Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has advised current national team coach, Stephen Keshi to be wary of time while moulding his team that would confront the rest of Africa in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations holding in South Africa between January 19 and February 10, 2013.
The former Eagles gaffer believes that the only obstacles to Eagles’ quest of winning the trophy in South Africa is lack of sufficient time to camp the players for the task ahead. He also hopes that Keshi would find a way of getting over this problem ahead of the competition.
“My real fears for Nigeria’s participation for the 2013 Afcon would be according to the following questions: does the team have enough time to play together to understand themselves? We have a good team but the next thing is how well do they understand themselves and what kind of tactics are they playing? I think that would be the biggest issue,” said Siasia who missed the golden opportunity of qualifying Nigeria for the last Nations Cup.
He harped on the “lack of limited time the players could have to stay together in camp to be able to adapt and understand the tactics and formation the team handler would like the team adopt.
“If we talk of players we have good players. So if Keshi picks the ones he thinks can help him, the problem will be how are they going to play? How much time do they have to play friendly games to look at the areas and who is going to play and other things they have to take care of too. So I believe blending will a problem for the team,” Siasia said.
