Monday, November 18, 2013
International Friendly: Nigeria vs Italy, Super Eagles in London
After clenching their World Cup
ticket on Saturday, the Super Eagles on Sunday evening arrived London ahead of
Monday’s all important grade A friendly against Italy in London. The match is
scheduled for Craven Cottage the home ground of Premier League side, Fulham. The
Nigerian National team departed Calabar venue of the match on Sunday morning at
about 8am via an Arik Air plane to Lagos. From Lagos, players and officials of
the team joined a Virgin Atlantic Airliner for the six hour trip to London. The
Super Eagles became Africa’s first qualifier after as they won 2-0 over Ethiopia
Calabar, Nigeria.
The team checked into the Hilton
Hotel in Cobham, by organizers of the friendly. Unfortunately, the team could
not train because of the cold weather and had to shift training to Monday
morning ahead of the game in the evening. Captain and goalkeeper Vincent
Enyeama led the team with the exception of Victor Nsofor who was ruled out of
the match due to the injury he sustainted in the WCQ play-off against Ethiopia
on Saturday, he is however with the team in London.
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