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The
Samson Siasia-led Super Eagles technical crew on Tuesday had the full
complement of invited home based players to work with as the team
continued its preparations ahead of next month’s invitational
tournament in the United States of America.

Unlike Monday’s
training session, which came up in the evening, the team on Tuesday
trained twice – once in the morning and the other in the evening – at
the practice pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja.

Also, unlike Monday’s session, which had only 14 players in attendance, Tuesday’s training had 26 players in attendance.

However, only 25 of
the players worked with Siasia and his assistants as Valentine Nwabili
was nursing an injury. The injury is, however, mild and the fullback,
who already has a couple of caps with the national team, is expected to
resume full training with the team later today.

Siasia gets car

Meanwhile, the
Nigeria Football Federation on Tuesday evening presented Siasia with
his official car, a 2010 model of the Ford Taurus. The NFF also
provided the Super Eagles coach with a chauffeur.

The short ceremony,
which took place at the Glass House secretariat of the NFF, was
presided over by NFF president, Aminu Maigari, and in attendance were
other board members of the NFF including 1st vice president, Mike Umeh;
technical committee boss, Chris Green; Shehu Adamu, Deji Tinubu, as
well as referees committee boss, Muazu Suleyman.

Speaking at the
handing over, Maigari noted that the NFF has now fulfilled its pledge
to give Siasia the same first-class treatment that had been accorded
expatriate coaches of the Super Eagles in the past.

An elated Siasia
beamed widely as he stepped into the state-of-the-art machine and was
driven by Maigari, before he thanked the NFF for the gesture.

“Honestly, I am overjoyed. I thank the NFF for this car and I
promise that we will earn results on the field that will make everyone,
every Nigerian, happy,” said Siasia.