Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is expected to visit the Super Eagles Camp on Tuesday evening to motivate the players for the match against Algeria.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria is taking the FIFA World Cup 2018 qualification aspirations of the Super Eagles seriously judging from the interest the leadership of the country is showing.
“The vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will attend the training session of the Super Eagles on Tuesday evening by 5pm at the training pitch of the National stadium, Abuja,” a top Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) official said.
Almost all the invited players have arrived the team’s camp and the Genort Rohr-led team, trained at the practice pitch of the Abuja national stadium on Tuesday Morning.
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It would be recalled that the Presidency bailed out the NFF from the financial challenges days before the team travelled to Ndola, Zambia for the opening game of the qualifiers which the Eagles won 2-1.
The Eagles now meets the desert warriors of Algeria, the team that stopped Nigeria from qualifying for the 1982 world Cup in Spain.
The game holds at the Uyo Stadium on November 12, 2019.
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