Siasia eyes All Africa Games gold

Siasia, Ahead of the 2015 All Africa Games (AAG)
taking place in Congo Brazzaville next month,
Chief Coach of the national U-23 team, the
Dream Team IV, Samson Siasia says his target at
the championship is to win the gold medal of the
soccer event.
Siasia who also revealed that the team will
resume camping next week added that he was
not afraid of the group compromising Egypt,
Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast which many
analysts have described as the ‘group of death’
because he has the calibre of players to
prosecute the tournament.The match on Congo was very difficult game
because they could have scored just one goal
even in the last minute and that would have been
it, so that was what I told the players to be very
very careful and for to be in a better position we
had to score first. We had a very open chance in
the next first 10 minutes but somehow we
missed it but sometimes it happens like that.
The bottom line is that we have to qualify.”
On the issue of his players being wasteful in
front of goal, Siasia said; “ well this problem has
to be there for a while but you know that things
don’t just happen overnight. But these boys have
once scored four goals in an sway match in the
past in the first game against Gabon. Yes we
have this goal scoring problem but we will still
continue to work on them, we will not relent
because for us to win we have to score goals.”
Siasia also stated that his team is open for any
good player who has something to offer because
the team is not for friendship but pure business.The former international who recently returned
from Congo where he led his team to qualify for
the next round of the qualifiers for the 2016
Olympics told Sports Vanguard that the game in
Congo was very difficult but the team got the
desired result by playing to instruction.
“The All Africa Games is going to be a good
preparation for us because that will keep the
team in competitive mood, instead of looking for
friendly games to play. It is good for preparing to
go for Olympics and we have to improve with the
quality of games we will be playing.