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Europe exodus threatens Siasia’s dreams

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9 years ago

August 15, 2015

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In from Nifemi Daniel …
The mass exodus of players of the U-23 Eagles is a source of concern for the team’s coach, Samson Siasia.
Speaking with www.ripples.com.ng, Siasia rued that the exodus is already having a negative impact on his team’s aspiration of winning next month’s All African Games in Congo as well as the Rio 2016 Olympic qualifying tournament billed for September in Congo.
According to Siasia, “I have thought of some players moving to Europe or other part of the world to play professional football and that was the reason I called up 31 players. There is no way you can stop a player from moving up in his football career.
“In fact I am very happy for them for getting clubs abroad who need their services. This is the only way they can be better players and also improve technically and financially. Some of them are bread winners for their families and playing abroad will help them a great deal.

“Although some of them have formed the nucleus of the team and they have jelled together. So for them not to be part of the team may be painful. But that is the job of a coach, you must find a way of replacing the ones that are not available.
“I am happy that we have a quite number of them here who can do the job very well. We only need to work hard as a team to get the desired results,” Siasia said.

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