{"id":445438,"date":"2011-06-22T06:01:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/22\/nigeria-u23-coach-eguavoen-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-ghana\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T06:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:01:49","slug":"nigeria-u23-coach-eguavoen-declares-war-on-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/nigeria-u23-coach-eguavoen-declares-war-on-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria U23 Coach Eguavoen Declares \u2018war\u2019 On Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"67\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-32309\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/nigeria-u23-coach-eguavoen-declares-war-on-ghana\/austin-eguavoen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32309\" title=\"Austin Eguavoen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Austin-Eguavoen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria Under-23 Austin Eguavoen wants big win against Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Nigeria Under-23 coach Austin Eguavoen has said he bore no pressure ahead of the 2011 All Africa Games qualifier against Ghana, boasting that the Nigerian team have enough fire power to silence their opponents in Benin this weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Lagos yesterday, Eguavoen quipped, \u201cI and my entire team are not under any form of pressure,\u201dadding, however, \u201cyou should know that any time Nigeria and Ghana have a match in any category, there is always tension on both sides. It is mutual. The Ghanians too are always uncomfortable when they face Nigeria. But we remain confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eguavoen said the Olympic team was equal to the task \u201cWe have a lot of good players and we cannot be intimidated by by team,\u201d the coach said.<\/p>\n<p>He promised to maintain the team he has been winning matches with but added that there will be a few new faces just to reinforce the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to introduce many new faces but players like Odion Ighalo will be coming in, Nosa Igiebor will be coming in. But if they don\u2019t come we still have other strong players that can play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eguavoen denied that Ahmed Musa would not be part of the Ghana match. \u201cThat is not true,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cAhmed Musa will play. I know there is the fear of burning out. We will not allow that happen because, we won\u2019t put pressure on him to play for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Vanguard<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/nigeria-u23-coach-eguavoen-declares-war-on-ghana\/\" title=\"Nigeria U23 Coach Eguavoen Declares \u2018war\u2019 On Ghana\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria U23 Coach Eguavoen Declares \u2018war\u2019 On Ghana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria Under-23 Austin Eguavoen wants big win against Ghana Nigeria Under-23 coach Austin Eguavoen has said he bore no pressure ahead of the 2011 All Africa Games qualifier against Ghana, boasting that the Nigerian team have enough fire power to silence their opponents in Benin this weekend. Speaking in Lagos yesterday, Eguavoen quipped, \u201cI and my entire team are not under any form of pressure,\u201dadding, however, \u201cyou should know that any time Nigeria and Ghana have a match in any category, there is always tension on both sides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":445439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria U23 Coach Eguavoen Declares \u2018war\u2019 On Ghana - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/nigeria-u23-coach-eguavoen-declares-war-on-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria U23 Coach Eguavoen Declares \u2018war\u2019 On Ghana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigeria Under-23 Austin Eguavoen wants big win against Ghana Nigeria Under-23 coach Austin Eguavoen has said he bore no pressure ahead of the 2011 All Africa Games qualifier against Ghana, boasting that the Nigerian team have enough fire power to silence their opponents in Benin this weekend. 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