Believes technical crew can make improvements

By Rasheed Adewuyi

Former Golden Eaglets coach Fanny Amun says it is too early to write off the country’s U-17 national team at the on going Africa cup of nations in Algeria.

The Golden Eaglets lost their second group B match by a loan goal to Morocco on Wednesday.

Amun in a chat with Sports Joust disclosed that it would be totally wrong to criticize the country’s flag bearers because the competition is still very young, adding that he believes the technical crew are working hard to make the team better.

” To be honest with you, It won’t be fair to conclude that this is a bad team. If you can recollect, my team lost the opening match in Japan and we won the cup at the end of the competition,” he said.

He added ” I think we should allow them return from Algeria after which we can start to look at what went wrong and how to solve the problems to prevent them from happening in future. I still believe they will qualify ”

It should be recalled that Fanny Amun led the Golden Eaglets to win the U17 world cup in Japan in 1993.

Nigeria will take on South Africa in the last group B match on Saturday. The Golden Eaglets must win the match convincingly to advance to the quarter final of the competition.

Morocco is leading the pack in group B with maximum points from 2 matches. As of the time of filing this report, South Africa is playing against Zambia in other group B encounter.