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Nigeria: Country and Realistic Nations Cup Expectations
NIGERIA's Super Eagles will be among the 16 teams vying for honours in the African Nations Cup, soon to be held in Angola. Not once or twice or thrice, soccer-lovers in this country are having to raise our hopes. Some are confident that the Eagles can clinch the cup for the third time in our history. Pedigree and soccer tradition, the history of the Nations Cup, is what they have as their yardsticks and do you really blame them?