U23 Olympic Eagles battle ready, trounces South Korea 4 - 1
Korea - The Nigerian Olympic soccer team, the Flying Eagles, in pursuit of the Olympic football gold medal, yesterday thrashed a Republic of Korea Premier League club 4-1.
The match, one of the games that coach Samson Siasia has lined up to fine-tune his armory for the Beijing Games, saw the Eagles scoring through Victor Obinna Nsofor, Bernard Okorowanta, Victor Anichebe and Solomon Okoronkwo. The victory comes just three days before the team takes the short flight into Beijing, onwards to Tianjin, where it plays in the group phase of the Games at the quadrennial showpiece.
Assessing his team’s performance after the match, Siasia saw the game was “indeed a morale booster for the team,” adding: “I am happy they won and are all looking ahead to the Olympics. We’ve had a few problems, but tell me which team has not had their own share of troubles ahead of the Olympics? We must be business-like in China in order to fulfill the expectations of scores of millions of Nigerians.”
The Olympic Eagles will fly into China at the weekend to attune with the environment ahead of their matches against the United States, Netherlands and Japan. Already, the women’s team, Falcons, is in Shenyang, the city where it will prosecute two of its three group phase matches. The girls earned their own big morale booster with a 2-2 draw with the Steel Roses of China over the weekend.
Meanwhile, NFF President, Sani Lulu Abdullahi, has reiterated the confidence the federation has in the two teams appearing in the Olympic football tournaments. He said: “We have faith in the ability of the men’s team under Samson Siasia and the women’s team under Jossy Lad.
“Our players are good enough to dig their feet into the ground against any opposition in the world, and we expect pleasant outcomes in China.”
Source: Guardian
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