Amapakabo Reveals Nigeria Mission At Wafu

By Daily Sports on October 1, 2019

Nigeria coach Imama Amapakabo said his main objective at the 2019 Wafu Cup of Nations is to build a team for the future.

The 50-year-old tactician made the revelation after the Super Eagles suffered a 2-1 loss against Togo in their opening game at the regional tournament in Thies on Sunday.

Sikiru Alimi’s equaliser was not enough to inspire Imama Amapakabo’s men to victory over their West African rivals who defeated them 4-1 a week ago, in the first leg of the African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifiers in Lome.

In his reaction to the defeat, Amapakabo who is also the coach of the U-23 team backed his selection of players from the Olympic Eagles as the country prepares to participate at the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations in Egypt later in November.

“Everybody goes into a competition to win but I think our main objective was to set up a team that is going to do very well in the future,” Amapakabo told the media.

“We had an unusual situation in our country and we decided. This is a young team, at least kudos to them. They’ve been able to show at this level what they have the capacity to do.

“We decided to use the U-23 team that is preparing for the Olympics at this tournament. You will find out that most of them are playing at this level for the very first time.”

The former Enugu Rangers manager went on to rue the missed chances by his team in the second 45 minutes after a sloppy first-half performance.

“I think we made some bit of mistakes, we made some technical mistakes in the first-half which cost us two goals and I think in the second half, it was a far better showing we came out and created chances,” he added. (Goal)

•PHOTO: Imama Amakapabo 

 

Source Daily Sports

Posted October 1, 2019


 

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