NFF plots North African friendly for Super Eagles

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) may have set in motion plans to arrange an international friendly match for the Super Eagles during the next international break.

The move is informed by the presence of Egypt in the Eagles group, regarded as the team’s toughest opponents in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Egypt currently lead Group G of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations with six points from two games, two points ahead of Nigeria and both sides will meet in March, next year, in what will potentially be the games that might decided who heads to Gabon.

Only one team from each group will qualify for the tournament while the best second-placed team will join host Gabon and other qualifiers for the football fiesta.

“The NFF are working together with Sunday Oliseh to see if we can play a Northern African team before we meet Egypt next year,” an NFF insider revealed.

“You know it’s good to get a feel of what we are to expect there; it might not give us all the answers but we will learn a thing or two that will help us.

“I don’t know which of the teams we will play yet. It’s still in the pipeline, but when it’s confirmed I’m sure it will be made public then,” he added.

Nigeria, buoyed from a 3-0 win over Cameroon last weekend, will wait to see who they play in the preliminary round of the 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifiers.

The Super Eagles will meet the winner between Djibouti and Swaziland in November with the stars pointing at Swaziland who have a 6-0 first leg lead over Djibouti.