Tickets go on sale next week
ENGLISH Premiership club, Arsenal, is billed to meet the Super Eagles in a friendly game in Abuja on August 5, the organiser of the Gunners tour of Africa has announced.
It is the first time the North London club will be coming to Nigeria, and the organiser says that tickets will go on sale in outlets across the country on July 4. According to tour promoter, DanJan Sports, the agreement for the game has been finalised with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
“We are delighted to announce that Arsenal Football Club will face the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Abuja,” David Omigie of DanJan Sports said. “The NFF has agreed that the country will present a strong side as coach Stephen Keshi continues his development process.
“The Arsenal manager (Arsene Wenger) will also use this game to showcase his full squad for the 2012/2013 football season.”
The London club traditionally hosts an annual pre-season tournament at the Emirates Stadium but opted to postpone the event for a year because of the 2012 London Olympics. The visit to Nigeria will conclude Arsenal’s pre-season tour after playing in both China and Malaysia in July.
Arsenal said in its official website: “The club last visited Africa during a tour of South Africa in July 1993, and is returning as a result of the fantastic support which exists for the team, not only in Nigeria, but across the entire continent.”
DanJan Sports also revealed that tickets for the upcoming friendly match with Nigeria would go on sale from July 4 across outlets to be announced soon. In July 2008, Danjan Sports brought two other English clubs, Manchester United and Portsmouth, to Abuja for a pre-season friendly. As well as the match between the two, Portsmouth also played against Nigeria Premier League side, Kano Pillars.
Meanwhile, the NFF says it has not signed any contract with Belgian coach, Tom Saintfiet, as the country’s technical director. The appointment of Saintfiet has generated a lot of reactions after the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, asked the federation to jettison the idea of employing the Belgian.
NFF Media Committee Chairman, Emeka Inyama, told MTNFootball.com: “We don’t have any contractual agreement with Saintfiet. We only announced that we have resolved to give him the job. No papers were signed, no contract was entered into and as such we have no reason to say we are sacking him.”
On March 28, Inyama addressed a world press conference announcing that the 38-year old Belgian had been handed a four-year contract with a $20,000 monthly salary. However, the NFF has failed in its effort to secure a work permit for the former coach of Ethiopia and Namibia. It is now believed that the job would be given to a Nigerian.
ENGLISH Premiership club, Arsenal, is billed to meet the Super Eagles in a friendly game in Abuja on August 5, the organiser of the Gunners tour of Africa has announced.
It is the first time the North London club will be coming to Nigeria, and the organiser says that tickets will go on sale in outlets across the country on July 4. According to tour promoter, DanJan Sports, the agreement for the game has been finalised with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
“We are delighted to announce that Arsenal Football Club will face the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Abuja,” David Omigie of DanJan Sports said. “The NFF has agreed that the country will present a strong side as coach Stephen Keshi continues his development process.
“The Arsenal manager (Arsene Wenger) will also use this game to showcase his full squad for the 2012/2013 football season.”
The London club traditionally hosts an annual pre-season tournament at the Emirates Stadium but opted to postpone the event for a year because of the 2012 London Olympics. The visit to Nigeria will conclude Arsenal’s pre-season tour after playing in both China and Malaysia in July.
Arsenal said in its official website: “The club last visited Africa during a tour of South Africa in July 1993, and is returning as a result of the fantastic support which exists for the team, not only in Nigeria, but across the entire continent.”
DanJan Sports also revealed that tickets for the upcoming friendly match with Nigeria would go on sale from July 4 across outlets to be announced soon. In July 2008, Danjan Sports brought two other English clubs, Manchester United and Portsmouth, to Abuja for a pre-season friendly. As well as the match between the two, Portsmouth also played against Nigeria Premier League side, Kano Pillars.
Meanwhile, the NFF says it has not signed any contract with Belgian coach, Tom Saintfiet, as the country’s technical director. The appointment of Saintfiet has generated a lot of reactions after the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, asked the federation to jettison the idea of employing the Belgian.
NFF Media Committee Chairman, Emeka Inyama, told MTNFootball.com: “We don’t have any contractual agreement with Saintfiet. We only announced that we have resolved to give him the job. No papers were signed, no contract was entered into and as such we have no reason to say we are sacking him.”
On March 28, Inyama addressed a world press conference announcing that the 38-year old Belgian had been handed a four-year contract with a $20,000 monthly salary. However, the NFF has failed in its effort to secure a work permit for the former coach of Ethiopia and Namibia. It is now believed that the job would be given to a Nigerian.
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