Siasia keen on Isaac, Iwobi, Iheanacho in his squad for Olympics

After winning the 2015 U23 Caf Africa Cup of Nations title in
style, coach Samson Siasia is hopeful of strengthening his
squad with the addition of Kelechi Iheanacho, Isaac
Success, Alex Iwobi and Aminu Umar ahead of the Olympic Games in August.

Siasia, who has been on holidays in the United States of
America, has kept mute about his plans and programmes
for the Olympics leaving.

The coach, however, broke his silence when he spoke about
his programme with the Nigeria Football Federation on
Tuesday.

A very close confidant of the coach who spoke on condition
of anonymity told Goal on Wednesday that Siasia has been
thinking of ways to boost the team’s front line that has
given him much headache since the 2015 All African Games.

The former Super Eagles coach is not expected to do a total
overhaul of the team, but he is eager to inject quality
players to make it a very solid and result-oriented one
capable of withstanding threats from European and South
American opponents that they would face.

“The chief coach has been working all this time he has been
in the United States because he told me that time is not on
the team’s side again,” the source told Goal .

“What is paramount in his mind is injection of quality and
talented players to beef up the team and make it stronger
than the one that won the Africa U23 Cup of Nations. He has
a limited number of players he is looking at and the search
light is on the three departments of the team, attack,
midfield and defense, but most importantly the attack and
the defense line.

“As I speak with you he has already spoken with Kelechi
Iheanacho, Isaac Success, Alex Iwobi and Aminu Umar to be
members of the team. He said with a number of grade A
friendlies, these attackers and the other defenders and
midfielders that he hopes to introduce to the team would not
only fortify it but make it very ready for the battle to conquer
the world at the Olympics in Brazil.

‘The chief coach has wonderful plans to surprise the world
this time around and he said that both the National Sports
Commission and the Nigeria Football Federation have vowed to help him out this time around not like what happened in
Senegal during the Africa Championship.”