Rivers United technical adviser Finidi George has declared the team’s readiness to face any opposition in the group stage of the CAF Champions League, reports Completesports.com.
The Port Harcourt club booked their spot in the money spinning group stage of the competition after edging past Mozambican club, Black Bulls 3-2 on aggregate.
Rivers United lost the first leg 1-0, but claimed a 3-1 victory in the reverse fixture.
The former Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, champions will be playing in the group stage of Africa’s biggest football competition for the first time.
Finidi Happy With Win Over Black Bulls
Finidi expressed delight with Rivers United’s progress in the competition.
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“I am quite happy for the victory and the hard-fought battle. Yes, to have qualified is great for everybody here,” he told the club’s media.
“We have been looking forward to this, and it has happened. Personally, it is an achievement to get to this stage, and going forward, we will see how we can compete in the group stages.”
Ready For The Big Task
The group stage draw will hold on November 3rd.
Finidi said they are looking forward to meeting other top teams on the continent.
“We will see the draws and take each game as they come. We know how difficult this tournament is, so we will add one or two players to the squad. But for now, we’ll enjoy this victory and take each game at a time,” he added.
” We could have won in Mozambique because we created enough chances, but it didn’t happen. Fortunately, we scored three at home, and it’s a well-deserved qualification.”
By Adeboye Amosu
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Wouldn’t it be interesting to have Rivers United in the same group with Mamelodi Sundowns once again….?
I have been singing this for years NPFL is Rubbish many reasons
1. Poor facilities
2. League is rife with Age cheats.
3. The league does not hold onto it best players (This won’t change as the average Nigerian will skip boarderS because the country is a mess
4. Corruption
For the little we can Control I.e. facilities, Management Age Cheats and Funding the people in charge are too corrupt to do so. Yet these people will still campaign for these players to be in Super Eagles because they too are hoping that if their players get discovered and move overseas they will get a kick back from sales.
I once said and have said many times. Nigeria’s talent bed is Academies and dual nationals in Europe the academies produced the Osimhens and Dual Nationality the Lookmans.
I said always the NPFL playes needs to be banned FROM super Eagles and need to focus on two things CHAN and CAF club comps and if they consistently do well SE can open their doors however in order to do this due diligence needs to be done on improving NPFL from. INFRASTRUCTURE TO RUNNING OF THE LEAGue fairly until then all these debating whether NPFL PLAYERS are not in Super Eagles will keep killing this team
SUPER EAGLES FAILED BECAUSE OF LOCAL COACHES COMING IN AND BRINGING IN THESE USELESS PLAYES TO PROSECUTE GAMES IN TBE BEGINNING OF THE qualifiers the likes of your Igboke and Sadiq dem and deludedly calling on them when we needed to either draw level or win the games in the beginning of the qualifiers. Finidi who made sure he too 6 NPFL players in his first 2 squad lists. WhT a joke.
Ndi NPFL players cannot qualify for the CAF Champions League group stage. Ngwa Finidi is a poor coach. Ndi homebase players are horrible.
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