The Super Eagles are top of their qualification group with nine points out of four matches, followed by Guinea Bissau
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Francis Uzoho retained his place in goal and will get cover from Calvin Bassey, William Troost-Ekong, Semi Ajayi and Ola Aina.
CAF slammed a one-game ban on Nigeria following crowd trouble in their final World Cup qualifying game against Ghana.
Christopher represented Nigeria at youth and senior levels, playing for the Super Eagles between 2001 and 2002, during which he amassed a total of 11 caps. He was in Nigeria’s squad to the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals in Korea/Japan, featuring in the 0-0 draw with England at the Osaka Nagai Stadium.
One of the players is Alex Iwobi, who pulled out of the Super Eagles squad for this month’s games against Central African Republic after picking up an injury.
Describing the victory as well-deserved and timely, the Senate Chief Whip stressed that the national team demonstrated football expertise during the match.
In the ranking table released by the world football governing body on Thursday, the Nigerian team retained the 1474 points it had in the month of December.
Musa, who was introduced in the second half of Nigeria’s one nil loss to African champions, Algeria, on Friday, will lead the attack along with Kelechi Iheanacho
Mikel, who agreed that the team had a disappointing outing against Argentina in the last group D match at St. Petersburg Stadium on Tuesday, disclosed this at a post match conference.
Ikechukwu Ezenwa was impressive in goal for Nigeria as he started from where he stopped in Uyo with lot of brilliant saves.
There are a number of prominent Nigerian football administrators working at the tournament, including Etubom Paul Bassey (General Coordinator); High Chief Emeka Inyama, the Chairman of the NFF Marketing, Sponsorship and Television Advisory Committee (who is working as a Media Officer); Aisha Falode (also working as Media Officer); and Samson Adamu (Assistant General Coordinator)
In a bid to grab the winner, the Cote D’Ivoire technical crew, led by Hervé Renard, threw more bodies upfront and pressurised the Super Eagles side in the second half
The state’s Commissioner for Sport and Youth Development, Honourable Patrick Ugbe, spoke on behalf of the Governor who was away in Brazil as part of Federal Government’s delegation to the opening day of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
The Stoke City striker says having been welcomed back in to the Nigerian fold he feels it is another chance for him to impress on the international stage
About 10,000 Nigerians living in the city of Sao Paulo have been encouraged to rally round the Super Eagles of Nigeria and cheer them to envisaged victories at the 2014 World Cup holding in Brazil
He said: “We came with a game plan to make the first half goalless.
“But when Nigeria scored in the 45th minute, we knew it was over