4Players Depart Nigeria Olympic Team As Dream Team To MEET Germany In Semi Finals

The media officer and 4 players have been asked to leave the camp of Nigeria under 23 in Brazil because their bills can not be fixed by the Nigeria Olympic committee.

According to africanfootball.com, the dream team has been faced with serious financial hardship in Brazil.

It was on record that the captain of the team foot their hotel bill last week and now 4players and a media officer has been forced to leave the time on duely.

Media officer Timi Ebikagboro and two alternative players Stanley Dimgba and goalkeeper Yusuf Mohammed have been ordered to return to the country while two alternate players, Taiwo Awoniyi and Godwin Saviour, have since left the squad. According to a report by africanfootball.com, Ebikagboro and the players will fly out on Tuesday, August 15, from the Nigerian camp in Sao Paolo and head back to Lagos.

The alternate players and the media officer are not on official list of the Olympics organizers but they could have stayed if the Nigeria Olympic Committee had decided so. AfricanFootball.com claims ‘Ebikagboro, Dimgba and Muhammed will return to Nigeria Tuesday while their flight- Ethiopia Airline will leave Sao Paolo 1am Nigerian time for Lagos today’. Nigeria’s next match is against Germany in the semi-final of the men’s football tournament of the Rio Olympics.

One of the players to return is Ebikagboro, he did not join the team for the preparation training in US because the Nigeria US Embassy refused to give him visa on time, thereby his name was not on the official list of the Olympic team.

As fate may have it, he is also among the players that has been forced to return home.

What is the courage here??????