An All Stars
cast of the
Nigeria Professional Football
League (NPFL) players will
embark on an international
friendly tour of Spain as part
of the recently signed
Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU)
between the the League
Management Company
(LMC) and the Spanish
Football League, LaLiga.
Chairman of the LMC, Shehu
Dikko announced the firming
of the plans for the tour
after a meeting in Abuja on
Friday with LaLiga Africa Representative, Antonio Barradas. He said the NPFL All
Stars selected side will play in the Carranza & LaLiga World Tournament and also
against Valencia CF. For the Carranza and LaLiga World Tournament, the NPFL All
Stars will play Malaga CF on August 12 and 13 but before then, will play their first
game in Spain against Valencia CF on August 10.
The Ramon de Carranza Trophy is a pre-season tournament organized by Cadiz CF
in memory of its former President, Ramon de Carranza. It has been played since
1955 and is rated one of the prestigious summer tournaments in Spain alongside
the Teresa Herrera Trophy. Sevilla CF won the inaugural edition in 1955 while
Atletico Madrid are the defending champions. Some of the top European and South
American teams that have participated in the tournament include 2012 winners,
Club Desportivo Nacional and Benfica of Portugal, Sampdoria of Italy, Flamengo and
Vasco Da Gama of Brazil amongst others.
The NPFL/LaLiga partnership was consummated at the Abuja Hilton on April 26 and
provides for extensive collaboration between the two leagues in the areas of
players development, management capacity building and knowledge sharing.
“We are delighted to confirm that there will be an NPFL All Stars team to
participate World Tournament which is part of the pre-season activities of the two
Spanish Clubs, Valencia CF and Malaga CF on August 10, 12 and 13.
“The NPFL All Stars team will be made up of the best players in the league this
season and it will offer them the opportunity of showcasing their abilities and
possibly secure offers from any European club as the match will be broadcast live
on some European television channels”, Dikko stated.
The LMC Chairman said the implementation of the friendly match exchange is in
line with the agreement with LaLiga to have clubs from both leagues visit the other
adding that it is expected that in the near future, Spanish Clubs will undertake a
friendly tour of Nigeria as well.
Dikko also disclosed that the visit will provide opportunity for selected Club
Administrators to have a close study of club management, match day organization
and other activities for the good administration of clubs in the league through
scheduled interactions with LalIga clubs’ top officials.

On the issue of selection of NPFL all stars against La Liga team

@chibuzor that is technically correct and so we are looking at the matches in Spain with an eye to kick start our World Cup qualifiers preparation by getting a solid home based team available to the super eagles coaches to build on with the foreign base players to start the qualifies ... So all good and double delight for Nigeria
Well, as per the selection of the NPFL All stars, LMC have already written to and have received submission from all the 19 NPFL head coaches from the 19 clubs, nominating their BEST 11 players across the league and SECOND 11 making a squad of 22.... Thus this submission would provide a guide to the coaches and technical team in selecting the 23 man team to travel... The idea is that those players that appear more on this list from the coaches surely indicate they are worth considering .... Age is also being looked at since we want to expose players that have a longer year to play for obvious reasons...

Indeed, the NPFL coaches were not told what the selection would be for as LMC did this since last week so we believe they all gave us their best team as they honestly believe they are the best players they have seen .....

August 10th vs Valencia

August 12th vs Malaga
In the laliga world tour trophy

August 13th vs Malaga in the final of the Laliga world tour trophy

Matches would be beamed lived in Nigeria across all networks both cable and terrestrial.

The matches would also be beam live in Europe across some networks

All matches schedule for 8pm nigeria time

Delegation to leave 8th to return 15th August

Interesting games awaiting

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