KESHI: WE'LL PLAY MEXICO AS AFRICAN CHAMPIONS

KESHI: WE'LL PLAY MEXICO AS AFRICAN CHAMPIONS

Posted: May 30, 2013

Super Eagles head coach,Stephen Keshi says the reigning African champions  are battle-ready to confront CONCACAF champions Mexico in a prestigeous, high-profile international friendly match at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, United States of America on Friday.

The Super Eagles' contingent to the match arrived in the United States of America on Tuesday afternoon, landing at the Houston InternationalAirport at exactly 2:40pm local time (8:40pm Nigeria time) after an 11-hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany.

The team was received by Chairman of the NFF Media and Publicity Committee, Chief Emeka Inyama, and Mr. Jairo Pachon, NFF's FIFA Match Agent who is organizing the big match alongside the Match Agent of Federacion Mexicana de Futball Association, Mexico's football body.

After airport formalities, the delegation was driven to its The Westin Galleria hotel in West Alabama and immediately had lunch. In order to shake off jet-lag, the team set out for evening training and was also scheduled to train on Wednesday evening, to get used to evening period of the match.

  Keshi said he is confident the African champions would do the continent proud in the game of Continental Kings.

"We are here to give a good account of ourselves as a team and also as the champion team of Africa,"  Keshi said. --------------------------- Complete Sports