The Nigeria Football Association has assured that the likes of Odion Ighalo, Brown Ideye and John Obi Mikel will get ample national team opportunities despite switching to the Chinese Super League.
The ongoing African Nations Cup tournament has been exciting to watch, with surprises everyday. Countries have started qualifying for the quarter finals and Gabon have been an excellent host. Nigeria, one of the biggest footballing countries in Africa and the Rainbow Nation – South Africa – were missing from the list of countries that would feature.
Defending champions of the African Women Cup of Nations Nigeria has reached the semi finals stage of the ongoing tournament in Cameroon.
It is a truth that Nigeria’s football is experiencing a poor moment at the moment.
For some more interesting news in the Nigerian football world, there has been a sacking by a federal high court ruling against the Nigeria Football Federation.
This news come out of left field for many fans who are still left speculating as to what the cause was and why this would even need to be done.
Nigeria will have to beat Egypt in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Egypt leads the table with 2 points and with only the group winner qualifying for Gabon 2017, it is important that Nigeria wins this game.
Nigeria may have achieved some decent set of results since Sunday Oliseh became the manager of the national team in July 2015.
Nigeria recently brought back Stephen Keshi for yet another spell in charge of the national team.
He watched his team manage a convincing 2-0 win over Chad in a qualification match for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations. Nigeria won the tournament under the regime of Keshi. However, he left the national team after the end of the World Cup 2014 but he was brought back just a few months later. Since his return to lead the team following a disappointing Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria have set the target of reclaiming the title once again.
Nigeria are finally expected to do big things at the World Cup 2014, but manager Stephen Keshi has thrown a major bombshell by saying that he does not still know which players will be making it into the final squad for the competition. Nigeria are going through their best phase in the last 20 years since the team has a lot of quality and most of the players are young. The presence of players like Victor Moses and John obi Mikel helped the nation lift the African cup of nations for the first time in more than two decades.
Nigeria's national team manager Stephen Keshi has hailed his team after they managed to come back from three goals down to win the match 4-3 in the second half. Nigeria were playing against Morocco in the African nations championship, which is a tournament meant for players playing in Africa. Nigeria recently won the African cup of nations for the first time in almost 2 decades.