Angel Ebiye Jombo has rated the Rivers United FC of Port Harcourt’s squad as ‘not good enough’ to win this season’s CAF Champions League. This is the scathing opinion of a Lagos-based coach, by name Jombo, who reasoned that The Pride of Rivers does not have enough quality players to help them rule Africa.
Judging it side-by-side with the fact that the Pride of Rivers, having lost away to the defending champions, Pyramids FC of Egypt and at home with RSC Berkane of Morocco in their first two games of the group stage, Jombo appears to have been vindicated in his verdict.
With Finidi’s Rivers United next CAF Champions League group stage match hanging far ahead on the 28th of January next year, Jombo says he is already apprehensive of their chances of scaling into the knock-out stages.
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Recent report has it that the Lagos-based coach stated as much and more during the ‘Hot Seat’ segment of Inside Naija Sports, a live streaming programme on YouTube, airing at 11:45AM on Wednesday from the studio of Sports247 Naija TV.
“If any football team wants to compete with the best teams in Africa, you must have most of the best players in your country’s league, Jombo retorted.
“When Enyimba were African champions, we remember that they had some players in the national team, the question is how many players from Rivers United are in the Nigerian national team?
The Lagos-based coach Ebiye Jumbo reiterated that; “those are some of the things we need to check and consider. You have to see if the players in your squad are good enough to compete in the national team. But the answer for now is that none are there for Rivers United.”
