Monday, 16 May 2016

Siasia meets Mikel, Ighalo in London

DREAM Team VI handler, Samson Siasia on Sunday night met Super Eagles Captain, Mikel Obi and Watford forward Odion Ighalo at Novikov Restaurant & Bar in London over the prospect of the duo joining the Rio 2016 Olympics bound team.


Ighalo saw 90 minute of action as Watford played an entertaining 2-2 draw at home to Sunderland earlier in the day, while Mikel did not feature in Chelsea’s 1-1 draw against the Premier League champions Leicester City at Stamford Bridge.

Ighalo uploaded a group picture with the national Under-23 coach taken at the restaurant located at 50A Berkeley St, London W1J 8HA, United Kingdom on his Instagram account on Monday.

“About last night,” the Watford striker posted alongside the picture.

SportingLife had earlier reported that Siasia has over 10 shortlisted over-aged players on the 60-players pool submitted for this year’s Olympics and he is taking his time to know where exactly is needed to beef up the team for the competition which he almost led the Nigerian team to the final of the 2008 edition in Beijing, China losing the gold medal to the Lionel Messi-led Argentina.

The coach is eyeing the gold medal of this year’s edition and he has mapped out visitations to London, Germany, Spain and France to meet one on one with the likely players that falls within the age bracket of the competition and over-aged players too.



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