Coach of the Nigeria U20 team Ladan Bosso has voiced his unhappiness at the conduct of European teams in the aspect of releasing their players to be a part of the U20 World Cup in Argentina, OGN reports.
Bosso who said he has around 11 foreign based players in his 55 man provisional list said for now he is only sure of four players beating the deadline for arrival ahead of the naming of his team for the World Cup.
He said aside the Bulgaria based duo of Tochukwu Nnadi and Michael Umeh, Victor Eletu of AC Milan and Abel Ogwuche are the two others he can say will be in the camp before the deadline for submission of the final list of 21 players.
All teams participating at the tournament have until 10th of May to name their final list of players and Bosso said he is wary of handing a spot in his final list of players to players he hasn’t worked with or not sure of their physical condition and mindset.
” Deadline is around eight day time. For now I am sure of four players, the boys from Bulgaria and Eletu as well as my boy Ogwuche. The others I hope to assess before my final list of players. It has been a frustrating experience delaying with these European teams. Their conduct is making me unhappy”, he told OGN.
” I have sent out invitations to almost 25 teams since I started building this team and only around 10 have been polite enough to discuss on having a mutual stand. People really don’t understand and I don’t pay attention to what they say. My stand still remains that I won’t take a player that I can’t vouch for his mental and physical state to a tournament. Especially if that player haven’t worked with me before”, he rounded up saying.
Mohammed Mowiz