Flying Eagles  friendly with Benin cancelled

The friendly match which was scheduled to take place between the Flying Eagles and their Beninoise counterparts this weekend has been put on hold. 

The friendly match which was scheduled for the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on Sunday was aimed at aiding the preparations of both teams for their upcoming African Youth Championship qualifiers coming up against the U-20 teams of Tanzania and Ghana respectively.

The Benin Republic U-20 team were supposed to arrive at Lagos on Friday evening, but will no longer make the trip as the Benin FA now claim that a Court Injunction has made it impossible for their U-20 team to turn up for the junior international friendly match.

The friendly match was supposed to be the first big test for the Flying Eagles since their poor outing at the Cape Town International Challenge in South Africa at the end of May.

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria will take on the Junior Taifa Stars of Tanzania in Dar-es-Salaam on July 28 in the first leg of the 2013 African Youth Championship qualifier, with the return leg in Nigeria taking place on August 11.