Nations Cup 2013:
Nigeria coach Keshi
targets title double

Stephen Keshi is targeting
becoming only the second man to
win the Africa Cup of Nations as a
player and coach.
The only previous coach to achieve
the feat is Egyptian Mahmoud El
Gohary, who won the title in 1959
as a player and in 1998 as
Pharaohs boss.
Keshi captained Nigeria to the title
in 1994 and steered them to the
semi-finals in South Africa with a
2-1 victory over favourites Ivory
Coast.
"Records are there to be broken,"
the Nigeria coach told BBC Sport.
"It will be a great achievement.
[But] I prefer to take it one game
at a time, because no one gave us
a chance to be here in the first
place.
"Every professional wants to have
his name written in gold and I
would love that, but we must work
hard at every step to achieve that.
"My players are playing for the
country, not Stephen Keshi, but if
they go one step [further] by
fulfilling that record, then I will be
very happy to be in such an
exclusive club."
Famed for steering Togo to the
2006 World Cup for the first time in
their history, Keshi played in five
Nations Cup tournaments with the
Super Eagles and is now appearing
at the tournament for the third
time as a coach.
On Wednesday, he comes up
against a Mali team containing a
number of the players he coached
at the 2010 finals, when he was
Eagles boss.
"Things didn't work out in 2010, but
that's all in the past now," he said.
"[Mali] have turned things around
and finished in third place last time
out, but this is big for Nigeria and
Mali.
"I don't have anything like
revenge in mind, that's for little
minds. I'm here as coach of Nigeria
and a citizen of my country.
"What is important is to put out a
great team that will create history
for Nigeria. The fans are happy
again but we need to go two steps
further."
The game in Durban marks
Nigeria's fifth semi-final in seven
Nations Cup appearances, with their
last coming at the 2010
tournament in Angola.
They meet an Eagles side who are
hungry for success, having never
won a Nations Cup title.
Let wait and see