Administrators FlyJ Posted July 21, 2015 Administrators Share Posted July 21, 2015 The Nigeria Football Federation has summoned the national Under-23 team coach, Samson Siasia, and Super Falcons coach, Chris Danjuma, to an emergency meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. A member of the NFF, who spoke exclusively to The PUNCH on Monday, said that the meeting had become necessary because of the results of the country’s 2016 Olympic Games qualifying matches on Saturday and Sunday. The Falcons were held to a 1-1 draw in Abuja on Saturday by Equatorial Guinea, while the U-23 team beat Congo 2-1 in Port Harcourt on Sunday. The official said, “We are not calling them to chastise them, but for everyone to sit down and analyse the situation before us. The scenario isn’t encouraging. We can’t allow the opportunity to be at the Olympics slip through our fingers. “If we all try very hard and fail then our conscience would be clear. We need the coaches to explain to us if there are challenges and how we can tackle them as quickly as possible.” The officials expected at the meeting are the federation’s President, Amaju Pinnick; the Technical Committee Chairman, Felix Anyasi-Agwu; the General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi; and a member of the Technical Committee, Paul Bassey. Meanwhile, Siasia has explained that his team lost concentration at a crucial moment in Sunday’s game, which gave the Congolese the chance to score their only goal in the encounter. Nigeria had taken the lead with two second-half goals from Shooting Stars striker Junior Ajayi, but a defensive blunder gave their opponents a chance to pull one back. A 67th minute counter-attack from Congo forced Nigeria goalkeeper Daniel Emmanuel to make a save, but it created an opportunity for the visitors to score through Nkounkou Miose. “We got carried away (after scoring two goals) instead of concentrating on the match. These are the areas we are going to focus on (before the second leg). This team is still young. We have a lot of things to put in place. There is a lot of work to do before the second leg in Congo, but I’m comfortable with the result,” Siasia told reporters after the match. “We did not disappoint. We scored two goals, we won. We should celebrate this victory even though we did not score enough goals. Congo will come all out all guns blazing against us in the second leg fixture, because they need to win the match.” Both sides will meet for the second leg fixture in Brazzaville on August 1. Source 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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