WATCH THE VIDEO HERE The Remo Stars manager heralded the local Nigerian team to a 3-1 aggregate win over Ghana at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, sealing qualification for the 2024 edition of the CHAN tournament, which is set to kick off next year. The 44-year-old gaffer made history as the qualification ended a six-year absence of the Nigerian team from the CHAN competition. After the game, Coach Daniel was delighted with victory against the Black Stars but maintained it now time for the team to get into grit and make sure their qualification wasn’t in vain. “We are happy to have given Nigerians a good gift for this yuletide period, but we will not over-celebrate this achievement and forget the crux of the matter. We will work hard so that we can contend very well for the trophy at the finals in February,” he told NFF Media. The 2024 Total Energies CHAN tournament will be hosted by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda between February 1 and February 28, 2025, and will be the first edition to be hosted across three separate nations. Nigeria are yet to win the CHAN competition. The Super Eagles were third in the 2014 edition (hosted by South Africa, and were second in the 2018 edition, losing 4-0 to the hosts, Morocco.
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