Ten players have arrived the Super Eagles Bolton White Apartment camp in Abuja ahead of this weekend's AFCON qualifiers against Sudan Nigeria national team camp is beginning to bubble ahead of preparations for this weekend’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Sudanese senior national team. According to a report from the Eagles camp, ten players have arrived for the make or break fixture in Khartoum. The foreign based professional in camp are Hull City’s Omatsone Aluko, new boy Hope Akpan of Reading FC , Babatunde Michael, Aaron Samuel and Nosa Igiebor. Top the list of the home based players are Gbolahan Salami of Warri Wolves, Azubuike Egwuekwe, Emem Edward , Chigozie Agbim and leading Nigerian league scorer, Ighodalo Osagunna. More players are expected to team up with Stephen Keshi’s men before Monday night.
The former Nigeria player has said that no indigenous coach is good enough to manage the country’s senior national team In the wake of Nigeria’s poor outing in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers and speculations whether coach Stephen Keshi’s contract as Eagles manager will be renewed or not, former international goalkeeper Emmanuel Babayaro has said the former Mali and Togo gaffer is not the right man to lead country’s senior football national team. Keshi had resigned from his role after Nigeria’s loss to France in the second round but later denied saying he only ‘bid’ his players farewell because he wasn’t sure if his contract would be renewed According to Babayaro, he is not assured that the ‘big boss’ is the best person to manage the Super Eagles. "I don’t think Keshi is the man for the job. I neve thought any Nigerian coach is the right person fo the Eagles,” africanfootball.com. "It...
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