TheCable

Nigeria’s home-based senior team, Super Eagles B, will fly out to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, on Friday night ahead of Sunday’s 2016 African Nations Championship final qualifying match against the Etalons of Burkina Faso.

A chartered ARIK Air aircraft will fly out of the Port Harcourt international airport at 5.30pm Nigeria time, and will land in the Burkinabe capital after about two-and-half hours.

The delegation comprises 22 players, 13 technical and backroom staff, a number of stakeholders, some NFF staff, a couple of media representatives and members of the Nigeria football supporters club.

The Super Eagles will have the official training at the August 4 Stadium in Ouagadougou on Saturday evening, with the match to start at 4.00pm (5 pm Nigeria time) on Sunday at the same venue.

The Eagles will be without coach Sunday Oliseh, who became dizzy and weak after lunch on Thursday and flew to Belgium on the advice of Super Eagles’ medics.

CAF have appointed Mohamed Ragab Omara from Libya as the referee for the match, with his compatriots Foaad Mohamed El Maghrabi, Baesus Safe-El Naser and Abdallah Baesus Ashraf as assistant 1, assistant 2 and reserve referee respectively.

The match commissioner is renowned former FIFA referee Idrissa Sarr from Mauritania.