Keshi wants USA for World Cup training

Nigeria’s Coach, Stephen Keshi, wants the African champions to use the United States of America as their pre-World Cup training base.
Football officials had previously floated the idea of training in Argentina, Colombia or the United States.
But Keshi says he has refined the list to two American cities: Miami or Houston.
He said this is because they are likely to have similar weather as Sao Paulo, the Brazilian city where the Super Eagles will be based for the tournament.
Nigeria are scheduled to begin their World Cup training on May 25.
Keshi said: “I have proposed that we camp in the United States because by the time we would be opening our camping, the US would have the same weather as Brazil.
“There are several US cities that would be hot like Brazil and would have the same temperature as Sao Paolo.”
He specifically identified Miami and Houston, which has a large Nigerian community.
Japan will most likely be one of Nigeria’s pre-tournament friendly opponents after they expressed a desire to test their readiness against the Eagles.
“While in Brazil for the draw, I was told Japan were interested in playing us, but I would also like to play countries like Peru,” Keshi said.
“Considering the countries we have in our group, I would love the Eagles to play countries from the region that have the same playing style,” he added.
“But it would also depend on the availability of such countries because some of them may have concluded their friendly arrangements already.”
Nigeria will face Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iran in the first round of next year’s World Cup.