Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has recalled 2019 AFCON top scorer, Odion Ighalo from international retirement as he listed him along side team captain Ahmed Musa, deputy captain William Ekong, defenders Kenneth Omeruo and Leon Balogun, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Alex Iwobi, forwards Moses Simon and Victor Osimhen, as well as 15 others for Nigeria’s closing Group C games of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 African race against Liberia and Cape Verde this month.
Others are goalkeepers Francis Uzoho, Daniel Akpeyi, and Maduka Okoye. There are also defenders Chidozie Awaziem, Olaoluwa Aina, Jamilu Collins, Abdullahi Shehu, Zaidu Sanusi and Kevin Akpoguma.
Frank Onyeka, Joseph Ayodele and Kelechi Iheanacho are the other midfielders while returnee Samuel Chukwueze, Paul Onuachu and Chidera Ejuke complete the list of invited strikers.
The Super Eagles will tackle the Lone Star of Liberia at the Grand Stade Tangier in Morocco on Saturday, November 13 and then fly into Lagos for the final group game against Cape Verde’s Blue Sharks at the Teslim Balogun Stadium on Tuesday, November 16.
Top of their pool with nine points but hotly chased by seven-pointer Cape Verde who host Central African Republic on the island of Mindelo, the Eagles need the three points against the Lone Star on the neutral turf of Morocco’s principal northern city to remain on firm ground when hosting the Blue Sharks three days later in Nigeria’s commercial and industrial capital.
The NFF has directed the invited players and overseas-based members of the technical crew to report directly to the city of Tangier on Monday, November 8 just as technical officials from Nigeria are to report in Tangier the same day.
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