AFCON U23: Foreign based players to join camp on Monday

AFCON U23: Foreign based players to join camp on Monday.

By Sampson Adedeji

Ahead of the 2019 U23 African Cup of Nations, invited foreign based players are expected to join the camp of the Dream Team VII as they intensify preparations for the competition.

BSN reports that the team resumed camping on Monday in Abuja with home based players and started training immediately under the tutelage of their technical crew headed by Coach Imama Amapakabo.

The defending champions of the U-23 AFCON, eased past Sudan 5-1 on aggregate to book a place in the 3rd U-23 AFCON in Cairo, Egypt from where Africa’s three representatives at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will emerge.

Amapakabo confirmed that the home based players and their foreign counterparts will train together for a week before jetting out to Egypt.

Nigeria’s Olympic Eagles are in Group B alongside Cote d’Ivoire, South Africa and Zambia and all the matches will be played at Al Salam Stadium, Cairo.

The tournament will start on November 8th and the final is slated for 22nd of the same month.