The Super Eagles face Guinea-Bissau in their final institution recreation in Garoua on Wednesday having already secured an area in the remaining 16 as winners of their phase with two victories from two outings, together with one over Mohamed Salah's Egypt.
Garoua is a quick hop from Cameroon's border with Nigeria, wherein lovers could be forgiven for already feeling constructive approximately their group's probabilities of winning a fourth Cup of Nations.
Their easy start to the tournament has been in evaluation to their tumultuous build-up which saw lengthy-serving German instruct Gernot Rohr sacked in December and Eguavoen named as caretaker.
The massively experienced Rohr, sixty eight, have been on the helm when you consider that 2016, substantially leading Nigeria to third vicinity at the 2019 AFCON in Egypt. Many inside the united states felt Rohr had overstayed his welcome.
Eguavoen, fifty six, have been operating because the Nigeria Football Federation's technical director before being requested to update Rohr and fill in at the bench until Portugal's Jose Peseiro takes over.
The meantime boss belongs to a golden generation of Nigerian gamers. He  captained the team to victory inside the 1994 Cup of Nations very last towards Zambia.
A defender, Eguavoen performed along Jay Jay Okocha, Sunday Oliseh, Finidi George, Daniel Amokachi and Emmanuel Amunike, the closing the fit-winner in 1994.
Nigeria additionally reached the closing 16 of that 12 months's World Cup and Eguavoen later led the group to a third-region end on the 2006 AFCON.
This is his 1/3 spell in price. This time it came as a surprise to many in Nigeria wherein the selection at hand him the reins was not warmly obtained.
Many felt he turned into too near the present day management of the NFF in his position as technical director.
