Rohr super eagles players list Mikel, Chukwueze, 23 Others In Super Eagles’ AFCON 2019 Provisional Squad
In super
eagles players list Coach Gernot Rohr has remembered Mikel John Obi, in a 25-man squad to prepare
for the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations finals in Egypt this summer. The winger Ahmed Musa and defenders; Kenneth
Omeruo and Abdullahi Shehu in his reliever.
Captain Mikel of 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Russia , has
not yet been with the group since Nigeria’s 2-1 defeat to Argentina in Saint
Petersburg. But according to the Reporting Department of the Nigeria Football
Federation, a recent meeting with Coach Rohr in the United Kingdom secured
Mikel’s return to the three–time African champions. Rohr has mostly kept faith
with the Trojans who earned a ticket to the AFCON 2019 finals with a match to
spare, with super eagles players list
like goalkeeper Francis Uzoho, defenders Leon Balogun and William Ekong;
midfielders Oghenekaro Etebo and Wilfred Ndidi, and aheads Odion Ighalo, Alex
Iwobi and Moses Simon also on the roll call.
Rohr has
also put on standby six super eagles
players list namely; defenders
Ikouwem Utin and Valentine Ozora Nwafor who have also been named in Nigeria’s
final 21 for the FIFA U-20 World Cup begin in Poland next week.
The
Franco-German export explained to
thenff.com that he has included the two players knowing the FIFA U-20 World Cup
will end on 15thJune, six days before
the first match will be started at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
2018 FIFA
World Cup guard Bryan Idowu is also on
reserve, along with Portugal–based Mikel Agu and Egypt-based Junior Ajayi, and
home–based goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokha.
At the Golden Tulip Hotel,all lead players and officials announced, on
Sunday, 2nd June ahead of the friendly with the Warriors of Zimbabwe at the
Stephen Keshi Stadium on Saturday, 8th June.
The team
will leave for Egypt on Sunday, 9thJune aboard a chartered aircraft, erect a
final training camp in the city of Ismailia and hoist Africa’s number one –ranked team Senegal in their final pre-AFCON.
Nigeria
dare Burundi, Guinea and Madagascar in that order in Group B of the 32nd Africa
Cup of Nations taking place in four Egyptian cities 21stJune – 19th July.
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