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<\/p>\nAdemola Olajire, NFF\u2019s Director of Communications, said in a statement that invited players, technical crew and administrative staff, are expected to start arriving in Asaba, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
Olajire said the Eagles\u2019 backroom staff are expected to arrive in full on Sunday, with some players also expected, while the larger population of the players expected on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis first phase of camping will also take in a friendly match, against equally Egypt-bound Warriors of Zimbabwe, at the Stephen Keshi Stadium on June 8,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The NFF spokesman said the players and officials would travel to the Egyptian city of Ismailia the following day aboard a chartered flight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will stay at the Hotel Mercure and spend a full week perfecting tactics and strategies, before taking on Africa\u2019s number one-ranked team Senegal in another friendly in Ismailia.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn June 17, the three-time champions will travel to Alexandria, the venue of their Group B matches against Burundi, Guinea and Madagascar,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
25 EAGLES FOR AFCON 2019 CAMP:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers: Francis Uzoho (Anorthosis Famagusta, Cyprus); Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Katsina United); Daniel Akpeyi (Kaizer Chiefs, South Africa)<\/p>\n
Defenders: Olaoluwa Aina (Torino FC, Italy); Abdullahi Shehu (Bursaspor FC, Turkey); Chidozie Awaziem (Caykur Rizespor, Turkey); William Ekong (Udinese FC, Italy)<\/p>\n
Leon Balogun (Brighton & Hove Albion, England); Kenneth Omeruo (CD Leganes, Spain); Jamilu Collins (SC Padeborn 07, Germany); Semi Ajayi (Rotherham United, England)<\/p>\n
Midfielders: Mikel John Obi (Middlesbrough FC, England); Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City, England); Oghenekaro Etebo (Stoke City FC, England); John Ogu (Hapoel Be\u2019er Sheva, Israel)<\/p>\n
Forwards: Ahmed Musa (Al Nassar FC, Saudi Arabia); Victor Osimhen (Royal Charleroi SC, Belgium); Moses Simon (Levante FC, Spain); Henry Onyekuru (Galatasaray SK, Turkey); Odion Ighalo (Shanghai Shenhua, China)<\/p>\n
Alexander Iwobi (Arsenal FC, England); Samuel Kalu (Girondins Bordeaux, France); Paul Onuachu (FC Midtjyland, Denmark); Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City, England); Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal FC, Spain)<\/p>\n
Six on Standby: Theophilus Afelokhai (Enyimba FC); Bryan Idowu (Lokomotiv Moscow, Russia); Ikouwem Utin (Enyimba FC); Mikel Agu (Vitoria Setubal, Portugal); Junior Ajayi (Al Ahly, Egypt); Valentine Ozornwafor (Enyimba FC).\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigeria will begin camping ahead of the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations this Sunday, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said on Friday. Ademola Olajire, NFF\u2019s Director of Communications, said in a statement that invited players, technical crew and administrative staff, are expected to start arriving in Asaba, NAN reports. Olajire said the Eagles\u2019 backroom staff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7893,4046],"class_list":["post-122564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afcon2019","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}