They will arrive with blaring trumpets and pounding drums and just like in the Battle of Jericho where sound crumbled walls, they will hope to provide the ultimate soundtrack to the game off the field as Nigeria soars past Ethiopia.
To do this Nigeria will have cancel out the game plan of Coach Sewnet Bishaw who supersport’s Sunday Oliseh calls one of Africa’s best if not the best coach on the continent.
And he may have a point as the wiry East African is no flash in the pan and though his coming out party was in 2013, he has actually posted a myriad of successes long before then. For starters he won the CECAFA Cup during his first spell as manager in 2005.
Up Supa Fans © Getty Images Incomprehensibly he was let go just a year later but managed to resuscitate the Antelopes just two years after being called back in 2011 after the underachiever Tom Saintfiet quit.
Sewnet is a Sports and Physical Education Teacher by training and if you are true fan of Nigerian Football, you must see the parallels between him and the late great Yemi Tella. Both were not just superb tacticians but even better, true and ordained leaders of men.
The Ethiopian coach has had his team under the sweltering Addis sun for the last two weeks where they have been forged hopefully into a respectable fighting force. They eat four times a day as if they are supermen, and their frame of mind is set on victory. One thing is clear if they fail in their mission it won’t be because of their coach. He is a true fighter.
The Ethiopia Nigeria game kicks-off at 2.30 PM Nigerian time and can be seen LIVE here on SuperSport. Channel 9.
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