Head coach of the Nigeria U17 team Nduka Ugbade has ended the phase of opening screening for uninvited players who have been undergoing trials to be a part of the next Golden Eaglet team of Nigeria.
Ugbade and the rest of the newly appointed technical crew have been running the rule on several players the past ten days and brought the process to a halt yesterday as they bid to step up preparation.
The former assistant coach to Manu Garba at same level has caught the eyes of many with his attention to details and his coaching style which often involves cracking jokes with players.
He is however worried over the lack of potent strikers after ten days of assessing over 300 footballers. He seemed satisfied with other departments bar that role of a goal scorer.
” I haven’t seen the type of striker I want but so far I have seen very good defenders, midfielders and also goalkeppers. For the strikers we will work with making the ones we have become better while we search for more options”, he said on the sideline after yesterday’s training.
