The senior national team of Nigeria begin their preparations for the first of their two World Cup qualifiers which will take place on Friday against Liberia.

After the traditional warm up and drills, coach of the team Gernot Rohr split the players into two teams for a test match which ended in a 3-2 win for the team in yellow bibs.

Kelechi Iheanacho scored twice for his team with Victor Osimhen scoring the third. For the other team Terem Moffi and Samuel Kalu got the goals.

Green – Uzoho, Musa, Simon, Moffi, Ndidi, Balogun, Aina, Ebuehi, Samuel Kalu, Etebo, Ekong.

Yellow- Akpeyi, Osimhen, Kingsley, Ejuke, Shehu, Bonke, Onyekuru, Adekunle, Ozornwafor, Iheanacho, Omeruo

The duo of Jamilu Collins and Alex Iwobi were not part of the senior national team of Nigeria first full training ahead of their 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

They took part in the warm up exercise with the rest of the team but after that weren’t part of the practice match which took place later on during the session.

It’s still unclear why they didn’t take part in the full session but it appears to be fitness related as they trained separately with the physical trainer of the team.

Both players will likely take part in tomorrow’s session as they came through the drills with the fitness coach unscathed. A total of 20 players took part in the full session with two goalkeepers in Francis Uzoho and Daniel Akpeyi.

The third goalkeeper in the squad Maduka Okoye who is also the first choice goalkeeper was conspicuously missing from the session entirely.

The senior national team of Nigeria had their first training on the Teslim Balogun stadium ahead of their upcoming 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Liberia and Cape Verde respectively.

Under the guidance of coach Gernot Rohr, the team got their preparations for Friday game underway with all players in camp bar goalkeeper Maduka Okoye taking part .

First choice goalkeeper Okoye wasn’t among the players in training and as at that time of this report only the duo of Francis Uzoho and Daniel Akpeyi had drills with the goalkeeper coach Alloy Agu.

OwnGoalNigeria.com also gathered that Joe Aribo won’t be available for both games with no specific reason given for his absence. He is among the four players which include Zaidu Sanusi, Chidozie Awaziem and Paul Onuachu who are yet to join the team.

Per reports in the Portuguese and English press, Nigeria international left back Zaidu Sanusi is of interest to English Premier League side West Ham as the deadline for signing of new players ends today.

Zaidu has fallen down the pecking order at Porto after a fine start to life at the club he joined last summer from Santa Clara and immediately owned the left back spot.

An indifferent start to the season hasn’t help the criticism he suffered towards the end of last season and only last week coach of the Nigerian team Gernot Rohr said he will leave Porto before the end of this summer transfer window.

It appears to be the reason why he hasn’t linked up with the Super Eagles squad for their Friday World Cup 2022 qualifiers game against Liberia, which will be followed by another game in four days time against Cape Verde.

Per a release by the media officer of the senior national team of Nigeria Babafemi Raji, six players are yet to join the camp of the Super Eagles for the World Cup 2022 qualifiers.

Nigeria will on Friday take on Liberia at the Teslim Balogun Stadium before traveling to keep a date with Cape Verde in four days time.

The camp of the team came alive yesterday evening with as many as 24 players making themselves available for the start of training for the first game against Liberia.

With Kevin Akpoguma force to miss out on the games after testing positive for coronavirus, the team is expecting four more players to take the number of players in camp to 28.

As at the time of this repot, the quartet of Boavista’s Chidozie Awaziem, FC Porto’s Zaidu Sanusi, Genk’s Paul Onuachu and Joe Aribo of Scottish side Rangers are still expected in the camp.

Players and officials of the senior national team of Nigeria will later today have a proper session at the gym of their hotel following their inability to complete yesterday’s session.

As reported by this portal, the team were asked to leave the gym of the hotel few minutes into yesterday’s session and they had to complete the work out outside at the beach.

Today they will return to the gym at around 10am for a proper session with 24 players expected to take part following the arrival of ten more players to the camp of the team.

Their first full training session will be later in the evening and all 28 invited players will likely take part as the players have a feel with the new balls sent to them by FIFA for the qualifiers.

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Players and officials of the senior national team of Nigeria were not able to use the gym of their camp at the prestigious Eko Hotel, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

The players numbering 15 went to the gym to have their first session but no sooner have they started that the management of the hotel led by the general manager ordered them out.

He claimed the gym is meant for visitors and not exclusively for the team. A situation which snow balled into a heated exchange with players and officials of the Nigerian team.

Attempts by the security detail of the Super Eagles to convince the management to allow the players use the gym yielded no result as they ended up canceling what would have been their first session ahead of Friday’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Liberia.

In order not to loose out on the session entirely, the team later had a light training at the beach with videos posted on their official social media handle.

As many as fourteen players are currently in the camp of the Super Eagles of Nigeria ahead of their World Cup qualifiers games against Liberia and Cape Verde on the 3rd and 7th of September respectively.

The camp for the games opened in Lagos yesterday with five players namely Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Daniel Akpeyi and Adekunle Adeleke the first set of player to arrive camp.

Earlier on we reported that 11 players were in the camp of the team alongside the technical crew led by coach of the team Gernot Rohr as they aim to start the qualifiers on a sound note.

As at the time of filing in this report, they have been joined by four others to swell the number in camp to 15. More players are expected to be in camp before the end of today with the ones in camp set to have their first session which will be in the gym.

Shehu Abdullahi, Ahmed Musa, Samuel Kalu, Daniel Akpeyi, Adekunle Adeleke, Alex Iwobi, Kelechi Iheanacho, Oghenekaro Etebor, Francis Uzoho, Henry Onyekuru, Chidera Ejuke, Kingsley Michael, Wilfred Ndidi, Kenneth Omeruo, Moses Simon.

Fringe Super Eagles forward Cyriel Dessers has agreed a loan move to Spanish second division side Leganes from Belgium side Genk.

Although he started the season as second choice striker behind club’s leading marksman Paul Onuachu. The arrival of Ike Ugbo means Dessers dropped to the option of third choice striker at the club that he joined last summer after scoring 18 goals in the Dutch Eredivisie for Heracles Almelo.

He hasn’t hit same height like he did in the Netherlands with his fellow Nigerian Onuachu the headline maker at the club after scoring 35 goals last season. The inability of the club to trade off the lanky Nigerian played a huge role in the decision to let Dessers leave on loan.

Dessers who has one cap for Nigeria which came last year when he played for 18 minutes in the 1-1 friendly draw against Tunisia will team up with another Nigerian in Kenneth Omeruo at the Spanish side.