Nigerians craving for grade A
international friendly games for the Super Eagles will have to wait a
little longer. But there is light at the end of the tunnel for those
nursing this dream, sources at the Nigeria Football federation (NFF)
revealed to Sportinglife.
Decent sources at the Glasshouse informed Sportinglife
on Sunday night that England Football Association chief is favourably
disposed to having Nigeria’s senior side play their English
counterparts. But the snag is that the Three Lions are engaged with top
quality matches against Germany, Argentina etc until the middle of 2016.
But feelers suggest that England could
find space for the Nigerian game from the last quarter of the year
although this wish rests on if the England manager Roy Hodgson wants the
Nigerian game to help his side gel.
Meanwhile, Sportinglife can
reveal exclusively that Super Eagles chief coach Sunday Oliseh will
test his boys’ strength against Niger on September 9, inside the
main-bowl of the Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt.
Sportinglife scooped further that NFF chieftains are in the Garden City
to discuss with the Governor of Rivers State Barrister Nyesom Wike on
the modalities to ensure that the visitors from Niger get the
traditional Rivers hospitality when they arrive on September 8.
The Nigerien delegation will be arriving
from Burundi where they would engage the host in one of the AFCON 2017
Africa Cup of Nations(AFCON) qualifiers.
It was gathered that NFF chiefs are
excited about the Niger game with word rife that Oliseh wants to use his
team B players for the Port Harcourt thriller.
Oliseh confided in his employers that in
building a new team, it was always wise to prosecute such games against
Niger with fledging players on his list to see how they interprete the
strategies taught them before the game. Indeed, NFF men granted the
coach’s request.
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