High photographs of Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) have apparently given up all hope of seeing the Tremendous Eagles qualify for subsequent 12 months’s FIFA World Cup in USA, Canada and Mexico, as they’re already speaking about seeing the staff win the African title as a comfort.
Sports247 gathered that the swap of consideration in the direction of the potential of profitable the continental trophy to compensate Nigerians got here from no much less an individual than NFF secretary-general, Dr Muhammed Sanusi, who admitted that the World Cup qualifiers haven’t been easy for the Eagles.
The soccer scribe acknowledged categorically that, with Nigeria’s qualification for the 2026 Mundial repeatedly dealing with a thick cloud of uncertainty, the onus is on the Eagles to make sure they win the forthcoming Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco to make up for lacking the worldwide showpiece.
Sanusi declared: “The gamers and the coach are conscious of what’s at stake. They know that we positioned second the final trip.
“Nigerians may even hope that, with what is going on to our World Cup qualifier, they count on nothing exterior our AFCON victory, and I consider it’s doable.”
He concluded with an assurance that the NFF will do every thing inside its energy to make sure that the Eagles return from Morocco with the glittering African trophy in January.
“On our personal half, what we’re speculated to do is create the enabling setting that will permit them to succeed, and we are going to proceed to do this,” the astute soccer technocrat promised.
