Who Will Buy Player In Nigerian League? – Samson Siasia Asks As He Makes More Revelations

“Your players are looking up to you and you can’t let them down, I made the boys who they are today, I put them in a platform where people can see them, if not who is going to buy a player that is playing in the Nigerian league.” He added,“The things I have done to get the players to where they are is out of the ordinary because I care about the players.

“Imagine the (then) minister saying he didn’t know where we were and claimed that I took the boys to my house.” One of the biggest scandals involving the under-23 Olympic team was ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, when the Nigerian team arrived late for the tournament.

“I am special in the area of taking care of the players compared to other coaches because I spend my money to make sure that the boys are okay,”Samson Siasia said while speaking on a podcast alongside ex-international Emmanuel Babayaro and journalist Matthew Edafe.

The coach said,“As regards the plane issue, we were supposed to arrive a week before the Olympics but there was no money and a Nigerian, Yemi Idowu, chartered a plane for us.

Samson Siasia has been coaching Nigeria’s national teams in international competitions since 2005, when he led the under-20 team, which includedJohn Obi Mikeland Taiye Taiwo, to win silver at the 2005 Under-20 World Cup..

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