Full house as Super Eagles held its first training session

Tseyi Agharaye

The Super Eagles of Nigeria held its first training session ahead of 2019 AFCON qualifying match against Seychelles on Tuesday 19th March, 2019. Nigeria play Host to Seychelles this Friday at the Stephen Keshi Stadium Asaba.

Nigeria won the first leg of this fixture with a three Nil victory, with first half goals from Ahmed Musa and Chidozie Awaziem giving Nigeria the lead at half time. Odion Ighalo scored the only second half goal to give Nigeria the victory they were in need of.

Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr has a full house as all players called up for this round of qualifiers are already in camp as at Tuesday when the first training session took place.

Alex Iwobi, Odion Ighalo, Semi Ajayi, Valentine Ozornwafor, Daniel Akpeyi, Ikechukwu Ezenwa and Ikouwen Udoh were among the first to arrive at the training camp.

However, the numbers increased on Tuesday with vice-captain Ahmed Musa, Leon Balogun, Kenneth Omeruo, William Troost-Ekong amongst others joining their colleagues in camp.

The players had their first training session ahead of the game at 4.45 pm local time on Tuesday at the Stephen Keshi Stadium.

Wednesday training session will also be held in Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba as revealed on the official twitter page of the Nigeria Football Federation.

The tweet reads, Our training session today (Wednesday) starts at 4.30pm. Venue: Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba. It will be open for filming and the fans for the first 20 minutes only. #AFCON2019Q #SoarSuperEagles #Team9jaStrong.

Gernot Rohr’s team which is already through to 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will also take on the Pharaohs of Egypt in a friendly also in Asaba next week Tuesday.