The home-based Super Eagles started preparation for the 2025 Africa Nations Championship qualifier against Ghana in Abuja on Wednesday.
The training session took place at the FIFA Goal Project Pitch, Abuja.
The invited players underwent light physical training and tactical drills.
35 players are battling to be selected for the crucial encounter.
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The home-based Super Eagles are expected to engage in series of friendlies as they continue their preparation for the game.
Ghana will host Nigeria in the first leg between 20th-22nd December, while the return leg will hold in Nigeria a week later.
The winner over two legs will earn a slot at the CHAN 2025 which will be co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
The CHAN is set aside for footballers plying their trade in their country’s domestic League.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Hehehehe…..NFF/Eguavoen does not want to play shylock with the CHAN team’s preparations this time around because it’s the Technical Director that’s in charge.
Camp is already (albeit commendably) opening 2 months…..2 whole months b4 a qualifying game, but
other coaches get appointed to go prosecute entire tournaments within a matter of weeks and expected to perform miracles.
Why do I feel Eguavoen is a real mafioso.
Here he was, forcing Finidi to invite homebased players and play 94 style, telling him to stamp his feet on the players and be hard on them…..but got the job, threw away homebased invitations and 94 style (for the much maligned Peserio’s 343) without looking back or thinking twice, allowing the players to dictate to him and “express themselves”
The man seems to know and push to get the right recipe for success when and only when he’s the one involved.
The long term idea is to have the HB players in the SE team and discard the foreign born players. Just as they are now doing with falcons
E go so over them. If they had not misapplied the several billions they receive from FG, FIFA and CAF yearly, they’d have been self funded and able to pay flight tickets of our foreign pros. Flight tickets are now “too expensive” to pay for people who hardly play 12 matches a year (inclusive of championships), not counting bonuses and allowances. However, they ARE NOT EVEN SPENDING THEIR FATHER’S MONEY.
Sticking to home based players not exposed to the nuances of modern football as seen in the cadet teams, will hopefully tank this regime. 2 more years of this disaster class house is malfeasance already
The NFF shouldn’t do away with our foreign based players and foreign born players
What has always annoyed me is this home based vs foreign based classification.
Who cares where a player is based? All that is required is that the best players should be invited to the national teams!
Home based of today is praying to become foreign based tomorrow. When that happens, will invitation stop because home based is now foreign based?
As for the idea that flight tickets have become too expensive, that is why we need to focus more on home based, I’ve never heard a more ridiculous notion. Ok, so we can avoid paying for flight tickets for home games, but what about away games? Abi na trek we wan trek go play away match, or maybe we fit use Keke Napep or Okada. It has kuku happened before.
If money for flight ticket is the problem, NFF members should consider selling their kidneys to fund flight ticket purchase. Otherwise, they should do the right thing by spending money received from FIFA, CAF and other sources. The “THERE IS NO MONEY” excuse is getting old, and nobody is buying that anymore.