The coaching crew of the Nigeria Senior Men national team, D'Tigers, earlier today release the twevle man list for the 9th All Africa games starting July 11 through 23.
The team made up of nine foreign based and three home based players has former Seattle Supersonicc centre, Olumide Oyedeji as captain, others in the line-up include captain of the 2006 Commonwealth games squad Abdulrahman Mohammed, Chamberlain Oguchi, Ejike Ugboaja, Abdullahi Kuso, home boy and former captain of the NIgeria U19 team Orseer Ikyaator, Abubakar Usman, 2006 Vmobile premier league most valuable player, Stanley Gumut, Deji Akindele, Bazuaye Obahon, Michael Umeh and Henry Ogwuma.
The team jets out to Algiers today aborad a chartered flight along side other Nigerian contingents who could not be airlifted Friday.
Team captain, Oyedeji promised to be a good leader, the Korea-base center who fell out with former coach Sam Vincent before the 2006 FIBA World Championship held in Japan says the country have all the chance to win the gold medal.
Published: 2007-07-07 19:58:28
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