By Babatunde Koiki:
Former African champions, Enyimba International Football Club are currently in transit in Casablanca, Morocco enroute Tunisia for the second leg of their CAF Champions League engagement with Etoile Sportive du Sahel scheduled for the Olympic Stadium in the Tunisian city of Sousse on Wednesday, 20th April 2016.
A team of 18 players departed Nigeria early Sunday morning aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight. Among the players who made the trip are Super Eagles, CHAN Eagles and Olympic team regulars like goalkeeper Femi Thomas, defender Chima Akas, forward Daniel Etor and NPFL record goalscorer Mfon Udoh.
Speaking to our correspondent, chairman of Enyimba Chief Anyansi Agwu assured that the team was in high spirits and had no injury worries. Although he admitted that the match in Sousse would be extremely tough, Chief Anyansi expressed his confidence that Enyimba would qualify for the group satge of the 2016 CAF Champions League.
In the first leg played a forthnight ago at the Adokiye Amasiemaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, Enyimba earned a resounding 3-0 win with Mfon Udoh scoring a hat trick.
Aggregate victory from this round will see the Nigeria Professional League defending champions progress to the lucrative group stage of the competition.
Enyimba are the only Nigerian side to have won the CAF champions league with back-to-back victories in 2003 and 2004.
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