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Dolphins FC Not Eager To Win Super Four

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Dolphins FC of Port
Harcourt has said that the club is not eager to win the Super four trophy in Abuja, but to use it to  adequately prepare the team for CAF Champions League next month.
The Port Harcourt-based team would tomorrow lockhorns with Nigeria Professional Football league winners, kano pillars in the opening game of Super Four, that includes, the Nigeria Under-23 and 21, at Abuja.
This was contained in a statement signed by the media officer of the team, China Acheru, which was made available to Tidesports.
In the statement, the head coach of the team, Stanley Egurma said the reason why the club resumed one week behind scheduled was because most of the team  players did not report to camp on time.
Eguma explained that the camp officially opened on Sunday last week, but did not get a full house of players until a week later.
He expressed sadness over what happened, adding that some unavoidable factors were responsible for the delay.
“It is unfortunate that we are starting very late but a” lot of things attributed to it.
We first had to register our team for the continent, then sort out logistics to get players in camp and we are happy all that is behind us now” Eguma said.
The technical adviser, stated that the club has achieved a little, because there was intensive training in the camp, adding that, it is better to be late than never.
“I believed we had achieved something in camp before the tournament in Abuja, tomorrow.
The idea is to prepare the players for CAF cup next month “ and we will use the Super Four to build ourselves” he added.

 

Tonye Orabere

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