{"id":425133,"date":"2011-05-16T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/eagles-lack-depth-togo-coach\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:19:08","slug":"eagles-lack-depth-togo-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/eagles-lack-depth-togo-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Lack Depth &#8211; Togo Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.1976190476\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Ajom<\/p>\n<p>16 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Coach of the new WAFU Kings, Hawks of Togo, Tchanile Tchakala has described the Super Eagles team that fell 2-3 to his side in the final of the sub-regional football tournament Saturday as &#8220;very physical and lacking in depth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the encounter, the soft-spoken tactician revealed the technical edge of the Togolese team gave them victory. &#8220;The Eagles were very physical and that made the difference because we were more technical,&#8221; he observed.<\/p>\n<p>The coach gave his Nigerian opposite number, Samson Siasia who lost his first match asnational team coach some tips on Eagles&#8217; defensive flaws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I noticed the Eagles were very fast and were always running upfield, leaving the defense open. My players capitalised on this and we got our goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As noticed during the match, goalkeeper Sunday Rotimi who obviously had a bad day, was exposed to the extent that he had several one-on-one encounters with Togo attackers. It was in one of those forays that he conceded the second goal.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Tchakala said he assembled his squad, made up of players from Togo&#8217;s second division and football academies five days before leaving for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Togo&#8217;s Premier League has been on break for the past two years, so what I did was to pick the players from the second division and football academies,&#8221; the coach said, adding that he also run an academy which contributed some of the players to the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I feel great indeed. It was a good match. I congratulate them because they have impressed me and made Togo proud today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105160849.html\" title=\"Eagles Lack Depth - Togo Coach\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eagles Lack Depth &#8211; Togo Coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jacob Ajom 16 May 2011 Coach of the new WAFU Kings, Hawks of Togo, Tchanile Tchakala has described the Super Eagles team that fell 2-3 to his side in the final of the sub-regional football tournament Saturday as &#8220;very physical and lacking in depth.&#8221; Speaking after the encounter, the soft-spoken tactician revealed the technical edge of the Togolese team gave them victory. &#8220;The Eagles were very physical and that made the difference because we were more technical,&#8221; he observed. The coach gave his Nigerian opposite number, Samson Siasia who lost his first match asnational team coach some tips on Eagles&#8217; defensive flaws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eagles Lack Depth - Togo Coach - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/eagles-lack-depth-togo-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Eagles Lack Depth - Togo Coach - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Jacob Ajom 16 May 2011 Coach of the new WAFU Kings, Hawks of Togo, Tchanile Tchakala has described the Super Eagles team that fell 2-3 to his side in the final of the sub-regional football tournament Saturday as &quot;very physical and lacking in depth.&quot; Speaking after the encounter, the soft-spoken tactician revealed the technical edge of the Togolese team gave them victory. &quot;The Eagles were very physical and that made the difference because we were more technical,&quot; he observed. 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