Ekun Samuel, 4th Thursday 2016, 9:00AM.
Ahead of the U23 Super Eagles Olympic group opening game against Japan in the ongoing Rio Olympic in Brazil, the team have overall experienced a set back of delayed departure.
The U23 Olympic team whose training ground has been Georgia State University soccer ground Atlanta in the USA, has been failed to be granted chattered flight due to payment not been made. The team was reportedly headed to the Airport and was been told their chattered flight has not been paid.
The team has on several occasions been told to pack, and ready for departure, only for them to unpack again due to failure of financing their flight arrangements.
Reports from the Presidency claims a Presidential jet has been sent to rescue the team out of the menace situation. Something Minister for Youth and Sport Dalung will have tough questions to answers for later.
The flight from Georgia is 7 hours, and the team has Friday morning to play Japan. There will evidently be a jet lag for the players who have reportedly murmuring of their morale been affected.
Reports from few of the players revealed their frustration; “Bros, we’re all tired. Every day they tell us to get ready and pack our bags. We’ll end up unpacking the luggage, one of the exhausted players complained. Another player added; We’ve been told to get ready to fly out in few hours but that's been the story since last week. Our training has been distorted, and our morale has gone down. This is the worst arrangement I've seen since I started playing for the national team”.