Nigeria’s new coach, Samson Siasia, has said he will need, at least three years, to rebuild the Super Eagles into a formidable force. Siasia will take over the Eagles on December 1 on a four-year contract and with the perennial underachievers yet to win a major honour since 1994, the former international striker has admitted he had his work cut.
“It is going to take two, three years for us to assemble a formidable team,” Siasia said.
“It should be a gradual process, trying to build a new team with the old and the new players. Gradually, we will mix them up until we find the ones who we need, actually the ones who would play the way we want them to play. That time, I would come out and say publicly we have a team.
“But right now, we just want to focus on how to rebuild the team. Yes, the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) could set targets, but if we want to be realistic, targets won’t be realistic, if you don’t have a good team. “As a coach, we need time to build a very good team. If we are looking at where we are coming from, then we have to work on how to rebuild this team.”
Siasia would, therefore, call on the fans to be patient with him as he goes about rebuilding the national team ranked 33rd in the world. “The fans must come out in large numbers to watch us play. They must exercise patience too. What we lack here is patience. We want results immediately.
“Nigerians want to see us getting to the finals like Argentina and Germany. We cannot say because we want to build a new team, we should forget about the players who are there now in the Super Eagles. That is the team we have right now.“ The Eagles’ new handler further said he was ready for the daunting challenges ahead.
“I have been waiting for this job for almost three years now and that was before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I was to be the coach of the Super Eagles after the interview conducted for the job. But that time, I said no, I wasn’t ready. Now that I am ready, I am not intimidated at all. I am ready for this job”. he declared matter-of-factly.
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FIBA Africa Zone-3 Qualifiers: Royal Hoopers, Kano Pillars, ABC dominates
The trio of Royal Hoopers basketball club and Kano Pillars basketball club of Nigeria and Abidjan Basket Club of Cote dIvoire have continue to dominate their opponent at the 2010 FIBA Africa Champions Club for Men Zone-3 elimination holding at the SKD Sports Complex gymnasium, Monrovia, Liberia posting good results.
Royal Hoopers Nigeria DStv League runner-up who is making its debut at the biggest Africa club competition handed down a 73-61 defeat of Liberia former league champion, NPA Pythons basketball club in Day-2 of the qualifiers completing its superiority over Liberian teams having defeated Liberia reigning champion UHURU Kings on Monday by 66-55 points.
The Coach Ogoh Odaudu tutored Hoopers opened a wide margin in the first quarter with a 22-06 points win but allowed the Pythons to bite back in the second quarter losing the quarter by 16-19 points for half-time score-line of 38-25 points in favour of the Hoopers.
The Hoopers also lost the third quarter by 15-20 but rose to the challenges to earn victory in the last quarter by 20-16 points for a cumulative score-line of 73-61 points.
In the other two games of Day-2 Kano Pillars defeated Swallows of Togo by 64-50 points while ABC had the better of UHURU Kings by 59-49 points.
Action continue today as the competition enter Day-3 with Royal Hoopers taking to the floor againsy ABC at 15H00; Swallows and NPA Pythons searches for their first win at 17H00 while Kano Pillars go up against UHURU Kings at 19H00.
Royal Hoopers Nigeria DStv League runner-up who is making its debut at the biggest Africa club competition handed down a 73-61 defeat of Liberia former league champion, NPA Pythons basketball club in Day-2 of the qualifiers completing its superiority over Liberian teams having defeated Liberia reigning champion UHURU Kings on Monday by 66-55 points.
The Coach Ogoh Odaudu tutored Hoopers opened a wide margin in the first quarter with a 22-06 points win but allowed the Pythons to bite back in the second quarter losing the quarter by 16-19 points for half-time score-line of 38-25 points in favour of the Hoopers.
The Hoopers also lost the third quarter by 15-20 but rose to the challenges to earn victory in the last quarter by 20-16 points for a cumulative score-line of 73-61 points.
In the other two games of Day-2 Kano Pillars defeated Swallows of Togo by 64-50 points while ABC had the better of UHURU Kings by 59-49 points.
Action continue today as the competition enter Day-3 with Royal Hoopers taking to the floor againsy ABC at 15H00; Swallows and NPA Pythons searches for their first win at 17H00 while Kano Pillars go up against UHURU Kings at 19H00.
FIBA Africa Zone-3 Qualifiers: Kano Pillars, ABC in fine start
Defending champion of FIBA Africa Champions Club Zone-3, Kano Pillars basketball club of Nigeria Tuesday began its quest for a place in the final round of the continent biggest club competition with an 85-53 points win over NPA Pythons basketball club of Liberia.
The Nigeria DStv league champion won its opening Zone-3 elimination series against the Liberian side winning in all four quarters of 22-13; 24-15; 17-15 and 22-10.
With the big win over NPA Pythons Kano Pillars now lead other teams in the qualifiers and will take on Swallows basketball club of Togo Wednesday in Day-2 of the elimination series at the gymnasium of the SKD Sports Complex, Monrovia, Liberia at 17H00.
In the last Day-1 pairing Abidjan Basket Club of Cote dIvoire went past Swallows basketball club of Togo by 60-41.
The Abidjan-based side won the first quarter by 16-12 points but gave up the second quarter to the Togolese side who won the quarter by 14-10 points to even scores 26-26 at the end of the first half.
At the resumption of play in the third quarter, ABC showed the stuff it is made up of pilling up offense and defense on their opponent winning the third and fourth quarter by 17-10 and 17-05.
ABC will Wednesday confront Liberia champion and host of the qualifiers, UHURU Kings basketball club of Liberia at 19H00.
The first game of Day-2 will be between Liberia NPA Pythons and Nigeria Royal Hoopers at 15H00.
The Nigeria DStv league champion won its opening Zone-3 elimination series against the Liberian side winning in all four quarters of 22-13; 24-15; 17-15 and 22-10.
With the big win over NPA Pythons Kano Pillars now lead other teams in the qualifiers and will take on Swallows basketball club of Togo Wednesday in Day-2 of the elimination series at the gymnasium of the SKD Sports Complex, Monrovia, Liberia at 17H00.
In the last Day-1 pairing Abidjan Basket Club of Cote dIvoire went past Swallows basketball club of Togo by 60-41.
The Abidjan-based side won the first quarter by 16-12 points but gave up the second quarter to the Togolese side who won the quarter by 14-10 points to even scores 26-26 at the end of the first half.
At the resumption of play in the third quarter, ABC showed the stuff it is made up of pilling up offense and defense on their opponent winning the third and fourth quarter by 17-10 and 17-05.
ABC will Wednesday confront Liberia champion and host of the qualifiers, UHURU Kings basketball club of Liberia at 19H00.
The first game of Day-2 will be between Liberia NPA Pythons and Nigeria Royal Hoopers at 15H00.
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