Dream Team VI handler Samson Siasia has expressed happiness over some of his players planning to join clubs abroad but confessed that he would miss some of them in his team for next month’s All Africa Games slated for Congo Brazzaville.
In what could be regarded as mix feelings a very blunt Siasia told SportingLife exclusively in Abuja that as a coach and a father he would be very happy if some of his players eventually sign the dotted lines with notable clubs outside the country but as a human being he would miss them in his team since they have already formed a formidable part of the team.
The Coach popularly called The World Cup Coach since 2005 when he led the Flying Eagles to the final of the FIFA U- 20 World Cup in Holland said that he won’t shy away from his responsibilities as a Head Coach and he confessed that he has started looking for options as regards other players that can fill the vacuum of any player that fails to report to camp for the final phase of camping for September’s All Africa Games.
“I have thought of some players moving to Europe or other part of the world to play professional football and that was the reason why I called up 31 players. There is no way you can stop a player from moving up in his football career. In fact I am very happy for them for getting clubs abroad who need their services. This is the only way they can be better players and also improve technically and financially. Some of them are bread winners for their families and playing abroad will help them a great deal.
“Although some of them have formed the nucleus of the team and they have jelled together. So for them not to be part of the team may be painful. But that is the job of a coach you must find a way of replacing the ones that are not available. I am happy that we have a quite number of them here who can do the job very well. We only need to work hard as a team to get the desired results”, Siasia told SportingLife.
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