Golden Eaglets coach, Manu Garba has passed a scathing assessment on the current crop of players under his tutelage.

According to him, the players he has at the moment cannot deliver for the country at the upcoming U-17 World Cup in Brazil.

He said that the UEFA/CAF tournament was a perfect ground to test the players and the three games the team played gave the technical crew to see some errors in the team.

Furthermore, he said that the loss against Senegal was avoidable having led 2-1 in the first half, before crumbling 2-4 to the same team at the end of 90mins.

He added that Senegal that defeated Nigeria had 8 players that featured at the football event of the 12th African Games in Rabat, Morocco and the same team travelled to France for another tournament before playing at the UEFA/CAF tournament in Turkey.



“The Senegalese prepared better than any other team. They had 8 players that played in the All Africa Games and they are in France for another competition before coming to Turkey.

“We were not supposed to lose the game to them but for the errors we noticed in the team.

“We went to Turkey to assess all the players that went there and to be candid those players cannot give us the desired results in the World Cup.

“Before we left, we have identified some players who if they pass the MRI tests will add value to the team.

Manu informed that the team will continue preparation with the training tour in Brazil with 30 players and everything working out fine,

The team will leave Nigeria on October 8 and will be training in Sao Paulo before making decision on the final 21 players that will represent Nigeria at the 2019 Brazil FIFA Under 17 World Cup.

https://thesportsbay.com/31533-my-players-are-not-good-manu-garba.html

Which kind of useless coaching assessment is dis? U selected d boys, U have watched dem play and U admit u saw errors in their game. As a coach shldnt u b working towards correcting d errors in their game? He's even hoping some of dem pass d MRI test becos he obviously knows dey are all overaged becos if dey were well without d age limit why worry about d MRI? D same way he won d U-17 world cup in 2013 with a bunch of ancestors majority of whom disappeared into oblivion afta d tournament.

So who do we hold responsible?
If you go to Brazil and mess up you should be sacked! Maybe Manu has platooned as a coach

So would should be blamed now Mtcheewwww .. Useless coach giving useless excuses even before the tournament
and I still don't understand what he means by if they pass MRI test

This MRI scan has proven to be a bone in the neck for our junior National team coaches/managers as they can no longer compete with our usually over aged Players... the coach is simply telling us to get ready for the team's abysmal performance that's all.

then they should organize an open trials before they leave