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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Super Eagles goalkeeper, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, has been ruled out of this weekend\u2019s friendly with Mexico.<\/p>\n

NFF Technical Director, Austin Eguavoen, has confirmed the 32-year-old is injured.<\/p>\n

Ezenwa suffered an ankle injury during a training session in the Abuja camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a bit funny, he came with no problem at all and then we had a very tough training session, he complained about his ankle and the medical team managed him well,\u201d Eguavoen told NFF media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next day, he came out and that evening, he said he could not even walk and it was swollen. Up until yesterday, we were trying to see how far we can go, we have taken him to the hospital for a scan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the good news is that the scan revealed there is no fracture, just ligament \u2013 swollen tissues. The swelling is still there and he has not trained for the past two days.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is out and I will speak to him later, he should just take it in good fate, another opportunity will present itself. He is out of the trip, so we are having two goalkeepers.\u201d<\/p>\n

AFCON: I\u2019ll treat Okoye, Uzoho, Noble same way Enyeama treated me \u2013 Ikechukwu Ezenwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Super Eagles goalkeeper, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, has been ruled out of this weekend\u2019s friendly with Mexico. NFF Technical Director, Austin Eguavoen, has confirmed the 32-year-old is injured. Ezenwa suffered an ankle injury during a training session in the Abuja camp. \u201cIt is a bit funny, he came with no problem at all and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4690,254,453],"class_list":["post-46006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-mexico","tag-nigeria","tag-super-eagles"],"yoast_head":"\nSuper Eagles suffer injury blow ahead of Mexico clash - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Super Eagles goalkeeper, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, has been ruled out of this weekend\u2019s friendly with Mexico. 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