Olympic Playoffs: Eguavoen Settles For Ghana Camp

Nigeria Olympic team, the U-23 Eagles are set to finalise their preparations for the final qualifiers for the London 2012 in Ghana, beginning Sunday.

Dream Team V coach, Austin Eguavoen, told reporters in Abuja after his meeting with the technical committee of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, that his team have now settled for Ghana to round up their build-up for the Olympic qualifiers.

A squad of 25 players are expected to make the trip to Ghana with their overseas-based counterparts joining up them later.

Eguavoen had earlier proposed Turkey or Portugal but with the uncertainties surrounding securing entry visas into Europe for his squad at such short notice, it was finally agreed that they should move to Ghana to focus on the task ahead.

The weather conditions in Turkey are similar to that of Morocco, where the qualifiers will be staged from 26 November, officials told MTNFootball.com

Nigeria, historic Olympic Gold medalists in 1996, are drawn with hosts Morocco, Senegal and Algeria in the first round of the qualifying tournament.