Football Kenya Federation is worried over Nigeria’s continued silence on Super Eagles’ itinerary for the return leg of the 2014 World Cup qualifier between the Harambee Stars of Kenya and the Super Eagles.
More worrisome to the Kenyan authorities are reports that the Nigerian football governing body, the NFF are troubled over ‘possible retaliation’ for the poor treatment they accorded the Kenyan team in March when the Eagles hosted Harambee Stars in Calabar
But FKF CEO, Micheal Esakwa, while rubbishing the reports, said: “I will be writing to my counterparts in Nigeria because they need to inform us of their plans well in advance. We are not planning anything fishy. Kenyans are hospitable people and the only method we will use to exact revenge for the treatment our team received in Lagos is on the pitch.”
Unconfirmed reports in Kenya quoted the scribe of the Nigerian Football Federation, Musa Amadu as saying the Nigeria national football team will arrive in Nairobi hours before the highly-billed 2014 World Cup qualifier against Kenya
“On June 3rd they (Super Eagles) will leave Frankfurt Germany via Amsterdam to arrive in Nairobi, Kenya on June 4th so they can have training session later that day and get ready for the June 5th qualifier against Kenya at the Kasarani Stadium,” Amadu told a local radio station.
The NFF has, however, kept its counterpart, the Football Kenya Federation (FKF), in the dark regarding this development.
Meanwhile, Harambee Stars’ planned friendly match against Ghana’s Black Stars ahead of the Nigeria tie has been cancelled.
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