Glo to Dream Team: Make Nigeria Proud

National U-23 team and the Women’s national team, the Super Falcons, have been tasked to ensure that they make Nigeria proud in their different football engagements this weekend.

National team’s sponsor, Globacom, in a press statement in Lagos yesterday advised the two teams to go for victories in the two qualifying matches.

 While the Dream Team VI will lock horns with Congo at Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt in the first leg qualifying match for the Rio 2016 Olympics on Sunday, the Super Falcons will face their opponent from Equatorial Guinea on Saturday at National Stadium, Abuja, in the first leg of the final qualifying round for the same Olympics in Brazil.

 According to Globacom: “The Samson-Siasia led U-23 national team is doing the right thing by emphasising intensive and rigorous preparation ahead of their match against Congo. We are confident that they will excel against the Congolese.”  

 “The drafting of some of the outstanding Flying Eagles players like Taiwo Awoniyi and Musa Mohammed to the team by led by Siasia will stand Nigeria in good stead to beat  Congo comprehensively to wrap up the qualification for the Dream Team ahead of the second leg,” the statement added.

 On Super Falcons, the telecommunication company advised the team not to underrate the Equatorial Guinea female national team in order to avoid any embarrassment.

 “Equatorial Guinea are getting stronger in Women football and would like to give Nigeria a run for its money, but we believe in the capacity of Super Falcons to triumph,” Globacom further said.

 Globacom therefore advised the technical crew of Falcons to work towards a convincing victory in order to make the second leg coming up in Malabo in a fortnight a formality.

 The national teams’ major sponsor also urged football fans in Port Harcourt and Abuja to troop out en-masse to the stadia to cheer the teams to victory.