Assistant
coach of the Senior Women national team, Peter Ahmedu has revealed that the
home based basketball team is tactically and technically on the same pedestal
with their US based counterparts despite operating from different locations
ahead of the 2017 Afrobasket Women Championship in Mali.
The coach of
the 2017 Zenith Women Basketball League title winning First Bank side revealed
that the technical crew led by Sam Vincent who is charge of the D’Tigress in
Orlando are in constant touch with him.
Speaking
with journalists in Lagos ahead of the Florida team's arrival on Saturday 4th,
July 2017 to join their counterparts in Lagos, Ahmedu said distance is no
barrier between the two camps.
“We are in
constant touch with Sam Vincent who is the head coach and Mfom Udoka who is the
team manager. What they are doing in
Orlando and what we are doing in Nigeria is not different. We have the same
training programme and we both look into our training drills.”
Ahmedu who
is in the national team's technical crew for the first time said, “We will
continue to keep our fingers crossed, communicate so as to have daily insight
into what they are doing in Orlando.”
He said it
will be a different ball game for the team when the Orlando and Lagos camps are
merged when the US based team arrives in Lagos on Saturday.
“It’s going
to be a different ball game when they eventually arrive. I am
impressed with what I am seeing. We are putting everything at our disposal
together to see where we could make adjustments before the foreign players
eventually join us,” he concluded.
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