Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle has been given the nod by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pick 28 players in his squad for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Chelle made a case to have an enlarged squad for the tournament as part of the process of rebuilding the team, and it was granted by the technical committee of the NFF in a meeting yesterday in Abuja.
It means the coach will work with a squad of players he intends to build his team around in the future, with the NFF now settling for him as the one to begin the next phase of the team’s development after back to back failure to qualify for the World Cup.
In the list a couple of young players were handed a first time call up, and Chelle believe they will benefit from being a part of the team at the tournament which will be useful to the team in the future.
They will resume camping for the tournament on the 8th of December in Egypt.
