FIFA WORLD CUP: EAGLES WILL STOP BLACK STARS – IKPEA
...Beckons on Dangote, Adenuga, Otedola, others for support
As the March date for the Fifa World Cup playoffs for African teams draw closer, stake holders in Nigeria have continued to express mixed feelings concerning chances of the Super Eagles to make it to Qatar.
That the Super Eagles of Nigeria are scheduled to lock horns with the Black Stars of Ghana for a slot in Qatar, is not news. What is news, however, is whether the Eagles would be able to stop those Black Stars from out shining them.
As much as soccer stake holders and enthusiasts are enmeshed in what seems to be a very dicey quagmire, Rev. Sam Ikpea, National Chairman of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club has said that there’s no cause for alarm.
Ikpea and his team, who just returned from Cameroon, told journalists that the current Eagles have all it takes to quench the light of Ghana Black Stars from shining at the two-legged encounter.
According to the national chairman, feelers reaching him from Ghana indicate severe jilters, not just from their supporters but from the players.
He further reiterated the fact that, although, from history, both West African teams have been rivals, the current form of the Eagles only needed to be strengthened with additional legs and technical know-how to do the damage.
However, Sam Ikpea advised that the handlers of the Super Eagles should not allow the poor performance of Black Stars at the ongoing Afcon to influence their approach to the two-legged matches.
Evenso, Ikpea stressed that judging by Eagles current form, all that Nigerian football followers need to do at this crucial stage is to lend maximum support to the team during both encounters.
At this juncture, he pleaded with some very well meaning Nigerians such as Femi Otedela, Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga amongst others, to come to the aid of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club in its quests to mobilise about 500 supporters to Ghana to achieve what he called ‘OPERATION BEAT BLACK STARS BACK TO BACK “.
‘ Super Eagles must not be intimidated at Accra’, he says with great passion.
He, however, appeals to Nigerians to put behind them the outster of Eagles from Afcon at the second round.
