Paris 2024: Nigeria, Ghana in a tie for qualifiers
Posted : 16 May 2023
Nigeria's senior men's national rugby team, the Black Stallions, will kick off their campaign for Paris 2024 Olympics qualifiers with the first game against Ghana in Mauritius.
The Black Stallions will be hoping to cause another upset by making it to the Olympics after shocking the world in 2014 by qualifying for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
They will take on Burundi, which would be crucial, before tackling the Democratic Republic of the Congo in their last pool.
A match Nigeria began their preparation for the Olympics qualifiers in early May with the convergence of players based in the United Kingdom under the watchful eyes of Temi Okenla.
The newly appointed Black Stallions coach, Steve Lewis, has been supervising players based in Europe and the United States of America.
The bulk of the selected players are expected to go camping before travelling to Mauritius for the first phase of the qualifier. 12 Countries will converge in Mauritius on June 24–25 to compete for the four available slots in the Africa Cup Sevens slated for Zimbabwe in September.
Participating countries include Mauritius, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Botswana, Cameroun, Algeria, and Nigeria. Others include Burundi, Congo, Lesotho, Sénégal, and Egypt.
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