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African teams do us proud at the Would Cup: Nigerian coach
30/6/2006 15:28

Nigerian National team coach Augustine Eguavoen described as tremendous African teams' performance at the World Cup despite making early exists from the tournament.
The visiting coach said here yesterday that African teams such as Togo, Ghana and Angola rose to the occasion and put up good performances against experienced teams.
Eguavoen urged Africa national teams to forge ahead as they have some more years to prepare adequately for the next World Cup to be hosted by South Africa.
He pointed out that lack of basic equipment and sponsorship is hindering African teams to perform better than western teams.



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