The list of players called up to the Super Eagles squad by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will be trimmed by the incoming head coach of the team Janne Andersson, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Andersson is expected to be unveiled later in the week as the replacement for Finidi George, who left his role after the poor performance of the team in the world cup qualifiers games against South Africa and Benin Republic respectively.
His first task will be the upcoming AFCON qualifiers game against Benin Republic in Uyo and Rwanda respectively in September. Anything short of a good start will as expected lead to questions about his choice.
Ahead of the game, the NFF sent out provisional invitation to 35 players, with the new coach expected to trim it to a manageable size of 25 for both games when his appointment is made official.
Already the list has been forwarded to him, with a source in the NFF saying some questionable names will be taken out by the coach. He said already questions have been asked about how certain players were invited for the game.
The list wasn’t prepared entirely by the technical department of the NFF, as a bigwig in the football house ensured some players of interest to certain agents got invitations even though they have not been in the best of form lately.
