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CAF Postpones Super Eagles clash against Guinea Bissau to 2023
Confederation of African Soccer has postponed the qualifiers following the extension of the beginning date of the AFCON
With the following AFCON in Cote D’Ivoire now postponed to 2024, CAF has prolonged the date of Nigeria’s conflict in opposition to Guinea Bissau to 2023.
Desk toppers, the Tremendous Eagles have been initially billed to face Guinea Bissau over two legs in September however the video games will now be performed between the twenty second and twenty eighth of March, 2023.
CAF had postponed the event because of unfavourable climate situations in 2023 summer time.
“The Confederation of African Soccer (“CAF”)_ Govt Committee has authorised a revised TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023 revised qualification calendar, ” an announcement on CAF web site stated.
“This was necessitated by the Govt Committee’s dedication to make room for the African nations which have certified for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in November/ December 2022 to organize adequately.
“Consequently, the September 2022 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire match day three and match day 4 qualifiers have been moved to 20-28 March 2023.
“Match day 5 will now be on 12-20 June 2023 whereas match day six might be performed on 4-12 September 2023.
What does this imply for the Tremendous Eagles?
The Tremendous Eagles didn’t qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and will not be engaged through the interval, besides the NFF organises pleasant video games in opposition to World Cup members.
Nigeria may additionally must play pleasant video games on each obtainable window to maintain the group engaged till March subsequent yr.
