Are The Eagles Really Afraid To Face Messi?

Head coach of the Nigeria national team,Stephen Keshi is not worried about the prospect of masterminding an upset over Argentina at the 2014 Fifa World Cup finals in Brazil.Nigeria's Super Eagles will face the Albiceleste on June 25 at the Estádio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre in a Group F game.Argentina will be relying on the brilliance of FC Barcelona's superstar, Lionel Messi to strike a dagger into Nigerian hearts but Keshi is relishing the prospectof stopping the little magician in his tracks."Messi is probably the best footballer in the world but we cannot lose sleep abouthim because there will be 10 others on the pitch that day," Keshi told supersport.com.Nigeria will be meeting Argentina for the fourth time in the World Cup group stages following earlier encounters in 1994, 2002 and 2010.The Super Eagles lost all three previous encounters against the South Americansand Keshi is keen to end the trend."I didn't feel bad about the fact that we will play against Argentina in the group stages because even if we didn't draw them, we would have met teams like, Spain, Germany, Brazil or England."We have been drawn against Argentina. There's nothing we can do about that. We just have to get ourselves ready," he said.

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