for Nigeria as they seek to make history at the African Nations
Championship in Rwanda with a Group C header against former
champions Tunisia.
Nigeria first featured in the third edition of the biennial event in
2014 and ended the campaign in third place.
Coming off a 1-0 friendly defeat of Cote d'Ivoire on
Monday, Oliseh has assured of his team's readiness for the
tournament as he played down the categorization of the
CHAN team as a Team B.
“We’ve had some knocks, but I think everybody is ready.
Already most of them train with the so-called A team, because
as far as I’m concerned we don’t have A or B. it is still about
the same thing just that these ones ply their trade back home,”
Oliseh told the SuperSport Blitz channel.
However, Oliseh sees North African group opponents and 2011
winners Tunisia as a major threat due to the presence of first
team players which he believes is going to be a tough match.
“Tunisia have won it because their league is a solid one, it’s no
secret. They can afford to have even home-based players play
in the first national team. We built our local league, it had
a promising one in the season that just went by. It is going to
be a very competitive tournament for Nigeria.”
The Super Eagles played three build up matches with two wins
and a draw in their Pretoria camp to fine tune their preparation
for the championship that begins this weekend in Kigali.
Nigeria will open their campaign against neighbours Niger on
Monday.
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