Nigeria/Gambia: AYC – Gambia Won’t Be Easy for Us – Obuh

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Patrick Omorodion 23 April 2011 The sun was really scorching on Wednesday April 20, 20011 when Saturday Vanguard visited the home of the Adefemis in Ikorodu, Lagos State to find out how they were taking the untimely death of their promising son and brother, Olubayo Adefemi, two days earlier in an auto accident in far away Greece where he plied his football trade. Nothing on Palm Avenue on Majidun area of the town suggested that such a player, who made his name with the 2005 Flying Eagles squad before graduating into the U-23 team that lost narrowly to Argentina at the football event of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, had just died. Even the family home, a modest bungalow, suggested no such mood until this reporter went through the gate to be confronted by a large photograph of the player in his national team colours placed on a table with a condolence register for sympathisers who trooped there to commiserate with them

Vanguard (Lagos)

Patrick Omorodion

23 April 2011

Flying Eagles now work on the tither after losing their second group match to Cameroon Thursday and coach John Obuh has said that Gambia who they meet tomorrow in the last group game won’t be an easy nut to crack.

In a post match interview with cafonline.com, Obuh expressed his disappointment with the players’ performance and said they lacked the fighting spirit as he had hoped to beat Cameroon as a departure from the past when they always had the upper hand.

“We lost against a strong Cameroonian team. I came into this tournament with the hope of turning the tables and for once, beat Cameroon. Unfortunately we lost. I was not satisfied with my boys’ performance. They played but did not show the desire to want to win.”

He said he would go back to the drawing board to re-strategise against Gambia who drew 1-1 with Ghana who are not too sure of making the next round having lost their opening match 1-2 against the Flying Eagles.

He described VV Venlo attacker, Ahmed Musa, who was missing from the Thursday line-up after heading back to Holland for an important league game this weekend, as a very important player in the team but added that if he had played like others, the situation wouldn’t have changed.

“(Ahmed Musa) is an important player but the thing is, if he was here and played like the other players did, we still could have lost. That does not mean he is not important, as he was man of the match in previous game and it takes an important player to get that. But I cannot attribute the loss to his absence.”

He congratulated Cameroon on their victory, adding that “we lost against a strong Cameroonian team. I came into this tournament with the hope of turning the tables and for once, beat Cameroon. Unfortunately we lost.”

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