NIGERIANS ARE TOO EMOTIONAL AND OVERESTIMATE THEMSELVES – GERMAN COACH
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Legendary German coach Otto Pfister has been around since the ’70s, he
has coached Rwanda, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Zaire, Ghana, Togo and
Cameroon national teams, so it’s right to call him an African Football
expert.
Pfister has opined that Nigeria can spring a surprise at the 2018
World Cup in Russia, but they consistently overestimate their chances
of success.
The Super Eagles have reached the last sixteen three times in previous
tournaments but failed to progress to the last eight after coming
close in USA 1994 and Brazil 2014, losing to Italy and France
respectively.
”Nigeria also has a chance to surprise some people but they aren’t
calm, they are too emotional and they overestimate themselves,”
Pfister told Deutsche Welle’s Kick Off.
”They think they will win the World Cup, but they’re too hot-blooded
for that.”
No African team has managed to qualify for the last four of the World
Cup; Cameroon (1990), Senegal (2002) and Ghana (2010) were very close
but got eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, Tunisia and Morocco are Africa’s five
representatives in Russia 2018.
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