Officials have confirmed that the U-23 National Team, also known as Dream Team V, will camp at the Genesis Hotel, Challenge, Ibadan for its training programme ahead of the CAF African U-23 Championship starting in November., from where African representatives will be known.

Players invited have now been advised to report at the Genesis Hotel as from Wednesday, 5 October and these will have opportunity of proving themselves within a one-week period before Head Coach, Austin Eguavoen calls up his established players.

The Nigeria Football Federation is working assiduously to wrap up a number of quality friendly games for the U-23 team, and has confirmed that the team will round up preparations for the CAF tournament with a 10-day programme in Faro, Portugal from where the contingent will fly into Cairo on 22 November.

The CAF African U-23 Championship will take place in Cairo, Egypt from 26 November to 10 December with Nigeria to play Moro-cco, Senegal and Algeria in group B. The Dream Team V will take on Morocco on 27 November, and Senegal three days later, before confronting Algeria on 3 December. All these matches will come up at the Arab Contractors Stadium, Cairo.

The top two teams from each of the two groups of four teams each move to the semi finals, and only the best three will gain automatic slots at the London 2012 Olympics Men’s Football Tournament. The fourth-placed team is to play off against an Asian team in London on 12 April, 2012.

The Senior Women’s Team, Super Falcons, has also resumed camping in Abuja with 33 players, ahead of their potentially explosive return leg clash with All-Africa Games champions Cameroon in Yaounde on 22 October.

Nigeria won the first leg in Abuja 2-1. The winner on aggregate will join South Africa’s Banyana Banyana as Africa’s flag-bearers at the London 2012 Olympics Women’s Football Tournament.