The Super Eagles squad that will line up against Egypt in the Africa
Nations Cup (AFCON) back-to-back qualifying matches next month will be
named on Thursday, according to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)
Nigeria will host Egypt on March 25 in Kaduna, while the return leg in Cairo will be played four days later.
Egypt leads a qualifying pool that also has Tanzania and Chad with six points from two matches, two points ahead of Nigeria.
Vice-chairman of the technical committee of the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF), Ahmed Yusuf ‘Fresh’, said the technical committee will
meet in Abuja on Thursday to vet the list of players to be submitted by a consortium of coaches led by Samson Siasia.
“We will meet on Thursday to look at the list of players submitted by the newly appointed coaches,” he said.
It is expected that a training camp will open early in the new month
with players are from the domestic league while the foreign-based
players expected to fly in by the Monday preceding the first game.
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