The much-publicized international friendly between five-time world champions Brazil and the Super Eagles of Nigeria will no longer hold as scheduled.

As publicized by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and indeed the Akwa Ibom State government, the Super Eagles were penciled to face the Samba Boys on March 29 at the newly built Akwa Ibom International Stadium named the ‘Nest of Champions’.

Brazil Global Tour on Friday confirmed that Brazil will meet Chile in a friendly on March 29, 2015 at Emirates Stadium, London instead of the Super Eagles.

The Brazil-Chile game will be a rematch of the World Cup second round clash between the two in June of last year in which the Brazilians emerged tops after prevailing in the penalty shootout in Belo Horizonte.

Before the March 29 clash with Chile, Coach Dunga’s side will play against France in Paris on March 26 and the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, had before claimed the Brazilians will fly to Nigeria afterwards.

“It is not true that the match has been cancelled. There is nothing like that. What people are probably not clear about is the fact that Brazil will play France around the same period,” NFF president Pinnick stated late last year when eyebrows were first raised about the friendly.

He continued: “Brazil will play France on March 26, while they will fly to Nigeria to play the Super Eagles at the Akwa Ibom International Stadium on March 29. The two games and dates are quite different,”

It is yet to be seen if the NFF will find an alternative having stated that they will want to make the most of every FIFA window to play friendly games that would help improve the Super Eagles as well as raise their rating.


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This is so disappointing, I was really looking forward to that game.

They are scared of the super eagles.
#justkidding

hit like if you don't want buhari or Jonathan

Omg! See wetin BirdFlu cause.

Why now

ok

somting they tell me say them dey fear bokohalam

Too bad I guess dy find n fix anoda date

Bad publicity!

Ah! We dey play match ?

who you go blameNa GEJ OR GMB.Oya start bashing

D fear of boko haram is d beginning of wisdom........ Samba boys, I support u jaré....

K

The super eagles are way past their glory days.
Y not slug it out with India? Maybe the fairytale will be re-ignited

What a shame ...

no amount of friendly matches can compensate for the Nations Cup absence.....they should stop fooling themselves.





The Super Eagles are no longer a force for other teams to test their strength.

why. This should have been a high level friendly to test our players. Well its not the end

No mind dem. Dem dey fear 7-0 like Germany own . If I hear.

Badluck.

The fear of boko is the beginning of?

That's bad........weitin Brazil dey feel like? Abegi make dem shift jor, let's invite German, world yampion

kekakuz:
hit like if you don't want buhari or Jonathan

Are you aware that what is discussed here is sports? What did you eat this night that got your brains working anti-clock wise?

It is becsuse nigeria girls wear brazillian hair

well am not surprised, if an ordinary country like Sudan is backing out, why not d Almighty Brazil, my point is we don't be a team for nw n they knw it

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It should not be a surprise that Brazil is backing out of the friendly.
Firstly we don't have a team, a coach infact our sport is generally nothing to write home about at this moment. we need to start from the scratch.

Holy Ghost self don back out since last year.

Why would they play a friendly against a weak team that could not even qualify for nations cup, the whole team should be dissolve and replaced with the flying eagles... those boys are the future of our football.