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The Flying Eagles have finally arrived in New Zealand ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup finals after a trip across three continents spanning more than 25 hours.

The African champions started out at the Frankfurt Airport on Sunday night for a six-and-a-half-hour flight on Emirates to Dubai.

After a three-hour stopover, they then headed to Melbourne, Australia. The flight lasted over 12 hours.

They stopped over in Melbourne for about two hours before they flew out for Auckland, New Zealand. They were airborne for about three hours.

And in Auckland they took another flight, this time on Air New Zealand, to New Plymouth. The flight was for 40 minutes.

The weather in New Plymouth is chilly as this is the beginning of winter in New Zealand.

Manchester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho, who arrived at New Zealand on Monday from his base in England, was on the flight to New Plymouth with the rest of the team.

The Flying Eagles are due to have their first training in New Zealand 1pm local time on Wednesday, which will be 12 midnight Tuesday in Nigeria. New Zealand is 11 hours ahead of Nigeria.