They edged out Tunisia’s Esperance 1-0 in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, on Friday night to qualify 4-0 on aggregate.
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This time, the former African champions dropped five places to the 40th spot in the world ranking by FIFA..
Friday’s clash at the Cairo International Stadium will kick off at 4pm Egypt time (3pm Nigeria time).
Nigeria crashed to 35th place in the world, but retained fourth place spot behind Senegal, Tunisia and Morocco in Africa.
The Confédération Africaine de Football has stated that Africa is inspired by the performances of the five African National Teams…
And with the quality of players in these teams, it was expected that they would have a better outing in the tournament
The shock victory for the Africans however was not enough for them to join the defending champions in the last 16 of the tournament.
The Jose Peseiro lads got only 1478.18 points in the new ranking to retain her her fifth place on the continent.
In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele mentioned countries that include South Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Central Africa Republic, Zimbabwe, Mali, Kenya, Chad, DR Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan. He also addressed the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU).
The Randy Waldrum lads polled 1604.42 points ahead of her continental rivals in the ranking, which was released on Thursday.
The seminar cum training takes place from May 22 to 24 with the competition manager while the umpires’ training and examination will hold from May 25 to 28 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium.
The Carthage Eagles were beaten 1-0 on Saturday by a Burkina Faso side who are 30 places below the North Africans in the world rankings.
Despite their current turmoil, the Nigerians will be confident of handling a Ghanaian side reeling deeply from a disappointing group stage exit from the AFCON
Dango Ouattara scored the only goal of the game – and was later sent off – as the Stallions reached the semis for the third time in the last five AFCONs, while the Carthage Eagles struggled to gain any traction and looked a shadow of the team which shocked Nigeria’s Super Eagles earlier in the week.
This follows the Super Eagles 1-0 defeat to Tunisia in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16 clash on Sunday
A cagey opening controlled by Nigeria became tough in the 21 minutes as the Tunisian attackers put pressure on Nigeria’s defenders.
This will be the second knockout-stage encounter between the sides in three years after the Super Eagles secured a slender 1-0 victory in last edition’s third-place playoff tie in Egypt and this makes for an exciting watch.
Both former champions contest for who will soar higher as they eye a place in the quarter-finals of AFCON.
Kadri who represented Head Coach Mondher Kebaier at a pre-match press conference on Saturday in Garoua said this was in spite of the lot of respect they have for Nigeria at the tournament.
Eguavoen led the Nigerian side to an emphatic nine points in Group D, just as Nigeria were the only side that claimed maximum points to go through to the next round of the competition.