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Amapakabo Berates Players Over Derby Loss
Coach of Abia Warriors Football Club, Imama Amapakabo expressed his disappointment over the inability of his players to score goals.
Abia Warriors lost at home 1-0 and to Enyimba of Aba in a rescheduled Week 23rd encounter game on Thursday, despite dominating the game.
Failure to convert chances to goals against the Elephants means Abia Warriors have now scored just three goals in the last four outings.
Talking to the press after the Enyimba game, Imama Amapakabo made it clear that he worked out the best tactics for each game, but his players failed to take responsibility on the pitch.
“Of course, I had the same challenge when the league started and always said, it’s my responsibility as a coach to tactically build a team that will create chances, but it is the responsibility of the players to convert the chances.”
“I’m like the driver who is taking passengers to Lagos and if I drop you at Oyinbo, it’s your responsibility to find your way home. So I create chances through my technical abilities and the players should be able to score,” Amapakabo said.
The sudden departure of Nwachukwu, a multiple gold medallist, from Team Delta to the Coal City, Enugu , sparked controversy within the sports family, with officials of Delta State Sports Commission accusing the president of the Paralympic Committee of Nigeria, Sunday Odebode, of manipulating the system for the athlete to dump the state.
But Nwachukwu, who broke the World Record to win a gold medal for Team Nigeria in the Women’s Discus F42 event at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, has cleared the air on the circumstances that led to her movement to Enugu State.
Speaking with The Tidesports source report, shortly after winning the gold medal, Nwachukwu said: “It is not true that anybody aided my movement from Delta State to Enugu. Rather, it was Delta State that forced me to leave because of poor remuneration.