Nigeria not afraid of facing Ghana at 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
Posted On Tuesday, 16th October 2012
Efe Ambrose (right) says the Super Eagles are not afraid of facing the Black Stars
Nigeria have insisted they are not afraid to come up against seeded teams Ghana or Ivory Coast in the first round of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
There is a big possibility that the Super Eagles could be pitched against Cote d’Ivoire or Ghana as early as the first round of next year’s Nations Cup when the draw is made on October 24 in South Africa.
However, Eagles defenders Elderson Echiejile and Efe Ambrose as well as winger Ahmed Musa expressed confidence they will hold their own against any of the seeded teams for this tournament.
“They are good teams, but we have the quality to beat. We are not scared of any of them,” Sporting Braga star Echiejile told MTNFootball.com
“At Angola 2010, we also faced defending champions Egypt in the first round and still made it to the semi-finals. So, there is no big deal about meeting Ghana or Cote d’Ivoire as early as the first round in South Africa.”
Celtic ace Ambrose said it should even be a case of other teams avoiding Nigeria and not the other way round.
“I am not afraid of facing Cote d’Ivoire or Ghana or any other team. They are both strong sides but we are a very good team as well who fear no team,” Ambrose said.
“The question should be who would like to be in the same group with Nigeria?”
CSKA Moscow winger Ahmed Musa said Nigeria have the class and drive to do well in South Africa and so cannot afford to be intimidated by any team.
“Why should I be afraid of playing against country who have players like me? We have a quality team, so any team in our group know they are in for serious trouble,” the Russia-based forward declared.
Source: MTNFootball.com
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No team is afraid to face Ghana n i dnt expect nigeria 2 b scared.football is now won on the pitch not even cape verde wil nt jst lose now.
Confident, almost bordering on cocky, comments. I hope their condident is not missed placed. If the last 4 matches against Nigeria are anything to go by (3 Ghana wins and 1 draw), Ghana is the last team they should be hoping to meet.
As for Ivory Coast, they’ve beaten Nigeria twice in their last two encounters.
Zambia wud lov it to play naija. the last game against them, we run cycles around those muppets of lagos. as we all know, ghana n zambia we are almost the same and lets hope we dnt meet Tunisia! we dnt play well against arabs
It will be better for Nigeria to meet Ghana at the group stage than at the quater or semi because we will eliminate them when they cross our path.we kicked them out at AFCON 2008 and 2010.And we will do it again if they dare!
Ghanaians black juju re foolish people hope u will meet us(zambia)in qta finalz den we will beat u people silly
Why don’t you ask your Government to sponsor Zambians with a website where you can air all your insults and idiotic comments.
This is a civil, constructive forum for people with brains to craft logical, meaningful comments.
We don’t need imbeciles like you on our site.
Ghana you are jus bitter and stil can accept that zambia has beaten you u twice. we r coming to accra and beat u again.
YOU ARE A FOOL..I DONT THINK YOU HAVE EVEN HAD WHAT TO FEED YOUR FAMILY WITH THIS MORNING BEFORE COMING HERE TO GIVE THIS COMMENT..THINK OF YOURSELF.FOOL!!!
@DR WHO u noz dat ghanaianz re afriad of nigeriaz datz y u re cryin not 2 meet dem in qta or semi final ghanaians re cowards
Memphis Depay
Ghanians have started talking already! first it was about Sudan losing 3 points….now even ur silly journals hv jumped the dillusional bandwagon of belittling the Mighty Chipolopolo. Wakeup Ghana, you are not as good as u think.
A??????? Ghana have is Big Mouth. They did the same during AfCON 2012. Only time will tell.
Nigeria are gradually picking up the pieces once again, for me they are one of the favorites for the the tourney. The 6-1 mauling of Liberia says it all, 9ja no go carry last this time around lol.
@Zambia 4eva,if u care to know,we eliminated Nigeria at the quater finals in 2008 & semi finals in 2010.We will surely whoop them when we meet again.
@sade tell caf soccer is won on the pitch. da ghana-nigeria rivalry reignites ..if nigeria wanna go far they should pray to b in our group or risk gettn knockdout quick..west africa wher soccer rules.
Dis zambia people what is wrong with them. their own is rugby that is what da southern africans are noted for but when it comes to soccer it west africa u will mention. we are the elite in the game of soccer. so zambia zumbies u better shut up and let da elite talk. i need a zumby to give me a link to zambia rugby site
Seriously, it’s ok for Nigerians to banter with us over prestige… We have this great rivalry like the Brazil-Argentina one.. But i don’t get why on earth the Zambians are crying for such attention! It’s like they want to be heard. Yes you beat us twice this year so have fun. But we will never see you as our rivals… You will never match up to Nigeria for us to consider you rivals ok? So just get that point. And learn to be decent!
true word my bro. i wonder why dis so called chipolopolo or whatever they call demselves are craving for attention. if they care to know eliminating us through penalties does not mean you are stronger than us.
If there is any team Ghana will be mindful of that will be Nigeria our Rivalry is second to non and who ever wins a derby has the bragging rights.
where was Zambia in the last world cup when Ghana was terrorizing the likes of USA Uruguay, Australia, Serbia and d rest. Germany of all teams had to struggle to beat us by a lone goal courtesy Ozil. Pls go to the bush and play with the monkies you Zamians
does not mean they are
Its because lately Zambia has been beating the $h!!!t out of you, thats why we have the bragging rights. Dutchbag!
The Zambians are attention whores. They have no lives. Why else would they be here jumping on issues that don’t concern them.
Nigerians are scared already!! Them be wan chewing stick!! With keshi as their head coach,they can never beat ghana!!! Viva the revolutioncooooo!!!
this zambian herdsmens are jux stupid.dey tink so much abt us dat dey come to our sites to read abt us instead of learning hw to wear a condom.da whole zambian nation are dieing frm HIV AIDS!
TANK GOD WE ARE NT ZAMBIANS
Lol we will thrash Zambia anyday/anytime…we are not Ghana that your team can toy with and go scot free…i can’t even remember the last time Zambia had our numbers…and there is no way i see Zambia beating Nigeria,never!!!as for Ghana…our rivalry goes way back,you have had beaten us twice…now you will meet a rejuvenated and new Nigeria with a core of new and young players, and not the old and overrated names like Yakubu and Etuhu that y’all are familiar with…we shall meet again in SA 2013
You Ghanians, shouldn’t you have a license for being so dumb and ugly?
Stop comforting yourselfs, Zambians don’t care about you whatsoever, you wont even find a single article about your stupid country on any of our sites, even if we are playing against you.
In Zambia, football is just a sport, we dont treat it like you, who behave like your whole county depends on it, we have much better things to do, you should even be ashamed coz we still beat you at will and we HAVE the NATIONS CUP and you dont.
How come we dont see any Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal or cameroon articles here if those are the big teams? its always about Zambia this Zambia that, even writing articles about personal issues about our FA president, shame on you and get a life!
We dont even know the name of your FA president, even your coach, thats how much we give a damn about your country.
Very few Zambians can come on this foolish site maintained by an uneducated Ghanian who cant even spell and those who come here are probably you same Ghanians and Nigerians parading as Zambians.
Zambians give educated comments on zambianfootball.co.zm & superspot.com via Facebook, something you people cant do coz you are afraid of showing your ugly faces and pathetic facebook profiles so you come to this stupid site which hides your pathetic lives and ugly faces.
Continue writing your love fairy tale stories about how good you are at football and how you have been winning the africa and world cups with other big teams in africa but dont bring our beatiful country or its people into this nonsense.
If someone doesnt mean anything to you, you wont even be talking about them thats why we dont talk about you so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, TELL YOUR UNEDUCATED EDITOR TO STOP WRITING ABOUT ZAMBIA.
And by the way the only time Zambians ever think about Ghana is when they are at the zoo or game park…
Zambia is taking the afcon 2013. Mark my words.
wow, what pirahnas, the idiot trolled and you guys bit hard. Guess he’s having fish for dinner, lol. @zambia dude why do you always have to do that, get a life, will ya. @ghanaba- grow up dude, it hasn’t gotten to that.
Nigeria wil easily beat Ghana….just use Liberia as a measuring line!!!
Nigeria always dominate Ghana in open play but against run Ghana get a goal!!!
but zambia, this article was about nigeria, did you even read the article? No mention of zambia anywhere, infact the first mention of zambia was in the comments by a zambian seeking attention. you guys are like the ”me too” squad, always wanting to be heard. And oh by your logic, brazil and most latin americans have nothing else to in life since they breathe eat and drink football, they sure don’t have a life, it even shows in their economy that they really don’t have a life. Total rubbish, grow ur ass up boy.
Nigeria beat Ghana at 2006 Afcon, pleas take note!