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Eguavoen Admits Tough AFCON Selection Job For Super Eagles

Interim head coach of the Super Eagles Austin Eguavoen has admitted that it was a tough job of coming up with the final list of players for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.

Eguavoen who will be in charge of the three time African champions to Cameroon before returning to his position as the Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation following the appointment of Jose Peseiro as the new chief coach of the team spoke tersely to the Nigeria Football Federation TV.

“It was tough coming up with the final list and since I got the news (of taking Eagles to Cameroon) I would say I don’t sleep well because of expectations.

“(But) I know not everybody wants us to succeed because they are in doubt but we will do everything humanly possible to put a smile on the faces of Nigerians,” Eguavoen who was in charge of the team at the 2008 AFCON in Ghana stated.

“It’s not a one-man show. We take brainstorm on ideas but I make the final decisions,” Cerezo, as he is affectionately called responded on his relationship with his assistant coaches.

The Eagles interim coach has named the 28 players to prosecute the Nations Cup campaign albeit alterations to the final list could be made before the December 31 deadline.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.