Former Senegal national team coach, Henry Kasperczak thinks the Lions of Teranga can make it to the quarter finals of the 2018 World Cup as the current crop of players has what it takes to make it far in Russia.

Speaking on Tuesday, the Poland born tactician who took Senegal to the 2002 World Cup where they reached unbelievable round of sixteen said,

“Senegal has a good coach, Aliou Cisse and everyone is happy with him because he has good results. He’s a good boy with his band. I may be wrong, but it feels close to his players.

Kasperczak believes that the present crop of players are good enough to make it as their predecessors did in 2002.

“Senegal is considered a good team and could reach the round of 16 . It’s a team that comes up with a fairly interesting generation of players,”he added.

“I will not name names, but from goalkeepers to attackers, Senegal is well endowed. And all the coaches of the world dream of such a team,” the former coach concluded.

Kasperczak resigned as Senegal coach in 2008 following his team’s poor performances at the Africa Cup of Nations that was held in Ghana. He played for Poland at the World Cup in 1974 and has once been in charge of other Africa teams namely Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Mali.