Portugal have proposed by a 2026 FIFA World Cup friendly with the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Completesports.com reports.
The proposed friendly is scheduled to hold on Saturday, 6 June.
Portugal’s capital, Lisbon is expected to host the game.
The football federations of both Portugal and Nigeria have agreed on this friendly in principle with details to soon be finalised.
The Super Eagles failed to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but caught the eye with their impressive performance at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
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Eric Chelle’s side display in Morocco has made them an attractive opposition for teams that will be participating at the World Cup.
The encounter will serve as part of Portugal’s preparation for the mundial.
The Super Eagles will use it to shape up for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
Portugal defeated Nigeria 4-0 the last time both countries met in a friendly in November 2022.
Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes grabbed a brace for the Selecao, while Gonçalo Ramos and João Mário scored the other goals.
By Adeboye Amosu
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More good things will come. We have been accepted as a worthy opponent.
Eric Chelle should be retained to guide this team for the next five years.
We don’t want jobbers and opportunists, please!
Nff should accept this a prosecute with our grade A team this how you can gain your worthiness back.
We actually might not need to play in world cup before we can move up in fifa ranking.
Winning a fifa recognise grade A friendly like this one can shoot us up.
Our strategies towards everything has always been wrong.
Imagine se defeating the like of Portuga, Croatia, Mexico, USA, Morocco in friendly match, we will ride on this to move up in fifa ranking.
What our nff will be doing is to be organising friendly match with Lesotho, four nation tournament with Solomon Islands, and the rest.
Aza men dem go gree?
That’s the problem we have.
Now that things are good again, their instinct is to smash that self destruct button. Imagine the technical director saying he’s DISAPPOINTED with Chelle for not having a quota for home based players? That’s the destructive mindset. If we survive this ONIGBESE NFF, the team will go places.