{"id":16531,"date":"2026-11-13T05:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/afcon-2027q-were-here-to-compete-tanzania-coach-gamondi-declares-ahead-super-eagles-showdown\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T05:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:46:45","slug":"afcon-2027q-were-here-to-compete-tanzania-coach-gamondi-declares-ahead-super-eagles-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/afcon-2027q-were-here-to-compete-tanzania-coach-gamondi-declares-ahead-super-eagles-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2027Q: \u2018We\u2019re Here To Compete\u2019 \u2013 Tanzania Coach Gamondi Declares Ahead Super Eagles Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania head coach Miguel Gamondi has assured that his side are ready for a tough contest against Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles ahead of their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday-three encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The Taifa Stars head into the fixture as underdogs, having failed to record a single victory in their previous 11 meetings with the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria defeated Tanzania 2-1 in their most recent encounter, a group-stage clash at the 2025 AFCON finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/gamondi-super-eagles-are-the-strongest-team-at-afcon-2025\/\">Gamondi: Super Eagles Are The Strongest Team At AFCON 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The East Africans have also struggled in the ongoing qualifying campaign, picking up just one point from their opening two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria boast a squad packed with quality players featuring for some of the top clubs and leagues across the world.<\/p>\n<h3>Gamondi Declares Tanzania Ready For Super Eagles<\/h3>\n<p>Despite acknowledging the significant difference in quality between both sides, Gamondi insists Tanzania will not be intimidated and are prepared to give Nigeria a stern test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gap between Nigeria and Tanzania is very big and we respect them, but we are here to give a battle and compete,\u201d Gamondi told journalists during a press conference in Uyo on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania head coach Miguel Gamondi has assured that his side are ready for a tough contest against Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles ahead of their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday-three&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}