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U23 AFCON: Rohr offers to help Dream Team VII

By Sampson Adedeji

In order to pick one of the three African tickets of the Men's Football Tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Nigeria's Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has declared his readiness to assist Dream Team VII achieve their set objective, BSNSports.com.ng can report.

BSN reports that the Nigeria U23 side under the tutelage of Imama Amapakabo has been in their camp in Abuja preparing for the 2019 U23 African Cup of Nations to be hosted by Egypt.

Rohr who is presently in France stated that it will not be too good for Nigeria's Men's Football team to miss out of the Olympic Games after losing Olympic's Women's Football ticket when Super Falcons were bundled out if the qualification by Ivory Coast.

"Imama will select the team, but qualification for Olympics is very important  and some players could also be interesting for my team. But I will try to help Imama.

"I’m going to Egypt first to assist the U-23,” he Said.

Nigeria have been handed a tough preliminary group section  along with West African rivals Cote d’Ivoire  as well as Zambia and South Africa and the Olympic Eagles will start their campaign on 9th November  at Al Salam Stadium in Cairo against  Cote d’Ivoire to be followed with  the games against Zambia on 12th November  and South Africa on 15th November.