The Super Eagles have been handed a semifinal target for the 2025 AFCON by the NFF technical committee and one of its members, Victor Ikpeba, has said this is a realistic target considering the situation of the team.
“Reaching the last four of the AFCON will be a realistic target for the Super Eagles,” the 1997 CAF Player of the Year told SCORENigeria
“We’re certainly not one of the favourites to win the tournament and so we can only dream.
“African football can be humbling as we have again seen by our failure not to qualify for the World Cup.
“I can recall that Morocco were big favourites to win the 2023 AFCON after they reached the semifinal of the 2022 World Cup, but again that was not the case.”
The long-serving technical committee member continued: “We have to rebuild the Super Eagles from this AFCON and as such our targets have to be modest.
“We cannot afford to put more pressure on the team by asking them to go and win this AFCON.
“Hopefully, the team will again surprise us again, just as they did last year by going all the way to the final even when no one gave them a chance.”
Nigeria are drawn in Group C in Fes along with Tunisia, Tanzania and Uganda.
They open their campaign on December 23 against Tanzania.
