Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho says the preparation of the senior national team of Nigeria for their world cup qualifiers games against South Africa and Benin Republic has been affected by the late arrival of key players of the team, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Iheanacho who is a one of the senior players of the team was among the first to hit the camp of the team in Uyo ahead of the first of their two games in the series, which is Friday’s game against South Africa.
He said preparation for the game has been hampered by the late arrival of key players like Ademola Lookman, Alex Iwobi, Calvin Bassey, Semi Ajayi and a host of others due to varying reasons. Part of which is the industrial action by organized labour in Nigeria which grounded both domestic and international flights.
” Some of the big session that we needed we couldn’t because we are not complete. It affects the training a little bit but we got almost everybody today and we did a big session which is very important”, he told TVC
” Hopefully everyone will be around tomorrow for us to get the full length of the pitch and training that we need. Overall, we’ve been working very hard and training for a few days now so I think the coaches are doing a great job, we are really fit and ready to go”, he stated.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
