President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, is going to attend the FIFA World Cup final draw taking place on Friday (today) in Doha, Qatar despite Super Eagles failure to qualify for the tournament.
Pinnick is a member of the FIFA Executive Council.
Nigeria failed to qualify for the World Cup on Tuesday after a goalless draw with Ghana.
The World Cup draw will be attended by 2,000 guests and will be led by Carli Lloyd, Jermaine Jenas and Samantha Johnson and assisted by the likes of Cafu (Brazil), Lothar Matthaus (Germany), Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria), Rabah Madjer (Algeria) and Tim Cahill (Australia), Adel Ahmed MalAllah (Qatar), Ali Daei (IR Iran) and Bora Milutinovic (Serbia/Mexico).
Meanwhile, 32 countries will be involved in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Twenty-nine countries are currently known and will be drawn into eight groups of four.
Two of the remaining three spots will be filled by the winners of the Intercontinental Play-offs on 13 or 14 June.
