SportsConfirmed: Eagles To Play Poland In World Cup Friendly On March 23

Confirmed: Eagles To Play Poland In World Cup Friendly On March 23

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BEVERLY HILLS, January 01, (THEWILL) – The Super Eagles of Nigeria will play against Poland in a friendly affair on March 23 as both teams are searching for warm-up encounters ahead of the Russia 2018 World Cup.

Poland, who are housed in Group H alongside Japan, Colombia and Senegal, open their Russia 2018 campaign against the Lions of Teranga in Moscow on June 19.

The White and Reds manager Adam Nawałka believes playing a strong side like Nigeria would help him prepare his team to match the physical style of play of the Senegalese.

Nigeria is drawn in Group D alongside Croatia, South American powerhouse Argentina and tournament’s dark horses Iceland.

The Eagles, who will be making their sixth World Cup appearance in Russia this year, are looking to win their first game against Croatia at the Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad on June 16.

Nigeria’s coach Gernot Rohr sees a friendly against the Eastern European nation, to be played in Warsaw, as good contest to prepare for the Croats, who have a similar playing style to the Polish.

“The World Cup is the big one next year and I believe we are going to be very ready when the tournament kicks off,” Amaju Pinnick, President of the Nigeria Football Federation was quoted as saying on the thenff.com.

“We have lined up four friendly matches starting with the game with Poland in Warsaw on March 23. There will be other matches on March 27, May 28 (in Nigeria) and June 2.

“Largely, it was an excellent year, on and off the field. The bookmakers, analysts and football fans all over the world thought we were going to find it difficult in our World Cup qualifying group, but we made it to Russia with a match to spare.

“Now, we have already kick-started the preparations to the finals with a landmark agreement with the team on funds and renewal of the coach’s contract to keep him fully focused on the job.

“Like the World Cup, qualification for the CHAN was also down to hard work and focus. We are ready to work even harder and focus much more ardently on our objectives in the year 2018, because we want to win the CHAN and achieve our best-ever outing at the World Cup.”

THEWILL recalls that the Eagles have booked friendly fixtures against Egypt in May and England at Wembley in June.

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