Oshiomhole Adopts Olympic Eagles!

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has decided to retain the Under-23 football team in Benin City, following their superlative performance at the weekend in their Olympic qualifier match against Equatorial Guinea. The Sports Commissioner, Anita Evbuonwan, confirmed this development Monday. The team defeated the visitors 5-0.

Oshiomhole, who introduced new dance steps to football supporting at the weekend, and performed his moves each time the team scored, said it was part of the plan to rediscover true Nigeria's dominance in the game at the age group level in both the continent and the world at large. The governor also said he believes with the quality of play he saw last Saturday, the Olympic team was good enough for the gold medal at London 2012.

On his part, the coach of the team, Austin 'Cerezo' Eguavoen says his players really did enjoy the convivial atmosphere in Benin City and would be happy to stay back for future encores.

"The Comrade Governor has been wonderful, the Oba of Benin City as you all know, gave us royal blessings and the fans trooped out en mass to cheer us to victory, so what more can a team ask for? We're happy that we are remaining in the city to prepare for our next encounters and possibly play more games here," he said.

The Edo State FA Chairman, Chief Abel Ehigie, said the game against Equatorial Guinea, is to be looked at like a learning process for the new Edo FA board and he believes that with the success of the first match for the Under-23 team in the city, the next level is attracting the Super Eagles to the Ogbe Stadium.

Meanwhile, despite seeing his team score five un-replied goals against Equatorial Guinea, the chief coach of the Olympic team, Augustine Eguavoen, is not satisfied and has played Oliver Twist by asking for more from his attackers.

Yet, the ambitious coach has enough reasons to frown on the class performance of the side that made their visitors look ordinary because according to him, the numbers of missed chances during the game were almost like an abomination.

"Yes, what is so bad in scoring a dozen goals if you can. It can only end up giving a team a whole load of confidence in future encounters. My poachers have to do more and prove their title as poachers in future. When we make a chance, we need to take them. What is the essence of creating chances if you will not be taken them? Creating chances are hard nuts in the first place. So, when you create them and still squander them, I don't see the sense that makes. I'm telling them, 'guys, let's bury these chances that we give a lot of efforts to create.

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