INTER Milan will release Joel Obi to Nigeria for the final Olympic qualifiers once it qualifies for the next round of the UEFA Champions League.The Italian giants are top of the UEFA Group B with six points from three matches and host French champions Lille later Wednesday at the San Siro.'Inter gave us a condition ' Obi will be released to the team as soon as they have reached the next round of the Champions League,' a top Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) official told MTNFootball.comTwenty-year-old Obi is eligible for the U-23 championship in Morocco from November 26. He has expressed his willingness to feature for Dream Team V at the Olympics after he missed out on featuring at the recent FIFA U-20 world Cup in Colombia.It is now left for Olympic team coach Austin Eguavoen to decide whether he could take a chance on the full international midfielder by including him in his final 21-man squad.Dutch club PSV Eindhoven will not release midfielder Rabiu Ibrahim, but negotiations are still ongoing with another Dutch club VVV Venlo over the release of four of their players for the Morocco tournament.The players are Ahmed Musa, Michael Uchebo, Alex Nkume and Uche Nwofor.Officials have not ruled out an arrangement for these players to shuttle between their European base and Morocco during the qualifiers, which pitches Nigeria with the host country, Algeria and Senegal.Meanwhile,NIGERIA's Olympics team is now to finalise their preparations for the final qualifiers for London 2012 in Ghana beginning Sunday.Dream Team V coach Austin Eguavoen told reporters in Abuja after his meeting with the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) technical committee that his team has now settled for Ghana to round up its build-up for the Olympic qualifiers.A squad of 25 players is expected to make the trip to Ghana with their overseas-based counterparts joining them thereafter.Eguavoen had earlier proposed Turkey or Portugal but with the uncertainties surrounding securing entry visas into Europe for his squad at such short notice, it was now finally agreed that they should move to neighbouring Ghana to focus on the task ahead.The weather conditions in Turkey are similar to that of Morocco, where the qualifiers will be staged from November 26, officials told MTNFootball.comNigeria, historic Olympic Gold medallists in 1996, are drawn with hosts Morocco, Senegal and Algeria in the first round of the qualifying tournament.
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