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 goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama hopes the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations is cancelled to help stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
Amodu replaced Stephen Keshi last week, after he paid the price for Nigeria's poor qualifying campaign so far.
Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama expressed his surprise that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) decided to replace coach Stephen Keshi barely a month before the side's final two African Nations Cup qualifiers.
Cameroon on verge of qualification - Cameroon took a huge step towards qualification with a 2:0 victory over Sierra Leone on Wednesday.
Algeria beat Malawi 2:0 in their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday to be on the verge of booking their place at the final in Morocco.
The never-ending story - Talks between Keshi and the NFF over a new contract have been on and off since July.
Victor Moses recalled to Nigeria squad for African Cup Qualifying ties.
Did you know? Onazi's salary before this new deal was per year less than a week's wages for other african players in Europe.
Cape Verde have leapt into the top 10 of African teams in Fifa's world rankings for September.
Nigeria will face a last-minute rush to appoint a coach before the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sudan next month because of the crisis at the country's football federation.
