Former Tremendous Eagles’ attacking midfielder, Mutiu Adepoju, has charged gamers within the current squad to show Nigeria’s present interval of mourning into dances of pleasure on the forthcoming Africa Cup of Nations, Sports247 studies.
Adepoju (aka Headmaster) acknowledged that the Eagles’ failure to qualify for subsequent 12 months’s FIFA World Cup remains to be hurting all Nigerians, however shortly identified that there could be a comfort in the event that they win their fourth AFCON title.
The previous Capturing Stars of Ibadan icon, who performed for Compostela, Actual Madrid-B and Actual Sociedad of Spain throughout his heyday, additional identified that the Eagles should now flip their consideration absolutely on the AFCON task.
Mutiu averred, “We don’t must be brooding over one thing that has gone. We simply have to maneuver on from the setback of lacking a second straight World Cup.
“The subsequent one to give attention to now’s the AFCON, and I imagine that they might have learnt a giant lesson from what occurred within the World Cup qualifiers.”
The ex-international, who’s now La Liga Ambassador in Nigeria, famous that Eagles’ coach, Eric Chelle on Tuesday launched a provisional record of 55 invited gamers and urged them to hit the bottom operating instantly they enter the camp on December tenth in Egypt.
“I imagine once they get again to the camp, they may go all out in order that they are going to be firing on the AFCON. It’s not going to be straightforward, as a result of different nations additionally wish to win the title.
“However, I imagine, if we put in all the things that we have now, we are able to do higher this time than we did on the final version,” Adepoju reasoned.
He concluded on a observe of optimism that the Eagles will take one step additional this day trip than they did throughout their surge to the ultimate on the earlier continental showpiece in Ivory Coast.
“On the final AFCON, we received to the ultimate however misplaced. So, this one ought to be the time to make Nigerians completely happy and assist us recover from the mourning that we’re nonetheless having for not going to the World Cup,” Adepoju rationalised.
