CAF Gives Conditions To Lift Ban On Super Eagles Home Ground, Teslim Balogun Stadium

CAF Gives Conditions To Lift Ban On Super Eagles Home Ground, Teslim Balogun Stadium By Our Reporter The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has pointed out the areas Nigeria needs to improve on before the ban on Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos could be lifted and used as home ground for the Super Eagles World Cup Playoffs in March, BSNsports.com.ng can report. CAF stated categorically that unless these conditions are met in February the Super Eagles will now be forced to play their 2022 World Cup playoff home leg away from the Teslim Balogun Stadium. In a most damning report, CAF pointed out the need to replace the pitch at the stadium as well as several major structural improvements, from a media centre to better floodlights. In a memo dated October 17, 2021, and addressed to the NFF General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi, CAF development director, Raul Chipenda comprehensively pointed out the many lapses at the Teslim Balogun Stadium. If these changes were not carried out in time for the playoffs in March, the Eagles will have to play outside the Teslim Balogun Stadium to conclude their qualifying campaign for next year’s World Cup in Qatar. The most likely alternative home venues for the Eagles would now be the refurbished Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja, which was handed back to the sports ministry last week 7, and the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, which hosted the team on the road to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.