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Start World Cup 2022 Play- offs Preparations Against Ghana Now Henry Nwosu Urges NFF

By Victor Enyinnaya on January 31, 2022

As the drag on who to appoint to lead the Super Eagles to March World Cup 2022 play-offs against the Black Stars of Ghana ranges between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, former international and youngest player that ever won Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, Henry Nwosu (MON), has appealed to the authorities to resolve whatever that is the bottle neck and come up with what will make it easier to unveil the head coach that will earnestly start preparations for the crucial game against arch rival Ghana in March.

Nwosu in an exclusive telephone conversation with Daily Sports decried what he described as dangerous foot dragging on who will head the Super Eagles team in future, especially the 2022 World Cup final play –offs against Ghana.

“It is getting too late in the day for the body concerned to finish their consultations on this issue and come up with concretes that would vividly throw up a head coach who would lead the team for the onslaught against Ghana. That present task should be one to be tackled headlong without this much delay. Since the Eagles were out of the ongoing AFCON, the best way forward would have been for the executive committee of the NFF to meet the Sport Minister, Sunday Dare to put heads together on way forward for the Super Eagles head coach fiasco,” Nwosu emphatically said.

The 1980 Nations Cup member that first won the prestigious Africa’s prime football summit added the time is now to start planning. He pointed out that with the way and manner the team was showed out of the game, which many Nigerians held upbeat view of her team going so deep in the championship also meant that a lot has to be done on the boys in order to bring them back to winning ways.

“The team has to be steadied firmly on ground to ensure the confidence with which they went into the failed AFCON tournament would be back. We saw how the boys were blaming each other after the ouster and the way forward would be for a great psychologist to be employed to take them on. Harmony and love also need to be back in the camp. Friendliness, frankness, team work, honesty amongst them as it was before the Tunisia game has to be restored firmly before the World Cup play –offs in March against Ghana. There will be no mincing words or half measures of any kind towards this Super Eagles restoration project. In short, it is like starting all over again in order to make visible head way,” he insists.

Nwosu (MON) appealed to other core stakeholders to help rally round the team, NFF and others who are working assiduously towards ensuring that Super Eagles team would come back stronger and as a compact squad too. The task no doubt is enormous but only the tough and high technical and tactical head coach would turn the team around before Ghana/Nigeria game.

“The NFF holds the ace and the earlier the body takes definite stand or decision on who heads the team for especially Nigeria /Ghana cracker, the best for us. True that our opponents, Ghana is facing almost what we are but the Federation of that West African country are making serious moves to get a new handler that would guide the Black Stars against Nigeria in March, but Nigeria is still going round the circle making only bare statements without concretes,” the Heartland FC board member recalls.

He however hoped that the likes of Odion Igalo, Victor amongst those who were prevented from honouring the Nations Cup either by injury or club would be available in the World Cup 2022 play-offs against Ghana, he said.

Source Daily Sports

Posted January 31, 2022