AFCON qualifiers: Iwobi, Ekong, Aina, other players arrive Uyo camp


Iwobi, Ekong, Aina, other players arrive Uyo
In form Arsenal star, Alex Iwobi, William Ekong, Ola Aina, Leon Balogun have arrived Uyo training camp ahead of Saturday’s African Nations Cup qualifier against Libya.

Other players who also arrived camp are; Jamilu Collins, Moses Simon, Chidozie Awaziem, Ahmed Musa, Ikechukwu Ezenwa and Shehu Abdullahi.

William Ekong, Semi Ajayi, Daniel Akpeyi and Isaac Success were the first batch of players to join the camp yesterday.



Our training session today(Tuesday, October 9, 2018) holds at the training pitch of the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo from 5pm.
It is an open session. .

It was earlier reported that members of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, were worried that Super Eagles players chose to stay away from the team’s camp, which opened in Uyo on Sunday.

An NFF official told The Guardian that the players agreed to come to camp latest yesterday, “but some of them have given some rehashed reasons for their failure to report as scheduled.

”The officials, who pleaded anonymity, said, “Kelechi Iheanacho said he missed his flight from London to Lagos, while some others said they could not get connecting flights from Lagos to Uyo.

The team is camped at the Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort, Uyo.

Super Eagles will host the first leg at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo on Saturday, 13th October with the reverse fixture billed for the 18,000 –capacity Stade Taïeb Mhiri in the city of Sfax, Tunisia on Tuesday, 16th October.

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