22 March 2011
GBOLAHAN Salami has joined up with the Olympic team after being handed a reprieve by the NFF Appeals Committee.
The 3SC forward was handed a one-year ban from all football activities by the NFF Disciplinary Committee for attempting to confront a referee after a League game.
That ban was lifted on appeal on Tuesday, and a sober Salami immediately flew to Benin to join the Under-23 squad.
“He has joined us here, and has started training with the rest,” a team official told KickOffNigeria.com.
The experience also appears to have tempered the fiery temper of the volatile cadet star.
“He is very much sober and more humble now, and even some of the team officials were joking about it and wondering if he was the same Gbolahan they knew before.”
Salami is expected to be a key part of the team to take on Equatorial Guinea in the Edo State capital on March 26.
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