Siasia Releases 30-Man Provisional List For U23

Nigeria’s Under-23 men’s national team coach, Samson Siasia, has invited 30 players to jostle for places as he opens residential camping towards the 2016 Rio Olympic qualifiers.

Siasia Invites Five Flying Eagles Players

The coach of the Nigeria U-23 men’s football team, Samson Siasia, has called up five new players. They are from the victorious U-20 African Youth Championship team that played in Senegal. The Flying Eagles won the African cup.

Dream Team Defence Worries Siasia

Dream Team VI coach, Samson Siasia has said he still has a lot of work to do on his defense if they are to get better as a team.

The Nigerian U23 team will host the Gabon U23’s next weekend in Abuja, in a return leg of the 2015 All Africa Games qualifier, having already won 4-1 in Libreville last weekend.

But Siasia says he and his assistants are not being carried away, saying they understand they must put in more effort to improve the team, especially the defense.

“We know we still have a lot of work to do on the team especially in the defense,” Siasia said.

“We have showed very good signs in all the games we have played but we the coaches know we are not at our best yet.

“We need to improve the team as a whole, but we have to pay more attention to the defense because that is the department that I think needs more work on.”

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