AFCON 2015: Nations Cup boring without Eagles – Siasia

The Chief Coach of the U-23 Eagles, Samson Siasia, has
lamented the absence of the Super Eagles at the ongoing
Equatorial Guinea 2015 Africa Nations Cup has made the
tournament boring to him and many other Nigerians.
Answering questions from Daily Sun sports when he stormed
the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the
World Cup Coach, maintained that the absence of the Super
Eagles killed the interest of many Nigerians in the tournament,
noting that many Nigerians don’t even know that AFCON had
resumed.
“Honestly, I feel that there is no Nations Cup in the first place.
It is even obvious because most Nigerians are not even
watching it. The absence of the Super Eagles has killed the
interest of many Nigerians from the tournament.
“Honestly, it has been boring without the Super Eagles
participating,” he lamented.
The former Super Eagles chief coach also spoke on the
traveling arrangements for the Dream Team’s forthcoming
training tour to Tunisia, saying: “We are going to leave the
country on Thursday to Tunisia for the double-header match
on January 24 and 28. We will return to Nigeria on January 29
and hope we can get sponsor or if the National Sports
Commission will sponsor us to Turkey to play more quality
friendly games ahead of the qualifier game against Gabon.”
On the possibility of dividing his team for the Tunisia friendly
and the Super Six in Abuja, Siasia said: “We are seriously
working on dividing the team into two to help us participate in
both. We want to make sure that the right players are in the
right position.”
“We will make sure that we disabuse from the minds of the
players the issue of superior or inferior into the division of the
players. They all know that we have not gotten the regular
first team players and they all know that we are still working
on how to build a team,” he noted.
While siting late resumption of camping as one of the biggest
challenges facing him, the Nigeria former international
however noted that he does not want to dwell on negatives,
stressing that he is rather concentrate on things that will
make the team move forward.
“I don’t really want to talk about challenges now. What would
have been the challenge was the late resumption of our
camping. We did not just come back on time but now that we
are back, I don’t want to talk about negative things. We are
going to do the best we can to make the team better,” he
quipped.