Senegal 2015: Siasia gets Awoniyi for Rio 2016 qualifiers

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NIGERIA U23 coach, Samson Siasia has disclosed he has an agreement that Taiwo Awoniyi will be released by German Bundesliga 2 side, FSV Frankfurt for next month’s Africa U23 Nations Cup in Senegal, which will serve as qualifiers for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

“We got an agreement from the club before the player signed that he will be released for the competition in Senegal. So we expect them to keep to this commitment,” Siasia said.
Awoniyi, who missed the recent All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville so as to finalise his move to Europe, is on loan to Germany from EPL side, Liverpool.

The 18-year-old striker had been an unused substitute in Frankfurt’s last two league games.
The coach admitted it would be difficult to get a full array of overseas pros for the tournament, but would be satisfied with a handful of them to strengthen his team.
“We hope we could get three, four of them to add value to the team, but there will be no automatic shirt for them. They will have to come and prove they can improve what we are doing,” Siasia maintained.

For the Rio Olympics qualifiers in Senegal, Nigeria was drawn in a tough first round group that has Egypt, Mali and Algeria with the top two teams progressing to the knock- out stage of the tournament.

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