The African champions have departed the country for a
25-day training tour in the European nation ahead of the Fifa U20 World
Cup in New Zealand
Nigeria U20 team departed the country on Saturday, May 2 for a
three-weeks long training tour in Germany to intensify their
preparations for the 2015 Fifa U20 World Cup that begins on May 30.Goal earlier reported that the Manu Garba's side were initially billed to make the trip to the European nation last Wednesday, but had it rescheduled owing to travel hitches.
General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation, who earlier cited some reasons of travel hitches for their botched trip, said the travel issues have been sorted and the Flying Eagles can make the trip of Germany.
According to Sanusi, a delegation of 25 players and 10 officials will travel via Lufthansa Airline from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Saturday evening alongside
on-ground foreign-based players - Tottenham’s Musa Yahaya, Porto’s Chidera Ezeh and Manchester City’s Chidiebere Nwakali.
Sanusi said the African U20 champions will spend 25 days in Germany where they will play friendly matches before connecting to New Zealand for the World age-grade Championship which is scheduled to hold from May 30 to June 20.
“We had issues with their visas but now we have sorted everything out. All those travelling have their visas. The NFF will give the team maximum support to excel in the competition," Sanusi said.
“Fifa have finally been able to secure seats on Lufthansa for the players and officials and they will all travel on Saturday. They will play friendly matches out there and we also believe there will be better concentration for them to focus on the challenges ahead,” he concluded.
The Flying Eagles are drawn in the same group with Brazil, North Korea and Hungary in the preliminaries of the World Cup in New Zealand.
Nigeria’s first game will be against Brazil at the Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth on June 1, 2015.
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