{"id":15788,"date":"2010-11-06T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2010-11-06T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:56:04","slug":"offensive-football-is-my-target-siasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=15788","title":{"rendered":"Offensive football is my target&#8230; Siasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after being named as Super Eagles coach at the Nicon Luxury hotel, Samson Siasia <em>(in photo) <\/em> immediately outlined his target to change Super Eagles to attacking play. \u00a0Siasia is expected to take over officially on December 1<sup>st<\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigerian team has been criticised for its conservative tactics that were very evident under former coach Shuaibu Amodu, who always preferred his team to play it safe rather than attack with zeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy first order of business would be to change the team tactics to make them play more offensively, the manner of team you will see on the field of play would be offensive minded, free flowing football. There will be a difference,\u201d Siasia told journalists in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he made it clear that although he would not be carrying out a drastic overhaul of the team, there would certainly be changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring my interview with the NFF Technical Committee, I told them my short and long term vision for the Super Eagles as well as the 2012 Africa Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI also told them that we have to look at the areas we have to inject new players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to say we are going to ask all the old players to leave. But we have to look at the areas we think we have to inject new players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat would be when I watch their matches again and also go around scouting for other players that I think I have to put in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siasia will accompany the team to Iran for their friendly game on November 17, and says he will use the opportunity to assess the squad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe all know the nature of the team right now. The team is not in a very good shape. The next friendly we have on November 17 against Iran will help us assess the team we have right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after being named as Super Eagles coach at the Nicon Luxury hotel, Samson Siasia (in photo) immediately outlined his target to change Super Eagles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[5769,5454,5770,3953],"class_list":["post-15788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-football","tag-nigerian-football","tag-samson-siasia","tag-super-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}