Nigeria
Nigeria
WORLD CUP 2014
The National Football Team of Nigeria won the African Cup of Nations 2013!
The three-time African champions will face Scotland in a friendly on 28 May at Craven Cottage, before they depart for their training camp in Houston, Texas. They will also play friendly internationals against Greece and the United States in June as part of their warm-up for this year's World Cup.
The West Africans will play Greece in Philadelphia on 3 June then face USA in Jacksonville, Florida on 7 June. The deadline to name the final 23-man squad is 2 June. Nigeria will face Argentina, Iran and Bosnia in Group F of this summer's tournament in Brazil.
Nigeria is one of the five african teams who will participate at the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
Nigeria news
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