Finally, Super Eagles Arrive Brazil On Sunday Morning
Finally, after the bonus row that threatened to mar Nigeria's participation at the Fifa Confederations Cup, the Super Eagles squad arrived <span class="notranslate"> Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves International Airport around 1.40 am, the online edition of TV Globo,<i> globoesporte.globo.com</i> is reporting. <br /><br />The flight to the capital of the Brazilian state of </span><span class="st">Minas Gerais took the team approximately 13 hours, discounting airport waiting times.<br /><br />Two hours were spent flying from Windhoek to Johannesburg, then another ten from Johannesburg to Sao Paulo. <br /><br />Approximately one hour was used to transit between Sao Paulo and </span><span class="notranslate">Belo Horizonte. <br /><br />It was around 3:00 am on Sunday morning that the delegation could check into their hotel rooms.<br /><br />It is believed that the Nigeria Federation has placed a gag order on the Super Eagles as none of the players agreed to talk about the bonus incident on arrival in Brazil.<br /><br />When Kenneth Omeruo was questioned by the media, he refused to give details on the protest which delayed the team's arrival by two days.<br /><br />Led by manager Stephen Keshi, the squad will have their first training session later this afternoon.<br /></span>
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