on Saturday<\/span><\/span>, NFF’s Assistant Director (Technical), Siji\u00a0Lagunju said the Golden Eaglets can be back to winning ways if they
\ndiscover the same strong mental attitude that saw them to an impressive\u00a02-0 win against USA and 5-1 win over host Chile earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n“With my over 40 years experience\u00a0 in football as\u00a0 a player and\u00a0coach, I can categorically tell you that you technical crew led by Coach Emmanuel Amuneke has done remarkably well in training and\u00a0preparing you for this tournament,” he noted . “I commend them for\u00a0being able to impact to you the spirit of hard work and discipline, but\u00a0whatever you achieve at this tournament would be down to your personal and
\ncollective attitude as players.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Nigerian international reminded the Eaglets about the huge\u00a0responsibility in the defence of the trophy and graphically explained\u00a0that hard work and discipline without positive attitude, could lead to\u00a0failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lost to Croatia on\u00a0Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0because of poor attitude,” he\u00a0insisted.”We had a brilliant attitude before we played USA and Chile. Unfortunately, we lost the same attitude and composure against Croatia.\u00a0We\u00a0 can’t afford to display such attitude as we go into the knockout\u00a0stages and we believe you can excel\u00a0 with strong mental attitude\u00a0starting with the Round of 16 match\u00a0on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>,” noted Lagunju, a
\ngifted winger who played for defunct Leventis United, Iwuanyanwu\u00a0Nationale and Bendel Insurance in the 1980s.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the Golden Eaglets have since arrived Vina del Mar with\u00a0preparations already on for the Round of 16 match on\u00a0Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, starting with a\u00a0training session on Sunday<\/span><\/span>. They will also train twice on\u00a0Monday and once on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has strongly advised the Golden\u00a0Eaglets to put behind Friday’s 2-1 loss to Croatia in Coquimbo and\u00a0refocus their mind on greater performance at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015. Addressing the team shortly before their departure from Coquimbo to\u00a0Vina del Mar\u00a0on Saturday, NFF’s Assistant Director (Technical), Siji\u00a0Lagunju said the Golden Eaglets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[75,84,213,116,43,196,30,46,453,144],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-eaglets","tag-amaju-pinnick","tag-caf","tag-emmanuel-amuneke","tag-featured","tag-fifa","tag-mohammed-sanusi","tag-nff","tag-nigeria-football","tag-siji-lagunju","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}