NFF storm Anfield for Croatia, Brazil friendly

The Nigeria Football Federation will hit Anfield, the home ground of English Premiership League (EPL) side, Liverpool with a decent delegation to watch, as World Cup opponents, Croatia tackle Brazil in a friendly on June 3.

The NFF are condemned to watch the match since it would hold a day after the England, Nigeria friendly at the Wembley Stadium.

This was disclosed to SportingLife.ng on Wednesday by a member of the executive committee who revealed that they have been keeping tabs on the schedule of all their opponents as regards friendly matches ahead of the World Cup.

“So, we don’t have any excuse whatsoever not to attend the match since the team will still be in London,” said the official.

Already Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has been informed about the proposed friendly so that he can begin to plan with his assistants on how they intend to monitor their opponents.

“That way they would know what to do,” explained the official.

Nigeria face Croatia in their World Cup opener on June 16.

“The coach is also very happy that the friendly will be played in London so that the technical team will be there as a group to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each player.

“We expect the coaches to watch all the tapes of the friendly matches of all their opponents before heading to Russia,”” added the official.

In terms of importance, Nigeria has rated its World Cup opener against Croatia as a most win and Rohr”s job will be to watch the likes of Ivan Rakitic, Luka Mordric in action against Marcelo, Countinho, Gabriel Jesus and Neymar.