Newly appointed Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi declared yesterday, that he was not bothered by the tough task set for him by the Nigeria Football Federation.

Keshi was given the mandate to qualify Nigeria for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and also reach the quarter-finals. But he said that his major priority was to rebuild the team and reshape the mentality of the players.

“I don’t want to visualise what is going to happen in 2014.

“It is too early to tell. I want to take it match after match and every game is important. Every game is like a World Cup final for me,” he said.

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“I need to prepare the players mentally for each so will go step-by-step to try to confront our ambition towards the 2014 World Cup.”

Keshi achieved a major qualifying success when leading unfancied Togo to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

The former Eagles captain revealed that he was glad to be back in the tick of the national team.

“It is a good feeling that I am back. I am just hoping that things will go well.

“I have been here before working as an assistant to Jo Bonfrere and Amodu Shaibu.

“It is not an easy job when it comes to football. You have millions of coaches telling you, mostly after the game, which line-up you should have played.

“I will try to do to my utmost best to bring back joy to Nigerian people. There are challenges all over the place but I just have to keep my focus and see what happens.”