Green Charges To Build Team Around Local Players

The Nigeria Football Federation has charged chief coach of Nigeria's Olympic team Austin Eguavoen to build his team for the forthcoming eight Nations Olympic championship billed for Egypt in November around players from the home front.

Eguavoen, saw his Olympics championship qualifying programme approved by the technical committee of the Federation after over two hours of probing by the Barrister Chris Green led committee.

NFF Technical committee chairman, Chris Green, said the committee was happy that the coach had learnt from the mistakes that denied the squad a ticket for the 10th All Africa games, hence the reason the committee chatged him to build a formidable team around players from the home front.

Green, said the committee would welcome the invitation of the foreign based football players but they would not be banking on them because the tournament is not in FIFA's calendar

He added, that the Federation would persuade clubs to avail the committee the needed players, hence the reason why the NFF commissioned Coach Eguavoen to visit some of the club directors and discuss their possible release”.

The team will resume camping in Abuja on the 2nd October.