The Super Eagles of Nigeria will play their second home game but third AFCON 2017 qualifiers against Egypt in Kaduna despite some reservations observed by football enthusiast after the Chad game.
A statement on the Website of the Nigeria Football Federation confirm the Ahmadu Bello Stadium which played host to Nigeria's first AFCON 2017 game against Chad will also be the Eagles home when joint group leaders Egypt come to town in 40 weeks time.
NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, explained on Wednesday that the Federation will henceforth decide international match venues well in advance in order to afford host cities enough time to work on the facilities to be used for such matches.
In line with the new policy, the NFF has also announced that the first leg of the 2016 Olympics qualifying match between the Super Falcons and the Senior Women National Team of Equatorial Guinea coming up on Saturday, July 18 will be played in Port Harcourt.
Also, the African U-23 Championship final round, first leg match between the Nigeria U-23 team and the Congo U-23 side will be played in Port Harcourt, a day after the Falcons/Equatorial Guinea clash.
The winner of the fixture qualifies for the African U-23 Championship coming up in Senegal in December, where the best three of the eight participating teams will be eligible to represent Africa at the Men’s Football Tournament of next year’s Olympics. The fourth –placed team in Senegal will play-off against a team from Asia.
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