• Obasi, Joel Obi still absent
Eighteen players of the Super Eagles participated in the team’s evening session at the U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar yesterday.
The players and officials arrived at the stadium around 3:45pm to the delight of the anticipated Calabar fans who had been anxiously waiting to see them after a long time.
The players,who were fully kitted in white jersey, moved straight to the pitch even before the technical crew asked them to do so and divided themselves into three groups.
Austin Ejide, Ahmed Musa, Ogenyi Onazi, Kenneth Omeruo, Elderson Echiejile, Mikel Obi, Ejike Egwuekwe were in the group knocking the ball around while Nosa Igiebor, Juwon Osaniwa, Godfrey Oboabona, Efe Ambrose and Ramon Azeez formed another group.
The third group had Chigozie Agbim, Christian Ighodaro Osaguona, Kunle Odunlami, Uche Nwofor and Sone Aluko.
The players trained for five minutes before it was halted by the technical crew for prayers. Immediately after, Super Eagles assistant coach Valere Houandinou and Ike Shorunmu led the players in the jogging exercise which lasted about six minutes before the normal training session.
The evening training session was in three parts. The first part had some players in blue bib while others donned white. The players in blue were Mikel, Onazi, Efe, Ramon, Oboabona, Agbim, Osaguona, Emeruo and Echiejile while the players in white shirt were Musa, Nosa, Juwon, Salami, Nwofor, Ejide, Odunlami and Egwuekwe.
In the second training session, the squad was divided into two groups; each group had eight players which faced themselves in a four-aside game.
The first team, which was guided by coach Daniel Amokachi had Mikel, Musa, Osaguona, Nwofor on their side facing Salami, Ramon, Igiebor and Sone Aluko while the second team led by coach Valere included Juwon, Onazi, Egwuekwe and Odunlami and they played against Echiejile, Oboabona, Omeruo and Efe.
The third session had the team divided into two for a full training session which lasted about an hour supervised by the head coach Stephen Keshi. After a delightful training, the squad ended the training with jogging and various exercises.
Meanwhile,four players were conspicuously missing in the second training session yesterday. The players are Chinedu Obasi, Nnamdi Oduamadi, Joel Obi, Emmanuel Emenike and David Obiazor who replaced Vincent Enyeama.
The training came to an end with prayer at 5:55pm.
