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Super Eagles will begin their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign against the Barea of Madagascar, Completesports.com reports.
The Matchday One encounter is scheduled to take place at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, on Wednesday, September 23.
Eric Chelle’s side will then travel to Morocco for their second qualifying fixture against the Djurtus of Guinea-Bissau on Sunday, September 27.
The Taifa Stars of Tanzania complete the four-team qualifying group.
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Nigeria will head into the qualifiers as strong favourites to secure top spot, given their pedigree and impressive history in African football.
The three-time African champions finished third at the last edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, which was hosted by Morocco.
Chelle’s men were last in action in June when they faced Portugal in an international friendly.
The Super Eagles will be hoping to make a strong start to their qualifying campaign with maximum points against Madagascar in Uyo before turning their attention to the clash with Guinea-Bissau.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Now that the corrupt, “pay and play”, envelope chasing NFF Onigbese officials are gone, Chelle finally has the breathing room he needs to select the very best players that fit his game project.
NFF Ajewomasan is gone for good. Great situation for Chelle and Nigeria fans.
There is no more pressure to select certain players with “God Fathers”. No more brown envelopes. No more “Roger”. No more “come and see me”.
Hopefully, Chelle’s salary will now be paid consistently and on time.
Also, SE players no longer have to complain about match bonuses, because it will be paid immediately it is due.
This is what we need to motivate the coaches and players and get the maximum performance out of them.
I expect that Chelle will now select a killer squad. A squad that will produce good football and score a truckload of goals. Yes, we need goals, goals, goals!!!
Let’s see how it goes.
@Pompei, don’t be carried away, gentleman. Even the incoming ones might be worse than Pinnick and Gusau.
You see, young man, the system is so corrupt that everyone is fighting for their pocket kę.
You know how the system works because you have been following Nigerian football so long.
I believe if they allow Emelano, Olofinjana and the likes, then things might change a bit. Fingers crossed. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Is it angels from heaven that is coming to take over the same NFF? This corruption factor has been a recurring decimal at the glass house just that the ones leaving seemed to have taken it to another level with the failures they recorded across all tiers of our football. Don’t raise your hope too high.
With the caliba of players we have in our disposal, the next afcon should be our fourth trophy.
Imagine the confirm addition of femi azeez, ilenikhena, Adarabioyo to the current high flying super eagles, the trophy is ours.
I just wish chelle will look towards inviting onuche ogbelu to the midfield, it will balance every sheets in the team. I don’t trust tochukwu and Onyedika I see them as useless in tough times same with dele bashiru, they can only execute easy games. we can’t rely on them to win big games, No need hoping on them what chelle is looking for in the three of them is in the legs of ogbelu classic, He can easily come in for either Iwobi or Ndidi with ease and chelle will need no adjustment.
I can only trust Ndidi, Iwobi Frank and ogbelu, knowing this is knowing the afcon trophy because the midfield is very important to our afcon 2027 campaign.
Up coming super eagles formation.
Okoye
Aina adarabioyo bassey Bruno
Femi ndidi Iwobi lookman
Ilenikhena osimhen.
Five capable subs
Chukueze for femi.
Moses for lookman as usual,
Frank for Ndidi
Ogbelu for Iwobi
Adams for osimhen or ilenikhena.
2027 afcon is another big chance to be Africa champion again.
Omo komo, you and I are saying the same thing. So you too are carried away, lol.
My number one choice for NFF presido is Mr. Mike Emenalo.
If he is not available, then we have to put someone there who knows how to monetize football.
A football business professional, not a politician, not a thug in agbada.
Football is not just a sport. It’s big business. You need to do what big businesses do to thrive.
This is why ex footballers do not automatically qualify, because they know football inside out, but they don’t know business. They can function in a consultant capacity, but the business side has to be handled by business people.
NFF should not need funding from anywhere. They should be completely independent and self funding. They are sitting on a market of 250 million soccer crazy Nigeria fans! If they can’t monetize that, they have no business in the Glass House.
If anyone is interested in becoming NFF presido, they just have to answer one question – how will you generate football revenues for NFF? How the candidate answers determines whether the cap fits them or not.
Hopefully we are not going to get mr ricknick and gucciao pro max