Reigning African champions Algeria have been lined up for an international friendly with three-time continental kings Nigeria.
Gernot Rohr’s men were billed to take on Cote d’Ivoire on October 9 in Austria before facing Tunisia at the same venue four days later.
However, that will not happen as the West African country, through the Federation Ivorienne de Football, wrote to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that they would be unable to send a team to the European country for the encounter due to internal problems.
n a positive twist of fate, Algeria has accepted to try Nigeria for size on the same date at the Jacques Lemans Arena.
“We have permission from our government to travel from Algeria to Austria and our country has reopened international flights,” wrote Mohamed Saad, general secretary of the Federation Algerienne de Football as per a statement from the NFF.
“We also would like to confirm that Fifa match agent Me Jairo Pachon is authorised to carry on all the required work and planning in Austria in order to stage this event.”
That encounter would be the fourth meeting between the Super Eagles and the Desert Foxes in three years.