The Super Eagles of Nigeria has been scheduled to play against the
El- Tricolor of Mexico in a World Cup warm-up match.
The Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) and its FIFA Match Agent Jairo Pachon of
Eurodata Sport revealed this on Thursday. The match has been slated
for March 5th- one of the FIFA-free days.
The match, which is been organized by Soccer United Marketing
(SUM) and the Mexican Football Federation’s US representative, with
the cooperation of Eurodata Sport, will be played in Georgia Dome
and AT & T Stadium in Georgia, Atlanta, USA.
Mexico and Nigeria- two nations competing at the Brazil 2014 World
Cup finals- have met five times with Nigeria winning just once and
Mexico three times, plus a draw which came the last time they met in
May at the Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas, USA.
The March friendly serves as a build up for the 2014 FIFA World Cup
in Brazil.
Nigeria have been drawn alongside Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina
and Iran in Group F while Mexico will play Brazil, Croatia, Cameroon
in Group A.
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