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- Super Eagles guardant Victor Osimhen and respective cardinal players are reportedly acceptable to miss the Unity Cup adjacent month
- The lack of the Napoli striker during Nigeria’s archetypal 4 World Cup qualifiers coincided with a winless tally for the team
- Coach Eric Chelle is expected to look challenges arsenic helium looks to assemble a caller squad, including foreign-based players who person pledged their loyalty to Nigeria
Super Eagles manager Eric Chelle is acceptable to look a important trial up of the Unity Cup, with reports indicating that respective cardinal players volition miss the tournament.
The Malian tactician is expected to beryllium without astir 8 players who featured successful past month’s treble World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Zimbabwe.
Nigeria presently beryllium 4th successful CAF Qualification Group C with 7 points.
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Osimhen, Lookman, others acceptable to miss Unity Cup
Galatasaray guardant Victor Osimhen is apt to miss the upcoming four-nation Unity Cup, scheduled to instrumentality spot successful London from May 27 to 31.
According to ScoreNigeria, the Turkish Super Lig volition inactive beryllium ongoing during the tournament, with Osimhen playing a important relation successful Galatasaray’s rubric race. The league is expected to reason conscionable 3 days aft Nigeria's clash with Ghana successful the highly anticipated Jollof Derby.
Meanwhile, the English Premier League wraps up connected May 25, which could besides regularisation retired Fulham’s Alex Iwobi and Leicester City’s Wilfred Ndidi for the archetypal lucifer of the Unity Cup.
This is owed to a FIFA regulation requiring a minimum three-day remainder play for players aft their last nine match.
In Serie A, reigning CAF Player of the Year Ademola Lookman (Atalanta) and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru (Lazio) are acceptable to miss the clash against West African rivals Ghana, arsenic the league concludes connected May 25.
A akin destiny awaits Raphael Onyedika (Club Brugge) and Tolu Arokodare (Genk), whose Belgian Pro League commitments widen beyond the commencement of the Unity Cup.
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Teams Nigeria volition look astatine the Unity Cup
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed the Super Eagles' information successful the 2025 Unity Cup successful London.
According to an official statement, Nigeria volition look Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica successful the tourney scheduled to instrumentality spot from May 27 to 31 astatine the Gtech Community Stadium successful Brentford.
The Caribbean nations volition footwear disconnected the contention with the first-ever Trini-Jam derby connected UK ungraded successful the opening semi-final connected May 27. The highly anticipated clash betwixt African rivals Nigeria and Ghana volition travel connected May 28.
The tourney volition reason connected May 31, with a third-place playoff preceding the last match. Nigeria antecedently won the Unity Cup erstwhile it was past hosted successful 2004 per BBC.
Chelle says nary to imposition of players
Legit.ng earlier reported that Super Eagles manager Eric Chelle has firmly stated that helium volition not tolerate immoderate interference from officials wrong the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) erstwhile it comes to subordinate selection.
The Malian tactician remains steadfast successful his stance and is unwilling to compromise connected his principles.
Chelle besides made past arsenic the archetypal non-Nigerian African to negociate the nationalist team.
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