“The ambition I like to see in Nigerians” – Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro hails Nigeria’s record-making world champion

The Portuguese supervisor was left impressed by the exploits of two of the nation’s best athletes on the simply concluded World Athletics meet

Tremendous Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has showered praises on Nigerian hurdler Tobi Amusan after she received the 100m hurdles on the 2022 World Championships in Oregon.

Nigeria’s lengthy anticipate the winner’s medal on the Athletics primary meet lastly ended within the early hours of Monday when Amusan raced to victory on the occasion’s final day.

The 25-year-old beat a discipline of dominant champions, together with former world file holder Kendra Harrison, Jamaica’s Britany Anderson, and Olympic Champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, to turn out to be Africa’s first ever gold medallist within the ladies’s 100m Hurdles.

Amusan had earlier set a brand new world file of 12.12 seconds within the semifinals. The Nigerian racer equally notched an astonishing 12.06 seconds within the closing, which might have been one other world file however for the surplus wind.

On the Wanda Diamond League in Zurich final 12 months, Amusan introduced her arrival within the huge leagues when she grew to become the primary ever Nigerian and African hurdler to win the Diamond League trophy.

Additionally, on the World Championships in Oregon, compatriot Ese Brume grabbed a silver within the lengthy leap with a leap of seven.02meters.

Peseiro’s praises

Impressed by their feats, Portuguese tactician and handler of the Nigerian nationwide soccer staff Jose Peseiro has celebrated the 2 Nigerian monitor and discipline queens.

Peseiro famous that the motivation behind Amusan and Brume’s exploits is what he appreciates about Nigerians.

The previous Sporting Lisbon supervisor wrote on Twitter: “Tobi Amusan set a world file and received the gold medal, whereas Ese Brume received the silver medal and each introduced house two medals for Nigeria from the World Athletics Championship.

“That is the ambition I prefer to see in Nigerians! Congratulations to Staff Nigeria.”

Tobi Amusan set a world file and received the gold medal, whereas Ese Brume received the silver medal and each introduced house two medals for Nigeria from the World Athletics Championship.

That is the ambition I prefer to see in Nigerians! Congratulations to Staff Nigeria! ?? ?? ?? pic.twitter.com/5zPVc9RisF

— Jose Peseiro (@JosePeseiro) July 25, 2022

Thumbs as much as Oshoala and the Falcons

In the same vein, Jose Peseiro congratulated Tremendous Falcons and Barcelona striker Asisat Oshoala after she was named the 2022 Africa Ladies Participant of the 12 months.

Oshoala claimed the award for the fifth time, changing into the primary girl to take action, outgunning compatriot and Nigerian nice Perpetua Nkwocha, who has 4.

Oshoala was unavailable because of damage because the Falcons fell within the semifinals of the 2022 Ladies Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.

Peseiro, nevertheless, applauded the nine-time WAFCON champions for qualifying for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup.

“With onerous work and persistence, we will reap the rewards,” the tactician wrote on Twitter.

“Congratulations to Asisat Oshoala for profitable her fifth CAF Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months award and to the Nigerian nationwide staff for reaching their ninth consecutive World Cup!

“The entire nation is happy with all of you.”

With onerous work and persistence, we will reap the rewards.
Congratulations to Asisat Oshoala for profitable her fifth CAF Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months award and to the Nigerian nationwide staff for reaching their ninth consecutive World Cup!
The entire nation is happy with all of you!??? pic.twitter.com/MrFvM9MdJd

— Jose Peseiro (@JosePeseiro) July 22, 2022

Jose Peseiro was solely appointed head coach of the Tremendous Eagles after the three-time African champions didn’t qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

He has, nevertheless, been mandated to guide the Eagles to make it to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.