Eguavoen Finally Gives Up On Musa, Joel Obi

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Posted: Nov 04, 2011

Nigeria U-23s coach Austin Eguavoen has finally given up hope of featuring VVV Venlo of Holland winger Ahmed Musa and Inter Milan of Italy midfielder Joel Obi during the London 2012 Olympic Games play-offs in Morocco later this month.

Eguavoen will also prosecute the tournament without Rabiu Ibrahim of PSV Eindhoven as well as defender Alex Nkume and striker Okechukwu Uchebo both of VVV Venlo of Holland during the inaugural CAF U-23 tournament from where Africa’s representatives at the London 2012 Olympic Games will emerge.

Eguavoen returned to Nigeria on Monday after a tour of Europe where he held talks with clubs employing Dream Team V players.

The 16 players include Nurudeen Orelesi ( FC Skenderbue, Albania) Obiora Nwankwo (Parma FC, Italy) Odion Ighalo( Granada FC, Spain) Uchechi Daniel ( Sheffield Wednesday, England) Haruna Lukman ( FC Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine) Nnamdi Oduamadi (Torino, Italy).

The others are Nosa Igiebor (Hapoel Tel-Aviv, Israel) Babatunde Micheal ( Kryvbas FC, Ukraine) Suswam Terna ( Victoria Setubal, Portugal) Daniel Adejo (Reggina, Italy) Lawal Raheem ( Atletico Belareas, Spain) Ekigho Ehiosun ( Samsunpor FC, Turkey) Olaitan Otubanjo (Atletico Madrid, Spain) Stephen Nworgu ( Al-Merreikh, Sudan ) Ramon Azeez ( Almeria, Spain) Kayode Olarenwaju ( Asec Mimosa, Ivory coast).

Eguavoen has until November 16 to submit his final list of 21 for the championship where the Dream bTeam V, Senegal, Algeria and hosts Morocco will slug it out in Group A with Morocco billed to confront Nigeria in the opening match.

U-23 EAGLES LIST

Nurudeen Orelesi
Obiora Nwankwo
Odion Ighalo
Uchechi Daniel
Haruna Lukman
Nnamdi Oduamadi
Nosa Igiebor
Babatunde Micheal
Suswam Terna
Daniel Adejo
Lawal Raheem
Ekigho Ehiosun
Olaitan Otubanjo
Stephen Nworgu
Ramon Azeez
Kayode Olarenwaju

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Olaniyi

Nov 04, 2011

i believe wth dis set of will gonna come out in fly colour up nigerial. Babatunde will perform better than ahmed
Jerry

Nov 04, 2011

I pray God shuld help d team excel,am not happy joel obi n ahmed musa not deir.let him also invite ajagun,nwofor,fortune chukwudi 2009 u17 captain,stanly okoro nd sani emanuel
Joseph Peters

Nov 04, 2011

Eguavoen go! 4 goals, god Da.
Bola

Nov 04, 2011

If Nigeria did not qualify with all dis over aged players i think we are no where and Eguanvon should also be fired like is Brother.
Okoh Dennis

Nov 05, 2011

Eguavoen pls give us this ticket is the only hope.
Asipa.a

Nov 05, 2011

D inclusion of coach john obuh in d technical crew wil not be a bad idea,he has d pedigree.
Goldenstar

Nov 05, 2011

How will Nigeria football move forward when we are not read to change our ways?looking at this list of players u will found that they overaged players who may not develope to play for the national team tommorow cos by then they have past their best form which is suppose to be the criterial to play for a national team.even when we qualiful now we've not help our football cos we are only recycling the same old players,how come the under 17 winners could not develope into this olympic team? cos majority of the players have past their best form now we're having a repeat.I suppose that is the reason they took their (olympic team) training to Ghana instead of Nigeria where they have been training and getting good result or is because Ghana eliminated them from the african under 23 tournament they went to Ghana so that the Ghanian can teach them how to play good football while depriving the Nigerian fans of opportunity to meet life with the people representing them in the field of play.Nigerian, Nff,coach or whoever is responsible change ur cheating ways cos eventually u're only cheating ur self & our country.
Kinika Iwor

Nov 05, 2011

I believe with these team we go long way,God will help nigeria.
Big D

Nov 06, 2011

Nigerian soccer lovin pple wher is germany mainz attacker Anthony Ujah so he is nt a nigerian player performin well away frm home.