Rohr Reveals Exactly When He Expects Iwobi, Musa, Ighalo, Shehu In Super Eagles Camp
Published: June 05, 2019Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr expects to have a full house by Wednesday as the national team step up their preparations for a pre-Africa Cup of Nations friendly with Zimbabwe.
Arsenal's Alex Iwobi, Al-Nassr's Ahmed Musa, Shanghai Greenland Shenhua's Odion Ighalo and Bursaspor's Abdullahi Shehu were missing from Tuesday's training sessions held at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba.
While Iwobi's season ended last Wednesday after featuring for the Gunners in the Europa League final, Musa and Shehu are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr festival.
''We have 25 players here, everybody would be here tomorrow, still four players are missing - Musa and Shehu because of the important day for them, also Ighalo coming from China and Alex Iwobi also coming tomorrow because he had one week rest like everybody,'' Rohr told reporters in Asaba on Tuesday.
''We have six standby players, two played in the U20 World Cup and the other ones are ready if there's injury but I don't want to have any injuries, that's why we are preparing this team very well.''
The Super Eagles will be training once today, starting from 1615 hours and it will be an open session to the fans and media.
Ifeanyi Emmanuel
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