by Mark Bassey
New coach of the Super Eagles, Amodu Shaibu has urged Nigerians to be modest in their expectations of the team as they seek to qualify for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations.
Following the parting of ways with Stephen Keshi, the NFF appointed Shuaibu as a replacement on Thursday, 16 October. He was given the task of overseeing the last round of qualifying matches to the AFCON in January.
The new coach says the team would give their best to try and qualify.
Shuaibu said, “We have been given an assignment that is tough and very challenging but not one that is impossible to accomplish.We will give it our very best and see how things can be turned around. I think this situation is very similar to what we had in the qualifiers to the 2002 World Cup. We worked hard, did our bit and were fortunate to have results elsewhere also going our way.”
“There are somethings that, as humans, we cannot control just as there a lot more we can influence. I can assure everybody that we will give this assignment all we have and then hope that all other things fall in place for us.”
“Let us all be modest in our expectations so that we do not put ourselves under undue pressure. Let everybody involved in the game in Nigeria pull together in the right direction and then we see what we can achieve with the next two games as mandated by the the Nigeria Football Federation,” he added.
The Super Eagles are third in Group A of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers behind South Africa and Congo.Nigeria will need maximum points from their remaining games to be sure of their place at the biennial tournament she won in South Africa in 2013.
New coach of the Super Eagles, Amodu Shaibu has urged Nigerians to be modest in their expectations of the team as they seek to qualify for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations.
Following the parting of ways with Stephen Keshi, the NFF appointed Shuaibu as a replacement on Thursday, 16 October. He was given the task of overseeing the last round of qualifying matches to the AFCON in January.
The new coach says the team would give their best to try and qualify.
Shuaibu said, “We have been given an assignment that is tough and very challenging but not one that is impossible to accomplish.We will give it our very best and see how things can be turned around. I think this situation is very similar to what we had in the qualifiers to the 2002 World Cup. We worked hard, did our bit and were fortunate to have results elsewhere also going our way.”
“There are somethings that, as humans, we cannot control just as there a lot more we can influence. I can assure everybody that we will give this assignment all we have and then hope that all other things fall in place for us.”
“Let us all be modest in our expectations so that we do not put ourselves under undue pressure. Let everybody involved in the game in Nigeria pull together in the right direction and then we see what we can achieve with the next two games as mandated by the the Nigeria Football Federation,” he added.
The Super Eagles are third in Group A of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers behind South Africa and Congo.Nigeria will need maximum points from their remaining games to be sure of their place at the biennial tournament she won in South Africa in 2013.
Culled from ynaija.com
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