Present Eagles Good For Afcon Glory - Brazilian Coach

The present crop of Eagles assembled by Coach Stephen Keshi has been adjudged capable of winning the African Cup Nation which would commence in South Africa this month by a Brazilian Coach Periera De Souza Junior Moises who arrived in Nigeria over the weekend.

The Brazilian who has handled Brazilian’s top club-sides such as Arapongas Esporte Club, a first division club in Brazil between 2011- 2012 and Head Coach at Caetano FC and Gremio Barueri FC 2008-2010 hinged his optimism on the impact of the home based players that were infused into the team disclosed this while speaking with newsmen on his arrival at the Murtala
Mohammed Airport to resume work with the Ibadan Based Frenage Soccer Academy.

Moises thumped-up the approach employed by Coach Keshi for creating room for new players to prove themselves and fight for shirts against the highly rated Nigerian professional players, likened Keshi’s style to Brazilian national team’s Coaches.

“We followed Nigerian football very well in Brazil and watched the good display of predominantly home players’ team against Catalonian side in a friendly match played recently in Spain, and that was an indication that Nigeria would be a team to beat in AFCON 2013”, he noted.

Meanwhile, the coach has also declared to hit the ground running when he resumes duty with the Ibadan soccer school who would be commencing its second phase of residential soccer training programme where players would be selected to
branch of the academy, situated in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus.
 
Akanbi Agiri