Dream Team coach Siasia delighted with Rio ticket
Nigeria Under-23 coach Samson Siasia is happy his side has earned a place at next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The Dream Team are currently competing in the Africa Under-23 Cup of Nations where the top three sides will all book a place at the 2016 Olympics.
Nigeria guaranteed one of the places would be theirs with a 1-0 win over Senegal in the semi-finals meaning they will finish at least second at the tournament.
"I'm very happy to win against Senegal again after the Africa Cup of Nations in 1992 and achieving our objective, which was to qualify for the Olympics," Siasia told CAF Online.
"I think the gods of football were with my team today because Senegal created most of the chances but they failed to score.
"Emmanuel Daniel kept us in the match as he made some brilliant saves today. On another day, we could've been embarrassed.
"We did the best we could because we had lots of injuries heading into this match but I hope that Senegal can qualify to Rio so as to have a strong African representation in Brazil.
"Creating chances and scoring them are different so I'm not concern that we allowed Senegal to have the best chances of the match," he added.
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