U-17 World Cup: Nigeria cancels Qatar training

The Nigeria U-17 team has cancelled a proposed training camp in Qatar due to logistic reasons, officials have said.

MTNFootball.com gathered that the Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar, where the Golden Eaglets would have trained is fully booked.

The team will now fly directly to the United Arab Emirates to train for at least two weeks before the FIFA U-17 World Cup kicks off on October 17.

“The Golden Eaglets’ players are still in the country training in the final phase of local preparation. They could not go to Qatar due to logistics reasons,” said the General Secretary of the Nigeria football Federation (NFF), Musa Amadu.

“But the Federation is making frantic effort to see that the team train for at least two weeks in UAE to help the team acclimatise ahead of the World Cup.

“We will decide later this week where in the UAE the team would camp, but the boys would have at least two weeks of closed and concentrated training in the UAE,” he added.

Nigeria will play in Group F alongside defending champions Mexico, Sweden and Iraq.