Super Eagles to face Man United, Man City stars as top international friendly is set for November

Nigeria has already set a pleasant match for September twenty seventh towards Algeria and can now face a prime European aspect in November

The Tremendous Eagles will face Portugal in a world pleasant match in November based on a press release launched by the NFF on Thursday on its official web site.

After an settlement between the NFF and the Federação Portuguesa de Futebo, the pleasant will maintain on the Estadio De Jose Alvalade in Lisbon on the seventeenth of November.

The sport is predicted to function a top-friendly sport for Portugal as they put together for the 2022 World Cup. They’ve been drawn in the identical group as Nigeria’s arch rivals who stopped the Tremendous Eagles from qualifying for the mundial, Ghana.

Portugal have an avalanche of world soccer stars together with one of many biggest man to have ever graced a pitch and their captain, Cristiano Ronaldo. Others are Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Ruben Dias and so on.

“The match with Portugal would be the first conflict at senior males stage for each international locations, although final 12 months summer season, the Tremendous Falcons and the Senior Girls Staff of Portugal fought out an exciting 3-3 draw within the USWNT Summer time Collection in Houston, Texas, USA.

“It can be recalled that in 1989, Portugal’s U20 boys defeated Nigeria’s U20 boys 2-0 within the last of the FIFA World Youth Championship (now FIFA U20 World Cup finals) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

“The Estádio José Alvalade is a pure grass facility that holds 50,000 spectators, and is residence venue for Sporting Clube de Portugal. The ability is called after José Alvalade, the founder and first membership member of Sporting CP who died in 1918. The stadium was opened in August 2003,” the NFF wrote in its assertion.