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The former Super Eagles striker, the Brown Ideye assistant has issued another warning about Nigeria’s classification possibilities to qualify for the FIFA World Cup next year, since the open star described the remaining qualification games of the country as ‘The matches of doing or dying’.
However, Sports247 informs that this time, unlike its previous bold prediction that Nigeria will not qualify for the 2026 World Cup, IDEYA now has an opinion that all players are ready to work harder to reach the championship that will be cohosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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Ideye, who is currently in a controversial confrontation with the management of Ayimba FC of ABA, due to his accusations of bad payments during his only season with them in the Nigerian Professional Soccer League (NPFL), he also cited the delayed hiring of a substantive coach for the Eagles.
While blaming the changes in the Coaching Department and the rotation of the players as the starting point of the difficult situation of the Eagles, Idey also said that a great mistake was that everyone underestruited the opponents of the Nigeria qualification group: South Africa, Lesotho, Rwanda, Benin Republic and Zimbabwe.
The Larirucho attacker, who previously played for Bayelsa United of Yenagoa Ocean Boys FC of Brass, said: “Many things went wrong. When we reorganized the players and the reorganization coaches, we forget that the team was going to be the one to pay for it.
“When the raffle came out, everyone felt we were in the group easier for the qualifiers. For me, I feel that we underestimate some of these teams.”
While things are in the Eagles qualification group, Nigeria is fourth behind South Africa, Benin Republic and Rwanda, with Lesotho also representing a great threat in fifth place; A situation that I devised blamed the laxity by the three times African champions, while everyone else worked hard to bother them.
Ideye added: “We believe we can walk on these teams and overcome them easily. But I know that each team that plays Nigeria will come with their game A.
“They not only come to look and see us go through them. They also want to do everything to make sure they qualify for the World Cup.”
However, the former International striker, who played for Sochaux de France, Dynamo kyiv of Ukraine and West Bromwich Albion of England in the apogee of his career, concluded with the opinion that the Eagles have realized their mistake and the players will take their four games that date back to them.
Ideye presented Téntely: “While we underestimate most of these countries, they made us understand that football is not as easy as we believe it is.
“Now that our players have seen it, I think they will leave everything behind them and face these last games that are appearing or dying. They are very important for Nigeria to be in the World Cup.”
Sports247 points out that the Eagles will receive Rwanda in the resumption of the World Cup qualifiers in September, then they will play South Africa in the same month; After which they visit Lesotho and welcome Benin Republic to finish the race in October.
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