Former TP Mazembe midfielder Daniel Nii Adjei - Photo Courtesy Eric Eli Adzie.
Former TP Mazembe midfielder Daniel Nii Adjei has tipped the club to recover from the jerky CAF Champions League start and do well this season.
Coach Lamine Ndiaye’s men opened the continental campaign on a shaky start - drawing goalless at home to MC Alger in the group stage. That notwithstanding, Nii Adjei believes Mazembe has always been strong and will come good in their match away to Al Hilal and the subsequent games.
“The team was very strong, we had a lot of experienced players, a lot of qualities from Zambia, Mali, Ghana, Congo and Tanzania. We had best players from all those countries, we came together to form a very good team and it wasn’t easy to come our way and get a win,” Daniel Nii Adjei told Pan-Africa Football.
“The discipline, dedication and the teamwork was very very strong and everybody was really working hard to keep the team going. Everybody was doing his part to make sure the team achieve the target that the president has set for us.
“Every season there was a target for us to achieve so everybody would prepare the mind, get ready and then we know that, in every season, you have to achieve something.
“I think they have the chance to go far in this competition although they drew with MC Alger [in the first game] but I think they can go there and do better and then the rest of the matches they can perform well.
“I know the team and I know how good they are when it comes to Africa competition, how strong they are to go forward. I think this season even though they didn’t start well but I believe that they can go forward and do something at the end, maybe reach the finals or even win the Cup.”
Nii Adjei is not a stranger in Lubumbashi, having spent five seasons with the Ravens after joining from Ghana top flight side, Asante Kotoko where he won three premier league titles and a Super Cup.
The 36-year-old won four DR Congo premier league trophies, three super cups with continental glories of one CAF Champions League, two Confederation Cups and a Super Cup.
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