Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has picked Ahmed Musa as Captain, William Ekong as deputy captain, and NPFL stars John Noble and Anayo Iwuala among the 24 Super Eagles players who go head to head with fellow West African rivals Cameroon in a friendly in Austria on Friday next week.
Goalkeepers Maduka Okoye and Francis Uzoho, defenders Ola Aina and Chidozie Awaziem, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Abdullahi Shehu, and forwards Victor Osimhen, Kelechi Iheanacho, Moses Simon, and Simy Nwankwo, also made it to the list.
Also part of the squad are Turkey-based former U20 defender Valentine Ozornwafor, Denmark –based midfielder Frank Onyeka and Lorient FC of France’s Terem Moffi .
Nigeria, has won the Africa Cup of Nations three times but was bumped by Cameroon in the final of the competition on three other occasions, defeated the Indomitable Lions 3-0 in a friendly in Belgium in October 2015, and have not lost to the Lions in regulation time since a 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Yaounde on 27th August 1989.
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