The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has hailed the Super Eagles for properly conducting themselves for inspection ahead of the kick-off of the 2014 African Nations Championship.
CAF’s General Coordinator for the Cape Town zone and former Ghanaian international, Anthony Baffoe who was in the company of famed retired Mauritius referee, Lee Kim Chong, Lesotho’s Baba Malephane, Cameroon’s Abel Mbengue, who is in charge of security and other CAF top notch gave the commendation when he inspected the team at its Garden Court De Waal abode in Cape Town.
“We hardly see teams from Africa and for African tournaments very organised with everything in place as we have seen of Nigeria, we must commend you and especially the Nigeria Football Federation for this wonderful attitude and we urge other countries to borrow a leaf from the way Nigeria do their things”, he said.
The hall consisting of players and officials of the Super Eagles responded with a thunderous applause, with Team Administrator, Dayo Enebi Achor promising to relate the news to the NFF and assuring that it will be sustained.
The 2014 CHAN kicks off on Saturday.