The Super Eagles will face Ghana’s Black Stars and Mali’s Les Aigles in two top-grade friendly matches in the Moroccan city of Marrakech later this month.
Coordinated by NFF’s FIFA Match Agent, Jairo Pachon of Eurodata Sport, the clash with Ghana’s Black Stars is on Friday, 22nd March, promises some scintillating moments in the 73-year rivalry between West African giants which dates back to October 1951 when Nigeria bounced then Gold Coast 5-0 in a Jalco Cup encounter in Lagos.
Recently, the two teams clashed in March 2022 in a two-legged play-off for a place at that year’s FIFA World Cup finals in Qatar, with the Black Stars edging the fixture on the away-goal rule after a 1-1 aggregate.
Nigeria and Mali, sharing the team name ‘Eagles’, last clashed in a friendly match in Rouen, France in the summer of 2016. A match that ended goalless. The Malian Eagles had, three years earlier, lost 1-4 to winners Super Eagles in Durban in the semi-finals of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
