{"id":364,"date":"2019-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2019\/06\/04\/nigerian-badminton-team-claim-readiness-for-africa-championships\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"nigerian-badminton-team-claim-readiness-for-africa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/nigerian-badminton-team-claim-readiness-for-africa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Badminton team claim readiness for Africa Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ekpor Temple
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There is a soaring spirit in the camp of the national badminton team as they prepare for the Africa Badminton Championships which comes up from April 22 -28th\u00a0in Port Harcourt,\u00a0Rivers State.<\/p>\n

Eighteen countries already have registered for this year\u2019s\u00a0event which will see the top male and female badminton players slug it out for brilliance. The countries are: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Congo, Congo DRC, Eritrea, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast\u00a0and Kenya.<\/p>\n

Others are\u00a0Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria as the Host.<\/p>\n

Team Nigeria athletes are camped at the High Performance Center in the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State to get them fully ready for the championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been camped here for the past three weeks, and the tournament starts in the next 18 days, I think from the look of things and what the players have displayed we are rightly and equally prepared for the tournament<\/em>,<\/em>\u201d \u00a0<\/em>assistant coach of the team, George Shitta told ChinaAcheru.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

He confirmed that the team looked shaped and was indeed very optimistic of hosting and winning this year\u2019s\u00a0Africa Badminton Championship.<\/p>\n

He also revealed that most of the players that represented the country in Algeria the last time out\u00a0are still in the team and to him the composure of the players is even better now as compared to then. Nigeria finished in second place in Algeria and the coach believes they have the best team Nigeria\u00a0can produce at this point in time.

\u201cYes they are the best. Before the names were published, all the players under<\/em>went <\/em>\u00a0some tria<\/em>ls. T<\/em>hey played among themselves and the best 18 was selected from the 30 players in camp.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The captain of the side Enajoh Abah,<\/strong>\u00a0happy that the fitness level of his team mates\u00a0has improved tremendously, believes \u201ceverybody is in top form and ready for the tournament\u201d.<\/em>
Abah\u2019s dream is to see Team Nigeria as a team and then win the tournament.

\u201cThe f<\/em>irst is to play as a team so we can win the team events which is <\/em>our <\/em>priority, before the singles and double which I believe<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0we can <\/em>\u00a0win 2 gold medals<\/em>,<\/em>\u201d He told ChinaAcheru.com.<\/em><\/font><\/div>\n

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