The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF President has confirmed that four international friendlies have been lined up for the Super Eagles.
The President was Speaking at the final of the NFF/Zenith Bank Under-15 Football Tournament at the Agege Stadium in Lagos on Tuesday.
The NFF boss Amaju Pinnick, confirmed that Eagles were going to take on the Three Lions of England at the Wembley Stadium on June 2, 2018.
He also revealed that another international friendly match has been fixed for May 27 for Eagles but did not confirm the country.
The NFF chief further hinted what would have been a fifth friendly fixed on June 6 was cancelled because of its closeness to June 16,the date Nigeria will play her opening group game against Croatia at the Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad, Russia.
“The fear of injuries also necessitated the cancellation of the June 6 date. The game will ordinarily have come up two days after the final 23-player squad lists would have been submitted.
We cannot afford to take that risk,” stressed Pinnick who is also a CAF executive committee member.
The 2018 Russia-hosted FIFA World Cup will take place in 11 Russian cities from June 14 to July 15 next year.
Nigeria is drawn in Group D and will open her campaign against Croatia.
This will be followed by Iceland on June 22 at the Volgograd Arena in Volgograd while a fifth World Cup group game against Argentina will hold at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg on June 26.
The Nigerian Federation Federation, NFF is holding talks with its Egyptian counterparts over the possibility of playing a pre-World Cup friendly in Abuja before the Super Eagles travel to Russia for the World Cup.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday said it has started looking into the issues which led to Nigeria being sanctioned by world football ruling body FIFA.
Former Super Eagles Coach, Christian Chukwu has described yesterday’s sanction on the Nations football by FIFA as a bad and has exonerated the Technical committee of blames.
Nigeria have been penalised with the loss of two points for fielding an ineligible Super Eagles player in a World Cup qualifying tie but this has not affected their appearance in Russia at next year’s finals.
The Nigeria Football Federation [NFF] has responded swiftly to the recent sanction placed on the federation by the world football governing body, FIFA.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been sanctioned for fielding an ineligible player in the match between Algeria and Nigeria on 10 November 2017.
The match is declared to be forfeited and awarded 3-0 in favour of Algeria, with the NFF also receiving a fine of CHF 6,000.
The sanction relates to the player Abdullahi Shehu failing to serve the automatic one-match suspension imposed on him as a result of receiving a caution in two separate matches of the same competition.
This sanction bears no impact on the final result of the preliminary competition for the FIFA World Cup since Nigeria had already qualified (and Algeria eliminated) before the match took place.
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