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The
Super Eagles failed to train on Monday evening as scheduled — at the
Teslim Balogun Stadium no thanks to the failure of invited players to
show up early.

The team had been
billed to commence training at the stadium — venue for Wednesday’s
friendly against Sierra Leone – by 5.00pm local time.

But almost an hour
after the scheduled commencement time, news filtered in from the team’s
Eko Hotel camp that the session had been cancelled.

The head of media
at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ademola Olajire later told
reporters at the training venue that the session had to be called
because most players invited arrived late.

Nine in camp

According to
Olajire, only nine players had turned up at the team’s camp and as such
the technical crew, led by former international Samson Siasia, shelved
the training session.

The players in camp
include team captain Joseph Yobo, who’s on a season-long loan at
Turkish club side Fenerbahce, Taye Taiwo of French side Olympique
Marseille, and West Brom of England’s Osaze Odemwingie, who has so far
scored nine goals for the struggling Premier League side.

Others are
Heartland’s Chibuzor Okonkwo and Julius Ubido, Wasiiu Sowemimo of Kano
Pillars, Ekigho Ehiosun of Warri Wolves, Peter Utaka of Denmark’s OB
Odense as well as Ahmed Musa of Dutch side VVV Venlo.

Olajire further
revealed that the rest of the invited players were expected to arrive
last night while the team will train this morning at the match venue.

The Sierra Leoneans
will get to use the venue later in the evening to get a feel of the
artificial playing surface ahead of Wednesday’s game which is billed to
kickoff at 7.00pm local time.

Meanwhile, fans have been advised to purchase tickets for the game
at stipulated locations across Lagos as tickets will not be sold at the
venue on match day.