On Tuesday, the Huge Eagles quietly returned to Nigeria from the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of International locations (AFCON) in Cameroon with out fanfare.
The avid gamers and officers returned via a chartered flight from Garoua, where they played four suits.
They arrived at 1: 10 a.m. on the Nnamdi Azikiwe Global Airport in Abuja, received by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) officers.
The NFF officers had been led by their Frequent Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi, accompanied by the federation’s government committee contributors Yusuf Ahmed and Shehu Dikko.
A dapper chunk of the avid gamers and officers got right here down from the aircraft, alongside a dapper amount comprising contributors of the supporters’ club and media personnel.
The aircraft later headed to Lagos, where it dropped off the few remaining avid gamers and officers whereas the relaxation headed to the Transcorp Hilton.
Sanusi welcomed the avid gamers and praised them for their efforts in Cameroon, announcing it used to be now time to glance ahead to the duty of qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
”You would possibly well possibly presumably presumably have gotten tried your finest. It used to be fair uncomfortable that you did now not be triumphant in the final. Nonetheless, fair now, what is left is the unfinished commerce of qualification for Qatar 2022,” he acknowledged. “We might well possibly presumably smooth attach in the assist of us 2021 AFCON and open making inspiring for the final qualifiers.”
The group of workers captain Ahmed Musa outlined that the group of workers had attach in the assist of them the disappointment of failing to be triumphant in its aim on the 2021 AFCON.
”We’re now expecting the World Cup qualifiers against Ghana’s Gloomy Stars in March. Nonetheless fair now, it is assist to club commerce for us,” he acknowledged.
The Huge Eagles, after three wins in the competition’s first spherical, which earned the stamp of favourites, might well possibly presumably now not straggle beyond the second spherical.
They lost 0-1 to Tunisia in a match that noticed them diminished to 10 males fair after the hour stamp.
The avid gamers are expected to attain to their respective golf equipment in a foreign nation in the next one or two days.
(NAN)