Julius Okorie
Ahead of the first leg of their two-legged AFCON 2025 qualifier tomorrow, October 11, 2024, Super Eagles will have the final training today at the Nest of Champions Uyo, venue of the encounter.
Today’s training Primebusiness.africa understands will be behind closed doors to give them maximum concentration.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelCoach Austin Eguavoen is having the full compliments of his 23-man squad with all the invited players now fully in camp.
The last trio to hit camp viz Kelechi Iheanacho, Chidera Ejuke, and Bright Osayi-Samuel arrived on Wednesday October 9 at the camp located at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State to complete the number of invited players.
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The trio will be fully involved in the today’s final training aimed at paying eagle-eye attention on all departments of the team and picking the starting 11 for the Knights showdown.
Eguavoen and his consortium of assistants made up of Rangers head coach, Fidelis Ilechukwu and Remo Stars head coach, Daniel Ogunmodede, have brought in their combined wealth of experience since they were assembled to navigate Eagles course following the resignation of former coach, Finidi George and ill-fated contract to German tactician, Bruno Labbadia.
Their efforts has so far paid off with a 3-0 win over Republic of Benin led by former Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr and a goalless draw against Rwanda in Kigali.
The team will be hoping to consolidate in against Mediterranean Knights tomorrow before heading for the return leg in Libya on October 15.
Outright win for the Eagles will be an added advantage ahead of the second leg. Eagles currently lead the Group D of the qualifier with four points in two matches followed closely by Benin Republic, Rwanda and lastly Libya in that order.
While Nigeria will be slugging it out with Libya in Uyo tomorrow, Benin Republic will equally be locking horns with Libya at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan where the Cheetahs have adopted as their home ground.
All the matches lined up for tomorrow in the AFCON 2025 Qualifiers are as follows:
Friday, October 11, 2024
13:00: Eq Guinea v Liberia
13:00: Zambia v Chad
1300: Mozambique v Eswatini
14:00: Madagascar vs Gambia
16:00: Egypt v Mauritania
16:00: Nigeria v Libya
16:00: Benin v Rwanda
16:00: Cameroon v Kenya
16:00: Uganda v South Sudan
17:00: South Africa v Congo
19:00: Senegal v Malawi
19:00: Angola v Niger
19:00: Côte d’Ivoire v Sierra Leone
19:00: Mali v Guinea-Bissau
19:00: Tunisia v Comoros
19:00: Gabon v Lesotho
Julius Okorie is Chief Sports and Entertainment Correspondent for Prime Business Africa. He began his journalism career with the Champion Newspaper and Sporting Champion and later moved on to Daily Independent and the Nation Newspapers. Okorie joined Prime Business Africa in 2024 bringing on board 20 years of experience in writing investigative news on Sports and Entertainment. His well researched and highly informative articles on Sports Business and general entertainment are followed by a wide range of audience.
