Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs in the CAF Champions League, Rivers United and Plateau United, are in for the toughest tasks in Africa’s elite club championship this weekend.
Kwara United’s players training ahead of today’s CAF Confederation Cup clash against Morocco’s Renaissance Sportive de Berkane, at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena…yesterdayThe teams are faced with battles against former champions of a competition, which Nigeria has only won twice through Enyimba in the over 60 years of African inter-club competition.
He advised the clubs against allowing their opponents’ past to intimidate or put them under pressure, adding that the better prepared team will always triumph in every given game. “Big names do not win games. Rather, the present form of a team determines how it progresses in a competition. You never can tell if the current players in these North African teams are good enough to outplay the Nigerian teams.
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