The president of Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has steered that the Tremendous Eagles can take the victory of their feminine counterparts on the Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON 2025) to spice up their confidence and defeat Morocco on Wednesday.
Sports247 reviews that Gusau took reminiscences again to July twenty sixth, 2025, when the Tremendous Falcons defeated Morocco 3-2 within the WAFCON ultimate and declared that the Eagles ought to be capable to repeat that historic feat this Wednesday in Rabat.
With Nigeria set to battle the host nation within the second semi-final of the continuing Africa Cup of Nations, many observers are apprehensive of exterior components, particularly match officers, working towards the Eagles.
These fears are buoyed by allegations of biased refereeing raised by Tanzania within the spherical of 16 and Cameroon throughout their quarter-finals conflict with The Atlas Lions, who critics consider are being aided to win the cup.
It was fifty years in the past that Morocco gained their solely AFCON title however, with the dominion nation having been a dutiful host for each continental and world competitions in latest time, hypothesis is rising that they are going to be ‘compensated’ with this yr’s trophy.
That inference has escalated forward of their conflict with Nigeria on Wednesday, a match which many analysts consider might be too powerful for Walid Regragui’s squad to surmount, primarily based on the present high type of the three-time champions.
Nonetheless, slightly than take part elevating mud forward of the 9pm kick-off in Rabat, the NFF president recalled how Nigeria’s girls’s squad, Tremendous Falcons stormed again from two targets all the way down to beat the hosts within the WAFCON 2025 ultimate.
Gusau identified that each one eyes internationally might be on this recreation, and he reiterated, “I shouldn’t have the identical fears of the match officers being biased as some folks have.
“I consider that the grass is all the time inexperienced and that the taking part in pitch is stage. I don’t see a state of affairs during which the match officers might be working towards any staff’s curiosity.”
The NFF’s supremo added that the upcoming AFCON semi-final is simply as delicate because the WAFCON ultimate, therefore his verdict that the Tremendous Eagles will get a stage taking part in discipline because the Falcons had, en path to profitable their historic tenth continental title final yr.
Gusau recalled, “Final summer season, we have been right here in Morocco, for the Girls Africa Cup of Nations, and we performed the host nation within the ultimate, even coming from two targets behind to realize victory.
“There’s nothing to worry. That is the very best stage of soccer on the African continent. The officers know that the entire world is watching, and they won’t do something untoward.”
