Izuchukwu Okosi
The Super Eagles are scheduled to play a friendly game on Monday evening against Guinea’s Syli Nationale in Abu Dhabi as they prepare for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote D’Ivoire.
The three-time African champions had hoped to play Burkina Faso and Cape Verde in tuneup games ahead of the AFCON but the matches have suffered late cancellations.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelThe team’s head coach Jose Peseiro has had to come up with a slightly different team from the one he had named with Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi injured and in his stead comes Alhasan Yusuf.
Meanwhile, Kelechi Iheanacho, whose participation at the tournament was also in question will join the team in Lagos before they jet off to Abidjan.
The former Manchester City forward has been working on his fitness in an unnamed location in Lagos and feelers from the camp indicate that he will recover from the setback to make the trip.
Terem Moffi had been penciled down as the likely replacement for the ‘senior man’ as Iheanacho is affectionately called among his teammates.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
