Nigeria: Perufriendly - Eagles Miss Flight, Sleep At Madrid Airport

21 May 2012

Following Sunday's drug incident at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos, which forced the cancellation of the Iberia flight that the Super Eagles were boarding to Madrid enroute Lima for Wednesday's international friendly against Peru, it was double pain for the team as it missed it connecting flight from Madrid to Lima.

The team departed Lagos at about 10:30 am Nigerian time and got into Madrid at 4:30 Nigerian time, only to be told by officials of Iberia Airways that they had missed their flight to Lima, which had left earlier in the day, thus forcing the team to put up at the Madrid Airport, since they had only airport transit visas and thus could not be checked into any hotel in the city that parades European giants; Real Madrid.

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