Rivers United FC of Port Harcourt’s squad has been rated ‘not adequate’ to win this season’s CAF Champions League, Sports247 reviews.
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That is the scathing verdict of a Lagos-based coach, Angel Ebiye Jombo, who reasoned that The Pleasure of Rivers doesn’t have sufficient high quality gamers to assist them rule Africa.
With The Backyard Metropolis outfit having misplaced away to the defending champions, Pyramids FC of Egypt and at residence with RSC Berkane of Morocco of their first two video games of the group stage, Jombo seems to have been vindicated in his verdict.
With their third group match hanging far forward on the twenty eighth of January subsequent 12 months, Jombo says he’s already apprehensive of their probabilities of scaling into the knock-out phases.
He acknowledged as a lot and extra throughout ‘Sizzling Seat’ section of Inside Naija Sports activities, a reside streaming programme on YouTube, airing at 11:45am each Friday from the studio of Sports247 Naija TV.
Jombo retorted, “If you wish to compete with the most effective groups in Africa, you could have many of the greatest gamers in your nation’s league.
“What number of gamers from Rivers United are within the Nigerian nationwide staff? When Enyimba had been African champions, we do not forget that that they had some gamers within the nationwide staff.
“These are among the issues it is advisable test. It’s important to see if the gamers in your squad are adequate to compete within the nationwide staff. However the reply for now’s none are there for Rivers United.”
The founder and head coach of United Squad Soccer Academy of Kosofe, Lagos went on with a normal swipe at a state of affairs during which golf equipment that win the Nigerian Skilled Soccer League (NPFL) find yourself promoting their greatest gamers and have to start out from scratch the next season, thereby lowering their possibilities within the CCL.
He identified, “Lots of our golf equipment are into the side of eager to promote their gamers on the finish of every season and earn a living. They don’t take into consideration the long run.
“So, after profitable the league, they unload their greatest gamers, and so they return to sq. one. That’s what occurred to Remo Stars.
“They bought off their greatest gamers with which they gained the league final season. They then rushed to recruit many new gamers, however they might not mix in time for the Champions League.
“They ended up embarrassing us at residence in opposition to Mamelodi Sundowns, and I used to be ashamed for them once I noticed the highlights. That shouldn’t occur to our champion at residence.
“It was a giant disgrace for them and for the Nigerian league as a complete,” the extremely articulate member of Lagos State Soccer Coaches Affiliation submitted.
