Dream Team V open camp in Abuja October 2

Nigeria's national U-23 men football team will open camp in Abuja on October 2 ahead of its campaign in the final round of London 2012 Olympic Games qualifiers.

The team's media officer, Arafat Aliu, on Thursday in Abuja, said this was part of the team's recently-approved programme.

"This is part of the team's new schedule which was approved on Tuesday, September 20 in Abuja by the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA)," he said.

NAN reports that the team known as "Dream Team V" has qualified for the eight-nation final round of African qualifiers for the Olympic Games.

The championship scheduled for Egypt from November 26 to December 10 has hosts Egypt, Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa as participants.

Mr Aliu disclosed that the team's head coach, Austin Eguavoen, would then use the next FIFA international match days of October 7 to 11 to visit some of his players in Europe.

"The first phase of camping will as expected be for the home-based players, while the technical crew and NFA will then deliberate on those to be invited from abroad to join the team," he said.

The team's spokesperson said the second and final phase of the camping will hold from November 7 to 20.

"This will be in either Turkey or Portugal and it is from there that the team will depart for Cairo on November 22," he added.

Source: 234next.com