There has been a little tweak in the October Friendlies game as African champions Algeria have now replaced Côte d’Ivoire as an opponent to the Nigerian Super Eagles.
Super Eagles were supposed to face Côte d’Ivoire on Friday, October 9 in a friendly game in Austria but that fixture has now been cancelled due to the Federation’s Ivoirienne de Football’s inability to send a team to Austria for the game as earlier agreed.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) while responding to this issue in a statement said the Ivorian FA cited ‘internal problems’ for their inability to be available for the friendly game.
General Secretary of the Federation Algerienne de Football wrote a letter to the NFF, saying thus;
“We have permission from our government to travel from Algeria to Austria and our country has reopened international flights. We also would like to confirm that FIFA match agent Me Jairo Pachon is authorised to carry on all the required work and planning in Austria in order to stage this event,”
