Maigari to lead Delegation to Brazil For World Cup Draw Ceremony
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari will lead Nigeria’s delegation – which includes The Chairman of the NFF Technical Committee, Chris Green; Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi; NFF’s Director of Marketing, Adama Idris; NFF’s Assistant Director (Media), Ademola Olajire; Super Eagles’ Team Administrator, Dayo Enebi Achor – to Friday’s 2014 FIFA World Cup Draw Ceremony taking place in Costa do Sauipe, Salvador in Brazil.
The delegation will travel to Johannesburg on Tuesday night and then connect a South African Airways flight from Johannesburg to Sao Paulo on Wednesday morning, before flying to Salvador where the 90-minutes Draw will kick off at 16hours GMT, 5:00 p.m. Nigerian time, at the Costa do Sauipe Resort in Mata de Sao Joao.
Host Brazil, record five-time champions, will head Group A of the finals taking place between June 12 and July 13 next year; with reigning champions, Spain; three-time champions, Germany; two-time winners, Argentina; two-time winners, Uruguay; Switzerland; Colombia; and Belgium (the other seeded teams) heading seven other groups. All 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four teams each, with the top two teams advancing to the Round of 16.
After the Draw Ceremony, there will be individual meetings of the participating member associations with team services at the same venue, where agreements for friendly matches are expected to be concluded. There will also be inspection visits to team venues.
Nigeria’s best performance at the World Cup previously remains a Round of 16 berth at her debut in 1994, in which the Super Eagles were unlucky to lose to Italy after leading for 88 minutes at the Foxboro Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
