FIBA Women Basketball World Cup: Hunger for glory can propel DTigress

The DTigress forward, Cecilia Okoye has said the Nigerian team needs to be well prepared and hungry for glory at the FIBA Women Basketball World Cup in Tenerife, Spain from September 22 to 30.The Nigerian team is drawn in Group B alongside Argentina, Australia and Turkeycountries that are better ranked than Nigeria. However, Okoye believes that the teams target which is the same as every country should propel Nigeria to shock the world.We will need to be well prepared and be hungry for the gold. The target of course will be the same as every country competing to win the World Cup and I hope we can shock the world if we get our acts together.While stating that it will be difficult to rate the DTigress opponent at the moment, she, however, admitted that it would not be easy to come out tops in the group but expressed optimism in the teams ability to qualify from the group.The 2017 Afrobasket winner told NationSport that she is preparing for the World Cup by making sure she gets the right preparation, push herself to be better everyday, changing the way she eats and what she eats.The post FIBA Women Basketball World Cup: Hunger for glory can propel DTigress appeared first on The Nation Nigeria.
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