Football
The Super Eagles will on
Thursday, 1st June 2017 take the pitch against the Hawks of Togo in an
international friendly in Paris.
Coach Gernot Rohr is using
Thursday’s game, just like last Friday’s session against Corsica Island in
Ajaccio, as preparation for next weekend’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier
against South Africa in Uyo.
The match against the
Hawks will be played at the Stade Municipal de Saint Leu La Foret, Paris
starting from 7pm (6pm Nigeria time).
Forward Kelechi Iheanacho,
who scored from the spot to level scores (1-1) against Corsica on Friday, is
one of 20 players in the Eagles’ Hyatt Regency Hotel camp in Paris, and who
have been training in the French capital ahead of Thursday’s game.
Goalkeepers Ikechukwu
Ezenwa and Dele Alampasu, defenders Elderson Echiejile, William Ekong, Chidozie
Awaziem, Tyronne Ebuehi and Abdullahi Shehu, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi, Mikel
Agu, Oghenekaro Etebo, Alhassan Ibrahim and Uche Agbo, and strikers Ahmed Musa,
Stephen Odey, Victor Osimhen, Henry Onyekuru, Alex Iwobi, Olanrewaju Kayode and
Sikiru Olatubosun are the others.
Thursday’s match will be
the 17th clash between both West African countries at senior level, with
Nigeria having won nine of the previous 16 clashes. Togo won in three, while
four matches were drawn.
The first match between
both countries at senior level took place on 6th October 1956. Albert
Onyeanwuna (of blessed memory) scored the game’s only goal, with Nigeria’s
roster also including the likes of Dan Anyiam, Sam Ibiam, Asuquo Ekpe and Cyril
Asoluka. Paul ‘Wonder Boy’ Hamilton (also of blessed memory) scored the one
goal in each of two friendlies in Lagos in 1966.
Nigeria’s biggest win over
Togo remains the 3-0 scoreline in a 1992 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match
in Lagos in August 1990, but Nigerians will never forget the 5-2 hiding by the
Hawks in a WAFU Cup match in Abidjan in December 1983.
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