NFF At Odds With Oliseh Over CHAN?

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will now train in Pretoria, South Africa ahead of African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2016, Africanfootball.com reports.

Coach Sunday Oliseh had proposed the team set up a training camp in Tanzania but officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) swerved due to the fact that Tanzania have no standard artificial pitch, which will be what will be used in Rwanda.

According to a release signed by Ademola Olajire, the NFF media director, the Super Eagles set up a training base in Pretoria later this month.

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President of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick looks on as Sunday Oliseh speaks

Nigeria are appearing for their second CHAN after they debuted at the tournament reserved for players featuring in their various home leagues.

The team finished 3^rd at the last edition and will be hoping to do better next year when the 2016 edition will be staged in Rwanda.

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Nigeria are drawn alongside Niger, Tunisia and Guinea. The competition kicks off on January 16, 2016 in Kigali.

The creation of the African Nations Championship was a response to the desire to revive or strengthen national competitions regularly weakened by a mass exodus of top players who leave their home countries to play for foreign teams which will pay more and get them more media coverage.

Coach Sunday Oliseh has kick started his CHAN campaign with the invitation to camp of 26 players for the first phase of his preparatory camp ahead of next month’s 4th African Nations Championship in Rwanda.

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