CHAN: Eagles off to Morocco today

A few days ago, Head
Coach Salisu Yusuf named a 23 –man team to fly Nigeria’s flag at the finals,
where the 2014 bronze medallists will play 2014 champions Libya, Rwanda and
Equatorial Guinea in Group C.
Team Administrator, Dayo Enebi Achor
said at the weekend that the delegation
will fly aboard a Turkish Airline flight from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport, Abuja, and connect Rabat from Istanbul
on Tuesday morning. “The team
will train for a few days in Rabat before heading to Tangier on Friday,
12th January,” Achor explained/ The
Ikechukwu Ezenwa –captained squad will take on Rwanda (hosts of the last
edition of the competition two years ago) at the Stade Ibn Batouta on Monday,
15th January, starting from 7.30pm
(8.30pm Nigeria time), before
games against Libya at the same venue on Friday, 19th January (starting from 4.30pm;
5.30pm Nigeria time) and
Equatorial Guinea in Agadir on Tuesday, 23rdJanuary (starting 7pm
Morocco time; 8pm Nigeria time). Nigeria failed to qualify for
the final competition of the first two editions of the CHAN, losing to Ghana in
2008 (ahead of Cote d’Ivoire 2009) and beaten on aggregate by Niger Republic in
2010 (ahead of Sudan 2011). The Class of 2014 led by Stephen Keshi (of blessed
memory) qualified after edging Cote d’Ivoire 4-3 on aggregate, and then
finished third in South Africa. In 2015, the team coached by Sunday
Oliseh also defeated Burkina Faso to qualify for the finals, but lost
out at group phase in the finals in Rwanda few months later. To reach the
finals this time, Salisu Yusuf’s wards edged Benin Republic 2-1 on aggregate.
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