Super Eagles’ players must have Ronaldo’s mentality – President, NFF

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick, has expressed hope that Nigeria will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

He expressed optimism on Tuesday after meeting the NFF technical committee on the choice of Frenchman Paul Le Guen as the new technical adviser for the country’s senior national team.

Goal quoted him as saying, “By God’s grace, we are going to qualify. We have worked round and have done everything possible. We have discussed with the players. There are a lot of things we have done. There is a level you can go in terms of providing everything.”

“All what they need is mental character, we have to psyche them up. You have to give them the sense of patriotism.

“If you see what Ronaldo did, he was injured and he was crying when he was being taken out of the field. That is the kind of mentality we want our players to put up when they are playing for the team.

“Like I said, the 20 teams that qualified for the last round are all capable. I would rather play Algeria than to play Gabon.

“Gabon has never been to the World Cup and the players would want to go to the World Cup. I can assure you.”