CHAN: Early Preparations Is Panacea To Failure - Salisu Yusuf

CHAN: Early Preparations Is Panacea To Failure - Salisu Yusuf

By Our Reporter

Salisu Yusuf, the coach of the Super Eagles Team B, otherwise called CHAN Eagles, has assured that the aim of the team would be not only to qualify for the 2022 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) but to go all the way to win the title. 

Salisu said that early preparations for the qualifiers would guarantee easy passage to the biannual competition meant only for players donning the colours of clubs in their respective countries. 

The 2022 edition of the tournament will be held in Algeria. It was originally scheduled to be played from July 10 to 1 August 1, 2022.

However, CAF announced on September 10, 2020 that the tournament had been rescheduled to January 2023, following the postponement of the 2020 CHAN to 2021 and the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations to 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic. 

However, the chief coach of the Nigeria team, Yusuf, has expressed the hope that the CHAN Eagles would be better, promising to start preparations early for the qualifiers in order for Nigeria to not only qualify but do well in the championship. 

“We have to start early and be ready to face our opponents in the qualifiers first,” he said when the question of how he was hoping to approach the qualifiers due to start in June. 

“We have been there before and even played to the final so we will take it from there and hope to do better than our best so far in the competition. 

“CHAN is a tough tournament and that is why we hope to start preparations early. We are already looking at a number of players and I know before then, we will have quality players that will do the nation proud,” he said. 

Yusuf led Nigeria to the final of he competition in 2018 where they lost to the host Morocco 4-0, a result that failed to go down well with Nigerians who demanded for his sack.