January 05, (THEWILL) –Â Ahmed Musa, the captain of the senior men’s national football team, the Super Eagles, was absent from the team’s last training session on Wednesday at the MKO Abiola National Stadium in Abuja due to the death of a family member.
Following the incident, the Turkish Fatih Karagumruk striker was granted permission to leave the team’s camp to visit with family members.
Musa, who was part of the 2013 Super Eagles squad that won the AFCON for the third time in South Africa under the late Stephen Keshi, will later join his colleagues in Cameroon ahead of Nigeria’s first match of the campaign on January 11 against Egypt.
The 28-year-old, who is the most capped player of the Super Eagles, made the squad to represent the country at the 33rd edition of the continental competition and will hopefully be in the lineup to face the Pharaohs of Egypt.
He is one of the forwards who honoured the country’s invitation as a combination of circumstances and club interventions prevented Al Shabab’s Jude Odion Ighalo, Watford’s Emmanuel Dennis and Napoli’s Victor Osimhen from joining the Super Eagles’ camp.
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