Home- Based Eagles To Kick Start Preparations For Cameroun Double Header

Coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr will begin his preparation for Nigeria’s Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon with home-based players.

This was confirmed by Super Eagles’ Media Officer, Toyin Ibitoye who said that Rohr would start preparations for the matches with the 44 players named last week by his assistant, Salisu Yusuf for the African Nations Championship (CHAN).

Nigeria face Cameroon in the first game of the double-header in Uyo on August 28th and travel to Yaoundé for the reverse tie 3 days later.

The Super Eagles lead their world cup qualifying group on 6 points from 2 games, with Cameroon second on 2 points.