Eagles reject offer to play Burkina Faso in Morocco
The Super Eagles players have rejected moved by the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) to move the teams? friendly match against Burkina Faso
to Morocco, following the inability of the members of the Burkina Faso
team to obtain entry visa to London, where the international friendly
was initially billed to take place.
The NFF were forced to announce the cancellation of the match, when it
became obvious that the Burkinabes faced visa hitches as there was no
British embassy in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso.
The AUTHORITY gathered that the Burkina faso FA had requested that the
Super Eagles be moved to Morocco where they Etalions were already
playing a friendly with the Atlas Lions to ensure that the game went on,
but the proposal, which was agreed to by the NFF was turned down by the
Eagles players on personal grounds.
Morocco brushed aside Burkina Faso 2-0 in an international friendly
match at the Stade de Marrakech in Marrakech on Friday night.
NFF sources told The AUTHORITY that after series of discussions with the
Burkina Faso football authority, the NFF in their desire to ensure that
the game went on as planned agreed to move the team to Morocco, but
they met a strong resistance from the majority of the Super Eagles
players who raised some personal issues against the request.
?The NFF was still eager to ensure that the match held because of their
desire to ensure adequate preparations for the Super Eagles ahead of the
2018 world cup qualifiers against Cameroon. After series of
discussions, it was agreed that they will play the match at a different
venue outside London, It was agreed that Nigeria should move its team to
Morocco for the match, but some key members of the Super Eagles team
rejected the offer to travel to Morocco?, disclosed our source.
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