Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Enyimba players, officials take cabs to training in Sousse


By Rasaq Oboirien
IT was a bizarre treatment melted out on Enyimba FC by CAF Champions League host Etoile du Sahel after players and officials of the Peoples Elephants were forced to hire the city's yellow cabs to training from their Sousse hotel, reports NaijaSportsXtra.
The Nigerian flag bearers in the continent's inter-club championship takes a 3-0 advantage into the 2nd leg tie billed for Wednesday as they seek to book a spot into the money wining group stage, arrived the Moroccan city of Sousse on Monday.
Pictures posted on social media, twitter by Super Eagles spokesman Toyin Ibitoye revealed that Etoile du Sahel management didn't provide bus to take their players to training so team had to hire cabs.
Recall Mfon Udoh scored a hat-trick in the 1st leg meeting in Port-Harcourt to put his goal tally in the championship to seven.
The Aba Millionaires will be without suspended star midfielder Joseph Osadiaye, while they are sweating on the fitness of another midfielder, Ikechukwu Ibenegbu ‘Mosquito’, who has only recovered from food poisoning this week.
Wednesday’s match in Tunisia will be handled by Moroccan officials while the Kick-off is 6pm Nigerian time.