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Thursday, 8 March 2018

Meet the three new Super Eagles invitee

Meet the three new Super Eagles invitee

Meet the three new Super Eagles invitee of Junior Ajayi, Stephen Eze and Gabriel Okechukwu called up by Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr for the first-time since the Franco-German took the affair of the national team.

The trio is part of his 28-man squad to face Poland and Serbia in pre-FIFA World Cup friendly matches this month at the 43 000-seater Stadium Wroclaw on 23 March, before heading off to London for the clash with Serbia four days later.

The 22-year-old Ajayi who plies his trade in Egypt with Al Ahly and he has consisted been in good form since switching to the land the Pharaohs from Tunisia outfit CS Sfaxien scoring eight goals and assisting nine in 23 games, as they close in a 40th league title.

However, African Nations Championship star Okechukwu is the revelation of Home base Eagles in Morroco the Akwa United forward who has netted twice at  CHAN including the extra winner against Angola.

While the 23-year-old defender Eze who already joins the Bulgarian club Lokomotiv Plovdiv, played every minute as Nigeria reached the championship game at the CHAN including man of the match performance against Rwanda which was impressed with the former Kano Pillars star performance at the tournament.

Joel Obi return back to Super Eagles after four years the Torino midfielder has been handed a chance to break into Nigeria's 2018 World Cup party with a recall by the German coach with the talented Torino midfielder, whose career has suffered from a succession of injuries.

These are the first two of six friendly encounters planned for the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation ahead of the World Cup finals in Russia this summer.

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