SPORTS
AFCON 2019: Super Eagles arrive in Egypt, begin training for Senegal
friendly
Coaches and players
of the Nigerian national team landed in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on Sunday
night, Sporting Life reports.
Kelechi Iheanacho
and Oluwasemilogo Ajayi, who were dropped from the squad earlier in the day,
were the only two absentees.
The Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) allowed the Warriors of Zimbabwe with whom the Eagles
played a 0-0 draw in a friendly on Saturday, flew together with the Nigerian
contingent to Ismailia aboard a chartered MAX Air flight from Asaba.
The aircraft
refueled at the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano before heading for
Ismailia.
The three-time
African champions are staying at the Hotel Mercure in Ismailia where they will
spend one week before heading to Alexandria, venue of their Group B matches
during the championship.
Before then, the
Eagles will face Senegal’s Lions of Terranga in another warm-up clash on June
16.
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