Siasia issues report or forget Rio order
Nigeria’s U-23 head coach, Samson Siasia has handed a Wednesday deadline to the invited foreign-based players for the Suwon Invitational tournament or forget the Rio Olympic Games.
The pre-Olympics four-nation Suwon Invitational tournament will hold between June 02-04 among the hosts, South Korea, Nigeria, Honduras and Denmark.
Siasia expressed displeasure that most of the players invited for the Suwon tournament are in the country but unwilling to report to camp.
The coach said the only way he can select players for the Olympics is when they train together as a team adding that no player will walk into his team without earning it.
“It is annoying that these boys have not placed the same importance I and other members of the technical crew have placed on the Olympics.
“I have information that aside one or two players who are involved in their team's playoff games the others have arrived in the country but just refused to report to camp.
“If they don't report to camp on time how can I work on them to know their level of adaptability to my game plan.
“It's frustrating sometimes except for Saturday Keigo who reported to camp on Sunday others have not bothered to report,” lamented the former Nigerian manager to thenff.com.
The affected foreign-based players are Amuzie Stanley, Azubuike Okechukwu, Usman Mohammed, Sodiq Popoola, Saviour Godwin, Taiwo Awoniyi and Nathan Oduwa.
The Dream Team V1 will on Thursday play a friendly game with a local club side as part of its build-up for the Suwon Invitational tournament.
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