The sides meet in a friendly on Wednesday and manager Johan Cruyff has named some of Barcelona's top players along with seven from city rivals Espanyol.

The list made available to the Nigerian delegation on arrival in Barcelona has Barcelona first choice goalkeeper Victor Valdes, Xavi Hernandez, Carlos Puyol, Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba, Martin Montoya, Sergio Roberto, Christian Tello and Marc Bartra.

From Espanyol, there will be Joan Verdi, Joan Capdevilla, Sergio Garcia, Kiko Casilas, Raul Rodriguez, Victor Sanchez, and Sergio Tejera.

Others in the team list are AC Milan’s Bojan Rkic, Getafe’s Alvaro Vazquez, Jordi Amat and Francesco Medina ‘Piti’ both of Rayo Vallecano and Red Bulls Zalburg’s Jonathan Soriaro.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi was suitably impressed.

“These are big names no doubt but our players know that names don’t play football these days, we will just go out there and give our best against them,” Keshi said.

The game will be played on Wednesday at 7pm Nigeria time at Espanyol's 40 500-capacity Estadi Cornellà-El Prat.

It was originally scheduled for 9pm.