The Sam Vincent failed coup, as Ahmedu call for ca

nigeriasports.com exclusively gathered from a dependable source in the USA that coach Vincent had planned to take the team directly to Algeria which will ultimately leave out the home based players who have since joined their foreign based colleagues in the team’s Abuja camp and an opportunity for the federation members who employed coach Vincent in the first place to be in the know of what the team the NBBF have spent so much on.

To achieve his dubious aim coach Vincent had employed the services of some reliable members of the team to dissuade the NBBF president, Gyang Buba who had instructed the coach to head for Nigeria for its last training but the former South Africa tactician thought otherwise. One of the tactics employed by the coach to win over most of the players to his side was that they have nothing to gain by coming to Nigeria before heading for Algeria.

With this failed coup attempt and the uncooperative attitude of coach Vincent one beginning to wonder if he is the best to handle our national team and if D’Tigers can actually pick one of the Japan 2006 FIBA World Championship with him in charge? Meanwhile board member of the NBBF and coordinator of Dodan Warriors Basketball Programmes, Col. Sam Ahmedu who was of the believe that D’Tigers will surely qualify from its group no matter the levels of opposition but called on coach Vincent and his players to be more proactive and work as a team when hostilities began on August 14.

According to the FIBA Africa graded match commissioner says a lot have changed between last championship in 2003 and now. He was also of the view that things might not be that easy for the Vincent led coaching crew since they might not be too familiar with the African terrain. He said the NBBF should insist on having one of the old coaches (Ayo Bakare or Toyin Sonoiki) on the team since they have both the immediate past coaches the senior team.

“I believe we will qualify for the quarter-finals but for us to go to Japan we must play to get to the finals. We have always find it tough playing in North Africa because it is not going to be about the basketball you play alone, the team have to take their as they come and to be very frank I think the board (NBBF) should have insist that either Bakare or Sonoiki be part of the coaching crew, one they are both the immediate past coaches of the team and have been to Algieria together when Nigeria won its first nations cup medal a bronze in 1995”, the Warriors boss said.