Super Eagles To Play Mexico On July 3 In Los Angeles

The Super Eagles will engage CONCACAF Gold Cup champions, Mexico, in a friendly match at the famous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the State of California, the United States of America on Saturday, 3rd July 2021.

The match, is expected to start at 7.30 pm LA time. This match will be the sixth confrontation between the senior teams of both countries, four of which have ended in draws, with Mexico wining one of the matches at US Gold Cup encounter in Dallas (State of Texas) 2-1 on 24th June 1995. Jonathan Akpoborie scored Nigeria’s only goal.

Other matches between both teams include a 1-1 draw at the FIFA Intercontinental Tournament for the King Fahd Cup (which is now known as the FIFA Confederations Cup) in Saudi Arabia on 13th January 1995 (Mexico prevailed 5-4 on penalties in the quarter-final match), and 0-0 draws in friendly matches in Houston and Atlanta the previous decade. Another friendly game in Mexico ended 2-2.

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The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, simply known as the LA Coliseum, is a 77,500 –capacity facility that has hosted major international championships of all grades, including the 1996 Men’s Olympics Football Tournament (won by Nigeria) and CONCACAF Gold Cup matches. The COCACAF Gold Cup is that continent’s equivalent of the Africa Cup of Nations finals and determines the continental champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Mexico is the most successful team in the CONCACAF Gold Cup with eight titles and are the current Cup holders.

Nigeria have won the Africa Cup of Nations three times and qualified for six of the last seven FIFA World Cup finals, reaching the Round of 16 in 1994, 1998, and 2014. The Super Eagles finished as bronze medalists at the last AFCON in Egypt two years ago.

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NFF’s FIFA Match Agent, Jairo Pachon of Euro data Sport, said: “We are happy to be able to announce this match, which is a clash between two very big teams from two different continents. Mexico against Nigeria is a big match any day and the venue is class.”

The two teams will announce their squads for the match in June.