Newly appointed coach of the Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets Garba Manu is very optimistic of reaching the next U17 African Cup of Nations despite starting the preparation late.
Manu was appointed as the coach of the team last week and he has invited 51 players for the camping exercise that will commence on Wednesday.
While speaking ahead of the resumption, the 2013 World champion said is confident of taking the team to AFCON.
” Despite the short period to the WAFU tournament, I’m very optimistic that we will raise a good team that will qualify for the AFCON because that is our primary assignment for now.
” We have short time to scout for players, they might not be the players that will play all through the AFCON and the World Cup.
As we play friendly matches, there is likelihood that we might see better players than we have in camp, we tell such players to go for their MRI Scan and fight for places.
I’ve done that several times with the likes of Taiwo Awoniyi and co, who were not part of the screening and look what Taiwo is now playing for the one of EPL club, Nottingham Forest”, he told Totori news outlet.
Nigeria won the last edition of WAFU B tournament in Ghana but failed to reach AFCON losing to Burkina Faso at the quarter final.
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