Everton have arrived in Tanzania ahead of their pre-season friendly with Gor Mahia on Thursday.
They travelled directly from Liverpool John Moore’s airport and touched down around 10am local time.
The players arrived at the hotel to be welcomed by a Maasai tribe
“We will train tonight and we are looking forward to the game tomorrow. But it’s mostly about fitness at this point as we’ve only been back just over a week. It will be a good exercise for us and hopefully the local fans will turn out and enjoy it.”said Leighton Banes
The squad will be taking part in several cultural experiences ahead of training at the National Stadium in the afternoon
Everton face Kenyan champions Gor Mahia on Thursday evening (5pm local time, 3pm UK)
Wayne Rooney arriving in Dar es salaam
Squad: Maarten Stekelenburg , Mateusz Hewelt ,
Chris Renshaw , Tom Davies , Phil Jagielka ,
Ashley Williams, Callum Connolly , Jonjoe Kenny , Michael Keane , Muhamed Besic ,
Leighton Baines , Morgan Schneiderlin , James McCarthy, Davy Klaassen , Gareth Barry , Idrissa Gana Gueye , Joe Williams, Kieran Dowell , Kevin Mirallas, Wayne Rooney, Aaron Lennon , Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Ademola Lookman ,
Matthew Pennington , Yannick Bolasie .
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