Saturday, 28 February 2015

Enyimba Jets In To Benin Ahead Of Champions League Match

Enyimba Int'l have arrived the capital city of Benin Republic, Cotonou ahead of Sunday's Champions League fixture against Buffles du Borgu.


The two-time CAF Champions League winners, have been in a closed camping in Ota, Ogun state which is just two hours drive to Cotonou.

An advanced team led by the club chairman and board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, Felix Anyansi on Friday ensured logistic was perfect, for the players and officials to be lodged at a comfortable hotel.

The advanced team fumed over poor level of logistic and accomodation their host offered them. 

"We are not satisfied with the reception of our hosts, we treated them like Kings when they visited Nigeria. We invested a lot of money making them comfortable, it is sad this is what we got from them," Anyansi fumed.

"We are more experienced and such act is not enough to distract us, though we expect all teams in this competition to be professional, the rules are clear and it is important all teams respects the rules.

"We saw this coming, reason why the management decided to send an advanced team to make sure accomodation and other logistics are perfect before the full contigent arrive. Despite their antics, we are optimistic of reaching the next round." He said.

The other contigents consisting of players and the technical crew later arrived Cotonou 7pm local time, after the advanced team had solved the logistic problems.

The team is lodged at Hotel GL, located at Akpakpa about twenty (20) minutes drive to the stadium. The players will train and have a feel of the pitch on Saturday morning.

Stade de L'amitié  Cotonou will host the game on Sunday at 4pm local, same time with Nigeria. 

Enyimba won the first leg 3-0 in Aba.

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