London 2012 Olympics: Eguavoen Tasks Players

National U-23 coach, Austin Eguavoen has charged the 30 invited players for the first phase of the Dream Team V camping exercise, in preparation for the upcoming CAF U-23 championship which serves as the London 2012 Olympic qualifier to count themselves privileged to have been given a nod to fight for shirts in his team.

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The former Super Eagles gaffer also urged the players to use the opportunity to do Nigeria proud. “You must count yourselves lucky and privileged to be invited to a national team of a nation that has talents in abundance. And as such, I expect you to cash in on this occasion to write your name on gold giving your best at all times in ensuring that Nigeria makes it to the London 2012 Olympics because Nigerians we all know will not accept anything less after we failed to make the All Africa Games. I want to urge you to disabuse your minds from insinuations that we already have players for this team. The truth is that there is no automatic shirt for any player in this team. Therefore you must sieze this opportunity and give us your best even at training.” added Eguavoen.
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The Former Eagles captain stressed the need for discipline explaining that he is looking for team players and not talented players. “I know everyone of you here is naturally gifted and can do exceptional things with the ball. But I am not looking at your individual talent but how you use such talent for positive team work, because in this team our philosophy is win, win and not win some”
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Coach Austin Eguavoen made the declarations while addressing players and officials while declaring open the Dream Team V camp in Ibadan. The National U-23 is preparing for the upcoming Eight Nations championship in Egypt next month.
The Dream Team begins its campaign against Morocco November 27, before taking on Senegal three days later with a final group game against Algeria December 3.
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Host Nation Egypt will face Gabon in the opening match of the tournament which ends December 10. The championship will be on a round-robin basis with the top two from each group advancing to the semi-finals
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