Wednesday 22 June 2016

Rio Olympics: Nigeria To Play Mexico

Nigeria has confirmed there will be a friendly between their Olympic team and that of Mexico on Saturday, July 2. NFF’s FIFA Match Agent Jairo Pachon of Eurodata Sport stated on Tuesday that the match will be played at the Aguascalientes Stadium, home ground of newly promoted top-tier club Necaxa FC.

The match is scheduled to start at 8.30pm Mexican time.

The NFF announced that after the friendly, the Nigeria U23s will continue their training camp in the United States of America and will play Charleston Battery FC in Atlanta on Saturday, 16th July.

A game against the Honduras U23 team is also being consummated for 27th July.

Nigeria will play Sweden, Colombia and Japan in the group stage of the men’s football tournament of this year’s Olympic Games in Brazil from August.

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