The Super Eagles of Nigeria, Tuesday in Garoua, Cameroun defeated favorites Egypt 1-0 in the AFCON Group D opening match.
The victory was made sweeter as it was an interim indigenous coach, Augustine Eguavoen, who led the team to victory against all expectations.
A sweet 34th-minute belter, intelligently struck by Kelechi Iheanacho and off a brilliant-headed pass by Taiwo Awoniyi, earned Nigeria a first-ever opening match win over Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations as Cameroon’s northern town of Garoua dazzled in green and white on Tuesday night.
Former U17 World Cup winner Iheanacho ran hard at the North Africans’ defense a number of times in a pulsating first half clearly dominated by the three-time African champions at the Stade Roumdé Adjia. But it was the diminutive winger Moses Simon, who plays his club football in France, that threw the Egyptians’ rear into jeopardy several times with his dancing, taunting, and inexhaustible bag f tricks, and it was his penetrating pull-out from the left that resulted in the game’s only goal.
The Eagles played with gusto, zest, immense confidence, and go-go spirit (not seen for such a long time), and with Olaoluwa Aina and Zaidu Sanusi firm at both wing-backs, Kenneth Omeruo and William Ekong surefooted in the central defense, Wilfred Ndidi, and Joe Aribo disciplined and focused in the middle, the Pharaohs were literally at sea.
A swift press statement released by Nigeria and Africa’s leading properties company, Adron Homes and Properties, describes the victory of the Super Eagles as a vindication of the resilience, resourcefulness, and hard work of the average Nigerian.
Aare Adetola EmmanuelKing, Group Managing Director of the company said, ” we’re happy and grateful to God for this victory against Egypt.
” We are equally happy that the team’s coach, Austin Eguavoen is the brand ambassador of Adron Homes and Properties. We’re a company that believes in creativity, resourcefulness, hard work, and unflinching commitment to our jobs. That’s what has been amplified by Austin Eguavoen.”
He went on to also congratulate Nigerians on the victory while adding that the company shall continue to contribute its fair share to the socio-economic development of Nigeria.
It would be recalled that the company recently held another edition of its annual Adron Games in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and with over 3,000 amateur and elite athletes participating in the games that was superintended by other Adron ambassadors like former track queen and former Super Eagles star Daniel Amokachi.
