NFF, Super Eagles meet in Lagos to strategise for crucial qualifiers

Gamers and officials of the Tidy Eagles will meet with the management of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) this weekend to devise the reliable execution of the nation’s final 2026 World Cup qualifiers in September.

An authentic of the federation advised The Guardian the previous day that the deliberate assembly shall be held in Lagos for the interval of or forward of Skipper William Troost-Ekong’s significant person charity game billed to be held at the Mobolaji Johnson Enviornment, Onikan, on Saturday.

With the theme “Play for Reason,” the Troost-Ekong Foundation (TEF) tell will bring collectively a pair of of Africa’s greatest names in sports and leisure to bear awareness and generate funds for TEF’s ongoing formative years constructing programmes in training, healthcare, and grassroots sports.

Nonetheless the NFF authentic, who pleaded anonymity, talked about the tournament would enable the federation to focus on the final World Cup qualifiers, which the Tidy Eagles must bear to qualify for the championship after missing the final edition in Qatar.

“We met with the gamers for the interval of the friendlies in England and Russia, but with plenty of the gamers coming to Lagos for the Ekong game, the NFF felt it may per chance per chance actually most likely maybe per chance be the loyal time to make certain that every person is on one web page for the challenges forward.

“We question the head officials of the federation, including the president, who went to the US forward of the continuing FIFA Membership World Cup, to dangle returned forward of Saturday,” he talked about.

Nigeria is positioned fourth in Team C of the 2026 World Cup African qualifying series on seven points, with South Africa leading the crew on 13 points.

Rwanda is second in the crew on eight points, tied with third-positioned Benin, while Lesotho (six) and Zimbabwe (four) develop up the leisure of the log.

Nonetheless, the image may per chance per chance per chance commerce tremendously if FIFA geese three points and three targets from South Africa, who fielded an ineligible player, Teboho Mokoena, of their 2-0 bear over Lesotho in surely one of the suits of the series.

If that occurs, it methodology the Tidy Eagles dangle all the pieces to play as they would presumably simply overtake the Bafana Bafana with wins of their final two video games of the series.

Nigeria will host Rwanda and play away to South Africa in September forward of the final device of video games against Lesotho (away) and Benin Republic at house.