Siasia To Announce Team On Thursday

Head Coach Samson Siasia will unveil his Super Eagles squad for the crucial 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia at a press conference inside the NFF Secretariat, Abuja on Thursday.

“This is what we want to be doing now: announcing list of players for matches and competitions at official press conference. We will start on Thursday with the list of players for the Ethiopia game”, Siasia said on Monday.

The domestic League players, who had been in residential training for more than one month now, will be first to turn up at the team’s Bolton White Hotel, Abuja camp on Monday, March 14. Team officials including Samson Siasia will be there a day earlier, while the foreign based players are expected from Sunday, March 20.

Nigeria take on Ethiopia at the National Stadium, Abuja in a must-win qualifier on Sunday, March 27, starting from 7pm.

The Super Eagles are in second place behind Guinea in Group Four, with three points, as against the Guineans’ maximum of six. On the same weekend that the Eagles host Ethiopia, the Guineans are away to Madagascar in Antananarivo.