Going by the sparkling performance of the players in camp
and a strong case made by Super Eagles boss, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, the
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), leadership has agreed that all 25 players who
have been in camp in the last week for the duel against Congo this weekend and
South Africa next Wednesday can make the trip to Congo.
An obviously happy Keshi, who spoke through his assistant, Dan ‘the Bull’ Amokachi and team
administrator, Dayo Enebi Achor, announced that the team will also be led by
NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, but will have such eminent personalities as the
Senate Committee Chairman on Sports, Sen Ibrahim Gumba and a member of the
House of Representatives Committee on Sports, Hon Mudashiru Oyetunde on board
the flight to Congo.
The chartered Discovery Airliner is expected to take
approximately three hours to get to Congo Brazzaville, with departure time set
for midnight Nigerian time. A couple of Nigerian sports journalists from the
print and electronic media are also on the trip to Congo.
From the team angle, it was another rigorous session by Head
Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi on Thursday morning as the team finalsied preparation
for the trip to Congo. He juggled players between the Possibles and the Probables,
that practically made it impossible for anyone to guess his start list for the
game against the hard tacking Congolese. Thursday session was closed to the
media, even as some still sneaked into the mainbowl of the National Stadium
arena in Abuja to pick the last minute brains of the technical crew.
Keshi simply said at the end of the training session that
the team has worked hard enough and the result will show on Saturday. “Tell
Nigerians to just pray for the team and have the believe that we can deliver”,
he declared.
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