As the Confederation of African Football (CAF) get set to make the draws for the forthcoming African Cup of Nations tonight, Super Eagles captain, Nwankwo Kanu, has said they would be battle-ready to face any of the four seeded countries they might be drawn with in the same group.
Angola, Egypt, Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire have been seeded for the Nations Cup and there is the possibility that Nigeria could be drawn alongside any of these countries.
But Kanu said there should be no cause for alarm over the draw.
“You must beat the best teams if you have an ambition to win the Nations Cup or World Cup. There is no short cut to success. Nothing good comes easy. We’ve just qualified for the World Cup despite that we were in a tough group and it did not come on a platter of gold,” Kanu noted.
“We won’t underrate any team that have qualified for the Nations Cup. Every team participating in the Nations Cup deserve to be accorded respect and have an equal chance of winning the trophy,” he added.
The Nations Cup draws will hold tonight at The Talatona Convention Centre in Luanda, Angola. The draws were expected to attract crème de la crème of African football, including Angola head of state, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who will be the special guest.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria will today know their opponents in the group stage of the African Nations Cup as the draw for the competition holds today in the city of Luanda, Angola.
Nigeria are not one of the teams seeded for the draw, given their performance in the last three editions of the competition.
The country has been put in Pot 2. Host, Angola, defending champions, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon are the seeded teams and are in Pot 1.
The draws are expected to be witnessed by more than 300 guests, including the president of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
The competition will be held in four Angola cities of Luanda, Carbinda, Benguela and Lubango.
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