Former African Footballer of The Yr, Victor Nosa Ikpeba has come out with a stern declaration that the present Nigerian nationwide group wants two nice goalkeepers and stiffer competitors for shirts in all positions of the squad.
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Sports247 studies that Ikpeba gave the decision whereas offering a overview of the Tremendous Eagles’ type on the current Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, the place they positioned third for the ninth time in historical past.
‘The Prince of Monaco’ gave kudos to the group’s coach, Eric Sekou Chelle, for making the squad tactically higher than they had been throughout the World Cup qualifiers, however famous that he didn’t crack Morocco’s technical depths within the semi-final.
Ikpeba, who performed for AS Monaco of France and Borussia Dortmund of Germany on the top of his profession, added: “Let’s give credit score to the supervisor. He had sufficient time to coach the boys and work together with them.
“He had extra coaching classes to tweak the group and be certain that they prevented what occurred throughout the World Cup qualifiers.
“They began very effectively and scored loads of targets within the competitors. It was lovely and beautiful. The one drawback was that they couldn’t deal with the problem of Morocco.
“We had been taught some tactical classes in that sport. It might have gone both means when it got here to penalty kicks, and we couldn’t get to the ultimate.”
Ikpeba, who’s now a daily analyst on a preferred cable tv channel, concluded by urging Chelle and his gamers, in addition to officers of Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) to study from the lapses seen at AFCON 2025, with the intention to do higher in subsequent outings for the nationwide group.
“We’ve learnt from that, and we should now make progress. What we now want for this group is just a little little bit of competitors within the squad; which might put all of the gamers on their toes.
“As an illustration, we’d like two nice goalkeepers for the Tremendous Eagles. We want stiff competitors between two nice keepers, as we used to have previously,” Ikpeba burdened.
