Abia Warriors begin preparation for CAF Confederation Cup

‘Fresh 40,000-seat stadium would perchance be most spirited in Nigeria’
Avid gamers of Abia Warriors maintain started returning to the personnel’s camp to launch preparations for the personnel’s maiden foray into African inter-club competitors.

Abia Warriors executed the 2024/25 Nigerian Premier Football (NPFL) season in third space, a field magnificent adequate for the CAF Confederation Cup, which is the Umuahia-primarily primarily based personnel’s first participation in a continental championship. To make certain that the personnel is ready when the competitors kicks off later this year, avid gamers and officers of the club will launch the first piece of their preparation for the competitors this week.

Abia Warriors Media Officer, Solomon Igwe, suggested The Guardian that the club’s management is doing all the pieces imaginable to make certain they're in a position to raise the championship for the first time for Nigeria, alongside with that the coaches are expected to launch assessing the playing workers to decide the areas to present a engage to.

“The CAF Confederation Cup is extremely subtle competitors and we're in search of to be ready for it,” Igwe mentioned.

“When the personnel settles down, the coaches will decide the avid gamers to prefer and unique ones to add to the squad.

“One thing is definite, our chairman, John Obuh, is aware of what it takes to play in each and every person amongst these competitions and he, alongside the coaches, has started planning the strategy that would perchance well score us a hit.”

Igwe acknowledged that the Umuahia Township Stadium will no longer pass CAF’s take a look at for the CAF Confederation Cup, alongside with, on the opposite hand, that with out reference to occurs, the management of the club would purchase a venue magnificent to the club’s needs.

He additionally printed that the Abia Sing executive is bent on giving Nigeria one amongst the appropriate stadiums in Sub-Sahara Africa, alongside with that the command’s unique stadium below constructing would resolve the full complications the command has been encountering in selecting an ideal venue for its teams.

“The unique Abia Sing stadium located at Isieke, Umuahia, is a 40, 000-seat capability edifice, which is in a position to web web hosting the full multi-sport events on the an identical time.

“We demand the stadium to be performed on time to set up Nigeria the disgrace of being described as a one-stadium nation. When it is miles performed, Abia Warriors will maintain an arena to host our events, alongside with fits and indoor and outdoors coaching lessons.”