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The 30 players in the Super Eagles B camp ahead of the 2024 CHAN qualifiers double header against Ghana are expected to be reduced anytime soon as the team intensifies preparations for the crucial matches, The PUNCH reports.
Co-handler of the team and Rangers International coach Fidelis Ilechukwu confirmed this to our correspondent on Tuesday.
The Nigeria Football Federation has announced a list of 30 stars in the Nigeria Premier Football League for the assignment.
“We have 29 players in camp already apart from Ossy Martins who sustained an injury in an accident on his way to the camp,” Ilechukwu told our correspondent.
When asked about the possibility of replacing the injured Martins, the coach revealed that it is subject to the pruning exercise which will be done after a series of test games.
“We are looking at what we are going to do. We want to reduce the players and if we are okay with the attacking players, we may not replace or wait for him to be fit. By the weekend, we will know what to do.”
The team played one friendly game against Grassrunners FC on Sunday, which they won 1-0.
“We have played one, we have one on Wednesday (today) and we will play more this week,” Ilechukwu added.
The eighth edition of the continental championship – reserved exclusively for footballers plying their trade with clubs in their country’s domestic leagues and possessing standard contracts – is scheduled to run the length of February 2025 in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Nigeria has never won the tournament, having finished third at the 2014 edition in South Africa before losing the final against hosts Morocco four years later.
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