NPFL Champions Rivers United Focus On Madrid Trip For Pre season

2021/22 NPFL champions, Rivers United are engrossed in preparation for a visit to Spain for preseason coaching camp in Madrid forward of their 2023 CAF Champions League, NPFL and Aiteo Cup campaigns,

Rivers United emerged 2021/2022 NPFL winners in medical style, amassing a record-setting 74 factors , shattering their 2011 71 factors report.

Eguma’s males had been massively rewarded by a delighted Governor, Barrister Nyesom Ezewo Wike, who gifted every participant of the triumphant group $20, 000.

Wike didn’t cease at that. He accredited and introduced a two-week preseason tenting for the group in Madrid, with program on the Laliga giants, Actual Madrid.

The preseason tenting in Europe, Wike stated throughout a State reception for the squad, was to adequately put together the Rivers United for the CAF Champions League marketing campaign subsequent season and promised to reward every of the gamers with $40,000 in the event that they attain the Group Stage of the continent’s most glamourous interclub competitors.

As Rivers United put together for the Madrid journey, Eguma tells Completesports that they’re condemned to match the Governor’s mandate and expectation.

“We’re making ready for the journey to Spain for our preseason coaching camp,” Eguma advised Completesports.com Thursday.

“You Know, it’s stated, ‘to whom a lot is given, a lot is predicted’. We’re grateful to the Governor for motivating the group to victory within the NPFL.

“He made certain we lacked completely nothing when it comes to welfare and inspiration.

“We’re additionally eternally completely happy and grateful to him for the reward he gave the group, gamers, coaches and officers.

“Above all, he has set the tonic for us to excel within the continent subsequent yr by approving a preseason coaching camp for us in Spain and it’s our utmost ambition to take advantage of the chance with a view to do nicely within the Champions League and make him completely happy, in addition to the folks of the state and Nigerians basically”.

Eguma added: “Proper now, we’re engrossed within the preparation for the Spain journey.

“I don’t know what number of gamers that will make the journey. It relies on the sponsors – Rivers State Authorities, that’s what number of gamers they might approve for us.

“We’re pushing for the journey paperwork, visas. In fact, the journey gained’t be this month, July, as a result of it’s already ending.

“I don’t know the particular date but, however definitely, will probably be subsequent month, August, in order that we might be again on time to face the continental and home challenges”.

On Tuesday, the League Administration Firm, LMC, organisers of the Nigerian high flight, introduced September 24 because the date for the beginning of 2022/2023 NPFL.