By Obaloluwa Joshua, LAGOS
Super Eagles interim head coach Austine Eguavoen is upbeat the team will put up a good performance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon despite the short training camp before the competition.
Eguavoen only announced his squad for the competition on Christmas day and the team will begin preparations for the biennial competition in Abuja on Wednesday.
The bulk of the 28-man squad are not due in camp till next week which means they will not have enough time to prepare for the AFCON, which begins January 9.
“Yes the time (to prepare) is quite short, but with the quality of the players, we won’t struggle,” Eguavoen told NFF TV.
“We hope we could still play one or two friendlies, but if not we will try and guide them in training.”
The 56-year-old coach said expectations for the Eagles to do well are high.
“I don’t sleep well because of the high expectations even though some few people are in doubt (of what we can achieve),” he said.
“The AFCON is not a small tournament, it’s a major tournament and so expectations are high.
“But we have what it takes to go all the way and we will take it a game at a time.”
