Nigeria to know Morocco 2018 CHAN opponents today
17 November 2017 |
2:25 am
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will today know their group phase opponents at the Fifth African Nations Championship (CHAN) slated to kick on January 13, 2018 in Morocco.
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will today know their group phase opponents at the Fifth African Nations Championship (CHAN) slated to kick on January 13, 2018 in Morocco.
According to the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the draw ceremony will hold at the Hotel Sofitel Rabat, which also hosted CAF’s Extraordinary General Assembly following the first–ever African Football Symposium in Rabat in July this year.
The 16 teams that qualified for the finals have been drawn into four pots, from which they will be drawn into four groups of four for the 23–day championship.
Nigeria, winners of the bronze medals at the third CHAN in South Africa in 2014, have been slotted into Pot 2, alongside Cameroun, Guinea and Zambia.
Pot 1 has host nation Morocco, Angola, Cote d’Ivoire and Libya with Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Sudan in Pot 3 and Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania and Namibia in Pot D.
Group A will have its base in Casablanca (Morocco’s industrial and economic capital); Marrakech will host Group B; Group C will be based in Tangier and; Agadir will play host to Group D.
Nigeria failed to qualify for the first two editions of the CHAN, hosted by Cote d’Ivoire (2009) and Sudan (2011), but finished in third place in South Africa in 2014 after losing 1-2 to Mali in her first match and then defeating Mozambique 4-2 and host South Africa 3-1. In the quarterfinals, the Eagles came from 0-3 down at half time to defeat Morocco 4-3 after extra time, but they crumbled on penalty shoot –out to Ghana’s Black Stars in the semi finals, before pipping Zimbabwe to third place.In Rwanda last year, Nigeria trounced Niger Republic 4-1, only to draw 1-1 with Tunisia and lose 0-1 to Guinea to crash out at group stage.
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