{"id":137302,"date":"2022-01-20T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=137302"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:09:30","slug":"afcon-2021-what-i-told-super-eagles-before-first-game-eguavoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/afcon-2021-what-i-told-super-eagles-before-first-game-eguavoen\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: What I told Super Eagles before first game &#8211; Eguavoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles interim coach, Augustine Eguavoen, has revealed what he told the players before their first game against the Pharaohs of Egypt in the on-going 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/afcon-2021-youre-only-entitled-to-match-bonuses-not-salary-pinnick-tells-eguavoen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eguavoen<\/a> said he told the players to express themselves and be committed as they know how passionate Nigerians are about football.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old coach, who stated this during his post-match conference that a lot of people felt that Nigeria was not good enough to win the tournament because of the team\u2019s performance in the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut again it is the same set of players who performed brilliantly well prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/afcon-2021-umar-ekong-score-as-nigeria-beat-guinea-bissau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFCON<\/a>, the last one in Egypt and also a year or couple later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden, things didn\u2019t go well as they were supposed to for some reason and that\u2019s why people were trying to write Nigeria off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first game, nobody gave us a chance but we did the job collectively,\u201d said the coach.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126349 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/28\/Eguavoen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/28\/Eguavoen.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/28\/Eguavoen-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/28\/Eguavoen-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to him, he told the players to express themselves and be committed, \u201cyou don\u2019t have any other country to play for, it\u2019s only Nigeria and you know how passionate our people are when it comes to football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, that game was gone. We had to put it behind us and then focus on the next game. Went ahead to beat Sudan and then put it behind us and then focus on the next game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, people are thinking and starting to respect Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said the team would not allow the praises get to their head, adding that they would continue to respect their opponents in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will always respect our opponents, we will play them with full strength and we will play them the way we play with anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor instance, if you see today\u2019s game and like I said before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/rohr-reveals-super-eagles-player-some-people-didnt-want-in-the-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinea-Bissau<\/a> is a very strong team. They were no pushovers at all,\u201d said Eguavoen.<\/p>\n<p>The coach added that he expected a tough game because the Guinea-Bissau team was physically and technically very strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, they gave us a run for the money, but at the end of the day we were able to get those two goals and I am very satisfied with the performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most credit must go to the players for doing everything we told them to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles interim coach, Augustine Eguavoen, has revealed what he told the players before their first game against the Pharaohs of Egypt in the on-going 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. Eguavoen said he told the players to express themselves and be committed as they know how passionate Nigerians are about football. 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