Nigeria stars hyped for AFCON

EXCLUSIVE: beIN's Carrie Brown chatted to Fulham FC Official's Nigeria stars Alex Iwobi and Calvin Bassey about the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations.
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[@Ibekwe2571]

Proud of you guys no place like home ❤

[@meekeverything4937]

Great to see Bassey and Nwobi

[@Ola-lg9pn]

You all are blessed. Welcome home boys😊

[@abodunrinabayomi8808]

Fantastic interview ❤❤❤

[@DavidandAngeloDNA]

Love their energy

[@Agentsnipes01]

Apart from other players from Nigeria that are not playing for Nigeria I think we do have some pretty good team to win this cup

[@kadimosenye8830]

Alex also have another Snr uncle that played in the finals in 1990 and even scored vs Algeria in the final that we lost. Emma Okocha was a super winger for the super eagles in the early 1980s and 1990s. Check Emma Okocha, Alex iwobi uncle, who is also known as the real jay jay

[@dannymumba8847]

Alex iwobi, My beloved player in the world 🌎

[@marvinbarry7568]

Nice one guys

[@angg922]

Nigeria really have a chance to win this

[@mortifydflesh]

Naija boz!! LFG!!!

[@Creees]

The guys socks are so funny. Like a kid

[@gidivibes]

Nice

[@samwilliams5247]

Reporter needs to read the room and ask Calvin Bassey questions too

[@unlockedaccount]

i was thinking this

[@adisboy2140]

Alex you weren't born when your uncle won AFCON in 1994.

[@oluwatobiogundele8812]

Football age

[@adisboy2140]

@@oluwatobiogundele8812 Which kind football age? Alex Iwobi uses his real age. This is someone who relocated to England at 3 years old. In England there's nothing like "football age".

[@ginger_breadman]

@@adisboy2140I think Oluwa has doubts about Iwobi’s Nigerian birth certificate…

[@adisboy2140]

@@ginger_breadman What he doesn't realise is that unlike typical Nigerian players, Iwobi has a well documented life. We have seen his baby pics up to when he signed for Arsenal as apprentice at the age of 9. Anyone questioning his age is just dubious.

[@ginger_breadman]

@@adisboy2140 Thank you for that clear explanation

[@CareerBusPodcast]

Strikers alone do not win tournaments. We are hopeful anyways.

[@iszyhamzat7229]

Iwobi, you weren't born when jay jay Olkocha won the afcon😊

[@dorrtay]

True! Perhaps, he had Atlanta 96 Olympics in his head when the question was asked. He was just a month old at the time.

[@sannibolade7972]

Nigeria is not among the favorite to win Afcon. But we can't rule out surprises

[@Gratefulfellow]

Good that way we would play without pressure and win it this time.

[@TayongoExplores]

​@@GratefulfellowAnd we are about to

[@Gratefulfellow]

@@TayongoExplores ikr Nigeria is bringing this cup home.

[@ugochukwumadubuko9058]

IMACHAKWA,,,,,,,,

[@osagieosarefe9685]

Nigeria problem now, is the midfield. And goalkeeper.

[@simiogunlade]

Yeah and the coach!

[@felixenemuo]

Coach and GK

[@mohacosta3595]

nigeria from president. national team. security from a z had a lot issues

[@user-um2er1pm4h]

we have fine options in midfield but the tactical choices and player picks bring it down

[@DogonChild]

Coach

[@giftevans9472]

They have no single memory of afcon, this shows you that they don’t care, it’s not a dream of their at all, it was just dat England national team didn’t work

[@belloabayomi8931]

They actually do. This is going to be Alex iwobi’s third afcon for Nigeria since 2019. He even scored in his first afcon against Cameroon in the RO16

[@josephakinrele7975]

Are they being interviewed by a robot 🤖? Cos she/it keeps asking the same question: "Wot is your fondest memory of the Coop of nationz" 😂

[@DC42087]

Bassey was born in italy😅

[@Somyjay]

But was raised as a Nigerian

[@DC42087]

@@Somyjay dont make him nigerian

[@Somyjay]

@@DC42087 he already is

[@mohacosta3595]

nigeria they are not going nowhere

[@emperorbada2532]

These boys don’t sound Nigerian to me

[@Ben2bwild]

How they sound is irrelevant. Accents reflect where you grew up. Has nothing to do with nationality or DNA

[@wisecrack4645]

Hey Chuka, when JJ won, you were not even born!!!

[@OneManArmy_Sydac]

Why do people say “When you was” and not when you were…? People seems not to care about English again lol.

[@Demman01]

Exactly, I keep saying that, it’s crazy

[@rockfroszz2469]

It's slang. It's intelligible and widely spoken that way

[@OneManArmy_Sydac]

@@rockfroszz2469 It’s Grammatically wrong and makes no sense.

[@rockfroszz2469]

@@OneManArmy_Sydac You understand him, and his audience understands him. How do you think variations of the same language come to be?

[@OneManArmy_Sydac]

@@rockfroszz2469 Talk to the hand 🫷. I indoctrinate English and I see your level of insanity has ZERO definition. Get a cure. Bye. Now chat 💬 alone.

[@sunnytalent2811]

Super eagle team is most useless team have never see in my life they can proud they playing nothing

[@steveazoribe5854]

U guys must try to always use nigeria tone during interviews meant for Nigerians to consume stop all this nose talk to us ok you re discussing AFCON meant for us .

[@krischimezieakuana4347]

Dey play😂😂 guys that were not born or raised in Nigeria and you want then to have the Nigerian accent?

[@Nexxie32]

What exactly is your problem??😂

[@user-xg9zz5xn1c]

They are British !!! Just so you know

[@chinazachristian-co2nh]

It's not just for the Nigerian audience, rest! Btw what's your problem with their accent... grow up!

[@Somyjay]

I too hate their accents I never liked urban British accents I always thought they sound Stupid and Ugly

[@steveazoribe5854]

Bunch of average players . Pls dont compare iwobi to okocha its not possible. Okocha is on a different pedestral .