Twelve out of 23 players expected to feature for the 
national team against the Harambee Stars of Kenya on Saturday started 
training in Calabar on Monday evening.
Apart from the nine home-based named earlier on Sunday by Coach 
Stephen Keshi, Israeli based keeper, Austin Ejide, Ukraine based 
midfielder Babatunde Michael and Velaranga of Norway combative 
midfielder, Fegor Ogude, were the early callers at the team’s camp at 
Transcorp Metropolitan Hotel in Calabar.
Ogude flew with the team from Abuja to Calabar, while Ejide joined up
 about an hour after the team’s arrival. Michael was just on time to hop
 into the team’s bus for the day’s training session.
The team departed for training at about 3:30pm at the Abaraham Ordia 
Sports Complex inside the University of Calabar and will repeat same 
tomorrow and all through the days  leading to the match against Harambee
 Stars.
Head Coach Stephen Keshi says he expects a full house by Tuesday 
morning, adding that training will be the same time and all players 
expected should have been in, as he needs a good number of training 
sessions for the team to jell against Kenya. “We would have a full house
 for Tuesday’s evening training and from there we see how ready the 
players are for the task at hand”, he declared.
The team had a light training session with the UNICAL Football team 
before it went into its own session that was supervised by Keshi and his
 assistants.
Keshi’s Nine NPL Stars: Chigozie Agbim, Godfrey Oboabona, Azubuike 
Egwueke, Gabriel Reuben, Sunday Mba, Solomon Kwambe, Benjamin Francis, 
Obinna Nwachukw, Gambo Mohammed.

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