be another SOCCER HARAM man in the making.

Kaita was such a fool to have acted the way he did .For football loving fans they should decide on what to do to him. But does he deserve to live? Check him well,he could be another SOCCER HARAM man in the making. Watch him.

I think we still have a long way to go if our reaction is: kill, kill, kill, to anything and every thing we are not pleased with.
I bleed silently in my heart if I see my brothers on this forum joining in the thoughtless acts natural to Touts and hooligans, who we are trying to correct and make realise that they are equal stakeholders in this nation.
He was stupid and foolish yes. He will live with that for the rest of his life. Will that not be punishment enough to know that Nigeria's soccer history will tell of his stupidity to generations unborn?