“REDUCE YOUR EXPECTATIONS ON SUPER EAGLES” JAY JAY OKOCHA CAUTION NIGERIANS

Ex-Nigeria captain Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha has warned that followers ought to decrease their expectations on the Tremendous Eagles as a result of the workforce are rebuilding after the failure to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.

The Tremendous Eagles did not qualify for this yr’s World Cup after they misplaced out to perennial rivals Ghana in March.

That was after they crashed out within the second spherical of the delayed 2021 AFCON in Cameroon earlier this yr.

Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro has since been appointed to rebuild the workforce.

They’re presently high of Group A of the 2023 AFCON qualifiers with six factors from two matches.

“We’ve got to simply accept our destiny. We’ve got a brand new supervisor in place,” Okocha mentioned.

“It’s like a recent begin and perhaps we’ve got to cut back our expectations (on the Tremendous Eagles) for the time being and settle for the place we’re that we’ve got quite a lot of work to do and encourage them to attempt to get us there.”

Okocha was a part of the ‘Golden Technology’ of Nigeria soccer within the 90s throughout which Nigeria received the 1994 AFCON, 1996 Olympic gold and bought to the knockout rounds of the 1994 World Cup on their debut look