Over-confidence ruined Flying Eagles’ AYC quest —Etoroma

By Maduabuchi Kalu on July 27, 2016

More reactions are still trailing the ouster of the Flying Eagles from next year’s African Youth Championship, which Zambia will be hosting. It is recalled that Nigerians were on Saturday heart broken when the Coach Emmanuel Amuneke tutored side succumbed to 3-4 defeat at the Teslim Balogun Stadium and since then, Nigerians have been ruining the ouster of the team.

The latest reaction is coming from a former member of the Delta State Sports Commission, Hon Ejiro Etoroma, who blamed over-confidence for the team’s defeat on Saturday. Etoroma who described the Flying Eagles’ defeat as sad and unfortunate said he believed the team had thought that since they defeated the Sudanese in Khartoum, the return leg was going to be an easy task forgetting that football is full of surprises.

“I must tell you that the Flying Eagles’ lost on Saturday is so sad and unfortunate to say the least,” Etorma began.

“Nobody saw this coming more so, when the team had won the first leg in Khartoum. I personally felt so bad because I had already seen the team in Zambia next year but that is not going to happen.

“As for me, I believe that both the players and the technical crew have learnt from this, particularly the players because they are the main actors on the field. No matter how good a coach is, he cannot step into the pitch to play for his team unless he is coach player.

“My take, however, is that it was over-confidence that killed us on Saturday. I believe that Flying Eagles underrated the Sudanese having beaten them in the first leg and they thought that having achieved victory in Sudan the return leg would be a foregone conclusion.

“Despite the loss, I believe that both the players and the technical crew have learnt some lessons from it though in a hard way,” Etoroma said.

When informed that the team had threatened to down tool over none payment of their four months arrears of bonuses and allowances, the experienced sports administrator was shocked and asked whether the country is cursed in football administration. He, however, does not see that as the main reason Flying Eagles lost the crucial game at home.

“Talking of none payment of bonuses and allowances, are we cursed in football administration in this country? When are we going to learn? Well, this has become a recurrent decimal in our football and I don’t know when it is going to stop.

“Having said that I don’t believe that it was a major reason Flying Eagles lost that game. I am not in any way justifying the non-payment of the bonuses and allowances to the players, far from it,” Etoroma explained.      

•Photo shows Flying Eagles.

Source Daily Sports

Posted July 27, 2016


 

You may also like...
No Talking Or Goal Celebrations As South Korea...

Funding of Eagles Foreign Coach: I have the...

Tuchel Eyeing Sule Or Kounde As Summer Addition...

Real Madrid To Battle United And Liverpool For...

Nigeria Soars On Fifa Ranking

World Cup Winner Kroos Retires From International Duty...

 

Latest News CAF awards: Ajibade, Nnadozie, Edo Queens bag nominations Lagos SWAN, PAACC Hold SWAN Day At Golfview Hotels, Ikeja Crisis looms as Eagles’ form raises AFCON, W’Cup concerns Ex-Nigerian Super Falcons player handcuffed, children assaulted as police storm Anambra Football Academy Sports NFF, teammates console Nwabali on father’s death Abia Govt hails Nigeria Olympic Committee over staging an admin course in Umuahia Libya deliver Eagles 2025 AFCON ticket Eagles battle Cheetahs for 2025 AFCON ticket Yellow Greens gear up for T20 W’Cup qualifiers Tyson tips Fury to beat Joshua Sadiq absent as 22 Eagles train in Abidjan Eagles’ striking trio hot for Cheetahs, Amavubi clashes

 

Most Read Rangers International going, going . . . (55,164 views) Amaju Pinnick: A cat with nine lives (46,308 views) Second Term: Amaju Pinnick, Other NFF Heavyweights Home to Roost •How Pinnick Broke the Jinx (44,370 views) Missing $150,000 IAAF Grant: Solomon Dalung’s Hide and Seek game (44,015 views) Sports Development: Zenith Bank on the zenith (43,948 views) Current issues in Nigerian sports: Matters arising (43,904 views) Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s solid footprints, commitment to sports development in Kano State (43,743 views) NFF Presidency: Pinnick, Maigari, Ogunjobi, Okoye in Battle for Supremacy (43,312 views) Olopade, BET9A wave of revolution in NNL (42,366 views) Commonwealth Games 2018: Shame of Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung (41,054 views) Ibrahimovic’s Man U exit: Whose decision is it? And in whose interest? (39,507 views) John Mikel Obi: Segun Odegbami’s Outrageous Call! (38,932 views)

 

Phone numbers

Tel: +234(0)8066020976
+234(0)8055068145
+234(0)7013416146
+234(0)8094272884

Email addresses

info@dailysportsng.com
support@dailysportsng.com
publisher@dailysportsng.com

Office address

No 3, Adetoun Close, Off College Road, Ogba, Ikeja Lagos.
Website: www.dailysportsng.com

Social Media