The Chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation Technical and Development Committee, Barrister Chris Green, has assured Nigerians that the technical crew will fish out capable replacement for ailing Carl Ikeme.
Green admitted on Tuesday that last month’s acute leukemia diagnosis and ongoing treatment of Ikeme slightly jolted the Nigeria camp, but reiterated that the technical crew is on the right curve to have a capable and confident first choice and deputy on show for the two matches.
He said: “When Ikeme’s matter came up, we quickly moved to put heads together to salvage the situation. We will give him all the support to go through the treatment and come back strongly, but in the meantime, we have to come up with a couple of guys who can always rise to the occasion.
“That is why we have a new goalkeeper trainer to work with our own man, Alloy Agu, to see how to make world-class safe hands out of the goalkeepers in camp now in Kano for the African Nations Championship qualifying matches against Benin Republic.”