The Nigerian team will know its group opponents for the 16th edition of the tournament billed to kick off in October today, when FIFA holds the draw ceremony at the massive Art Centre 660 in the city of Santiago, capital of the nation, Chile as from 12:00 midnight.
“We are waiting to see who and who we are go­ing to meet after the draw on Thursday (today),” the Golden Eaglets’ Head Coach, Amuneke, told the official website of the Ni­geria Football Federation, thenff.com ahead of today’s draw.
“Though we don’t have the luxury of choosing the teams we want, we are pre­paring well for the tourna­ment and we would be ready to give a good account of ourselves,” the former Af­rican Footballer of the Year assured.
24 qualified countries would be drawn into six groups of four teams each, with defending champion and record four-time win­ner, Nigeria and host, Chile, would most likely be the seeded teams in their respec­tive groups.
The 24-team cast was made up of six from Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, Croatia and Eng­land); four from Asia (Aus­tralia, Korea Republic, Syria and Korea DPR); four from North