Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has contacted two players to get set to join the senior national team of Nigeria at their training camp in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
The coach picked 27 players for the tournament and the list was made public by the Nigeria Football Federation, but that list will now be tampered with according to what we exclusively gathered.
Peseiro has lined up the duo of Nice forward Terem Moffi and Antwerp of Belgium midfielder Alhassan Yusuf as a possible replacement for the duo of Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi, who are both suffering from knocks.
Already head coach of Leicester City Enzo Maresca has already cast doubt over their participation in the tournament, which will begin on the 14th of January with Nigeria Equatorial Guinea in their first group game on the 15th.
In quotes relayed by LeicestershireLive, the Foxes manager said: “Kele and Wilf are both injured, but they are now going to be with the international team.
“We’ll see if they’re going to keep them or send them back. But they are both injured unfortunately for us. ”
If the duo fail to shake off the injury before the team’s departure for the AFCON from their base in Dubai, the coach has the aforementioned duo as the replacement for them per what we exclusively gathered.
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