Super Eagles head to coach Gernot Rohr has said he hopes super team play at least engage in three friendly games before next year’s AFCON in 2019.
Nigeria have qualified for the African prestigious football event with a game to spare and so their final qualifier at home against Seychelles will be like pass over feast for the Eagles .
Besides the match against Seychelles in March, we hope to play three more friendlies including one in March and some probably at the end of May (during the team’s training camp for the AFCON Rohr said.
The Franco German has so far picked Uyo as the training base for the AFCON, saying the good pitch at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium was the main attraction.
It could be recalled that the Super Eagles have won the AFCON thrice, but they are only back in the tournament after four years which they failed to qualify for the last two editions in 2015 and 2017.
