The Golden Eaglets have resumed training regimen on Tuesday upon their arrival in Dubai on a two- week camping before the kick off of the 2013 FIFA Under-17 Champions slated for October 17 to November 8, Head coach Manu Garba(MFR) said there was no time to waste since the kickoff of the 15th edition of the global cadet competition is fast approaching, adding that it was important for the players to shake off jet lag occasioned by their travelling from Calabar to Lagos on Monday before embarking on another seven-hour non-stop flight from Lagos to Dubai.
All the 25 players trained on Tuesday’s evening at the pitch of Higher Colleges of Technology located within the Dubai Academic City under a fine weather condition of 29°C with good visibility throughout the duration of about two hours training that started 4:30pm local time (1:30pm Nigerian time).
“It is good we started today,” Coach Manu Garba said. “This is important because we had our last training session on Saturday morning in Calabar; so it’s good we start conditioning ourselves to our new environment.”
The Golden Eaglets are expected to train henceforth twice daily with variations as occasion demands before their departure to the city of Al-Ain which is about one hour and thirty minutes from Dubai by flight for their preliminary group matches against Mexico and Iraq on October 19 and 22. The team’s last match against Sweden would take place in Dubai on October 25.
