Sports Osimhen Was Selected On Merit; Samson Siasia Declares

Nigeria's U-23 national team coach, Samson Siasia has insisted that Victor Osihmen was selected on merit and not on sentiment.

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The youngster scored 10 goals at the recently concluded FIFA U17 world cup in Chile to emerge the highest goal scorer for the tournament and also set another goal scoring record for the cadet championship.

Coach Siasia made this disclosure at the official press conference organized by CAF in Mbour, while addressing the sporting press.

According to Coach Siasia "the young man (Victor) did not replace any body or made this team on emotions, he earned his place as he showed maturity in training, besides, don't forget he scored ten goals in Chile, and you don't score such amount of goals in such a competition in error, I brought him here to show the world that what he did in Chile is no fluke"

On the chances of the Dream Team picking one of the tickets to the Rio Olympics, CoachSiasia had this to say "we were the last team to arrive Senegal and by extension we will be the last team to leave Senegal, for me my target is to play 5 matches here in Senegal, and with the team I have on ground here in Senegal, that target of mine is achievable"

He U-23 gaffer disclosed that because we didn't qualify for the last Olympic Games in London, he doesn't have any excuse not to qualify for Rio, but for him his major target is to win an Olympic gold medal as he has already won a silver medal in the Olympics in the past. Africanfootball
 
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