Eguavoen Flays Moroccan Officials Over Attitude OnTraining

Austin Eguavoen has been left livid by the antics of Morocco officials, who denied his Olympic team training opportunities on Tuesday.

The Nigeria squad were due to train at the facility of clubside Raja, but were prevented by club officials, who claimed to be acting on the directives of the football federation.

“You cannot train here today, it’s not allowed. Our teams want to use both pitches, sorry my friends, sorry, am only following directives from the football federation. I don’t want to lose my job,” said one of the three officials of Raja Club Athletics as they ushered the Olympic Eagles out of the Raja Astro turf.

The same officials had on Monday denied the team access to the natural grass pitch despite an initial agreement that the team would only be allowed to use the pitch on the said time.

Eguavoen was miffed, albeit philosophical.

“What can we do? There is nothing we can do about it. Again I would say in the Moroccan part, they are not being friendly.

“Their action is not sportsman like; the Nigeria Football Federation had an agreement with them that everything was going to be available.

“But getting here, there is nothing available, we can’t get a pitch to train, its synthetic and that’s counter productive. And to my greatest surprise, its cold, windy and rainy here and we are training with T-shirts, that’s very dangerous,” Eguavoen lamented.

He however urged Nigerians to keep praying for the team; assuring that the team will do its best to pick an Olympic ticket.

Meanwhile, the wintry kit of the team has arrived at the Anfa Port Hotel, camp.