Nigeria vs Catalonia

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will play against a Catalonia selected side an international friendly match on January 2nd, 2013. Stephen Keshi named a provisional squad of 32 ahead of Africa's soccer showpiece in South Africa.

Nosa Igiebor has been ruled out of the match, while Ike Uche may start from the bench after the Spanish-based player arrived the venue of the match with about 24 hours to the game. The last time Nigeria faced a Catalomia side was in the year 1998. Nigeria were beaten 4-0 ahead of the France 1998 World cup.
Nigeria's senior team at the Abuja National stadium

Victor Moses and John Obi Mikel will not play. The duo will be available for the Chelsea vs QPR match on the same day. Ahmed Musa, Brown Ideye, Emmanuel Emenike are some of the players that will prosecute the match against the Spanish side. Some Barcelona players will also play against Nigeria..

--> The Nigeria-Catalonia match will be played at 7 pm Nigerian time(18:00GMT) at the Espanyol stadium in the city of Barcelona. Zambia,Burkina Faso and Ethiopia are the teams Nigeria will face at the group stage of South Africa 2013. The tournament will kick off on January 19th in Johannesburg.

In a related development, Tunisia defeated Iran by 2-1 on Sunday.

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