Leadership (Abuja)
5 May 2008
Two-time CAF Champions League winners, Enyimba FC of Aba are in no hurry to get a replacement for Daniel Amokachi, who was recently appointed one of the assistant coaches for the Super Eagles.
The club says it will shop for Amokachi's successor at the end of the season, its spokesman, Tonex Chukwu, said.
Amokachi, appointed as one of Shaibu Amodu's three assistants, was an assistant to Maurice Cooreman, the Aba side's Technical Adviser.
Super Eagles' goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu was also with the former champions.
"We would definitely find a replacement for Amokachi but it would be at the end of the season to enable us find a capable replacement," the spokesman said.
Chukwu told NAN in Umuahia that the team would leave for Tunis tomorrow Tuesday for the second leg third round tie of the Champions League against Tunisia's Club Africaine.
The match is scheduled for next weekend in the Tunisian capital. Chukwu said they had made adequate preparations for the clash, in spite of their 5-1 pounding of the Tunisians in the first leg in Aba. He said they had corrected the flaws noticed in the match at home on April 27. "We would approach the second leg as if the first had not been played," he assured.
The spokesman said provisions had been made to forestall any tricks their opponents might employ to intimidate them.
"The North Africans are known for such pranks, but we are used to it as we overcame such hurdles to win the cup in 2003 and 2004."
Chukwu admitted that the club had lost hope of clinching this season's Premier League title, blaming it on what he called "unfavourable conditions".
"The football authorities in the country have succeeded in making Enyimba lose the league title. I am, however, assuring you that whoever they have programmed to win the title would crash out in the first leg of the CAF Champions League as usual," he said.
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