President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has expressed optimism about the Country’s chances of being successful in 2025, and has provided assurance that the Federation will provide necessary support to achieve this.
Gusau who was elected to replace Amaju Pinnick in October 2022, assured the nation of more success in the coming year after an impressive 2024 which saw the Super Eagles of Nigeria clinch silver in the African Cup of Nations, while the Home Eagles also secured qualification for the African Nations Championship in February 2025.
The Super Falcons also participated in the 2024 Olympic games for the first time in 16 years.
“The era of Nigerian teams arriving at major championships just to participate is gone. Our objective now is to ensure that our teams can strongly contend for honours anywhere, and that can only be done by preparing the teams well ahead of qualifiers and competitions.
Our commitment is to see how we can cobble back that Super Eagles squad that did the nation proud at the AFCON in Cote d’Ivoire, coming within 23 minutes of lifting the trophy”, he said in an interview with Complete sports.
“If we can find a way to do that, we can be sure that the target of winning the six remaining matches in the qualifiers to gain automatic qualification to the World Cup is achievable. Getting that FIFA World Cup ticket will set the momentum for a sterling outing at the AFCON in Morocco later in the year,” Alhaji Gusau concluded.
The 60-year old also said the Country will provide the adequate facilities and resources required to achieve sustainable development and growth in all aspects.
“We are in the process of organizing more friendly games for the team, to properly blend the old and new players into a formidable squad that will conquer Africa in style. For sure, it is a very busy year for us and for world football.” he added.
The NFF is committed to working closely with the National Sports Commission to realize our goals and objectives, and also seek greater corporate support for our activities, programs and events”, he concluded.
The Home-based Eagles will be aware of their opponents later today when the draw is made ahead of the African Nations Championship in February 2025.
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