Flying ’Eagles Get Moroccan Friendly

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Nigeria U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, will play Morocco U-20 team in a two-legged friendly in Casablanca on April 9 and 11.

The team will depart the country for Morocco on Sunday, April 6, with a 20-man squad.

The team has already regrouped in Abuja preparatory to a 2015 African Youth Championship qualifier in May. followed a short break given the players after a month-long rigorous screening exercise in Abuja.

Coach Manu Garba has invited 35 players, who have been booked into Serob Legacy Hotel in Area 1 Abuja.

The seven invitees who are based overseas are also expected to join up with the rest of the squad this week.

Team secretary Aliyu Auwal Ibrahim said letters to their various foreign clubs have been sent out to that effect.

Nigeria is billed to face the winners of the qualifying match between Kenya and Tanzania next month in continuation of the qualifying tournament to be hosted by Senegal in March 2015.

The Flying Eagles has won the competition a record six times.