Pinnick banks on Eaglets, Dream Team IV for AFCON 2017

For Nigeria to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, the
current squad of the Super Eagles must give way for younger
players that are hungry for success.
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick,
made the submission as part of the positives he took away
from the recently concluded AFCON tournament in Equatorial
Guinea where he officiated as Match Commissioner.
The 2017 Africa cup of Nations qualifiers commences in June,
and Pinnick believed the current crop of players lack the zeal
to represent Africa’s most populous nation, hence his desire
to see younger players drafted in.
“If you look at most teams today, the players are between the
ages of 17 and 22, because these are players that are hungry
and they are the players for the future and this is what we
lack in the Super Eagles.
“There is no hunger in this current Super Eagles team and we
are going to sit together and highlight these issues with the
technical department, and they will analyse it and see if it is
okay for us to implement.
“We also have to organize technical study groups and so on
and this are some of the plans we have for the team.”
Pinnick slammed the current Super Eagles as lacking the
‘zeal’ and ‘national morale’ to represent Nigeria.