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  • Dolphins enjoying 4th spot, says Eguma

    Dolphins enjoying 4th spot, says Eguma

    DOLPHINS’ manager, Stanley Eguma says he is enjoying the view from 4th place as he looks down on sixteen other clubs on the log.

    After the home draw against Sunshine Stars in week 4, Dolphins were in 16th position but since then, they have won every home match played and picked points on the road to Sharks and Kwara United to move to 4th spot.

    In Port Harcourt on Sunday, it was a hard fought 1-0 win over Elkanemi on a waterlogged pitch due to heavy rains and Eguma says he is happy that their hard work is finally bearing fruit.

    “We have all worked hard and I am happy we have moved to 4th place. It’s actually a good feeling to be up here.

    “Now we have to keep fighting, not relent and grab points on the road to move further up into top three,” Eguma said.

    Less than one minute into the game on Sunday, El Kanemi’s Isaac Giwa tried a back pass to his goalkeeper, David Obiasor, but the ball stopped in a pool of water.

    With Derek Amadi running in for the ball, Giwa pulled him down and the referee promptly pointed to the spot.

  • Eguma laments loss of players to national assignment

    Eguma laments loss of players to national assignment

    The team manager of Dolphins football club of Port Harcourt, coach Stanley Eguma has lamented the loss of his key players to national assignments.

    Speaking with Sporting Life, Eguma noted that while there are several clubs in the premiership, he could not understand why his club has to produce most of the players for national assignment.

    He said his team is suffering depletion due the loss of this players to the national teams and that it’s affecting their performance in the league.

    “The problem that I have in the team now is that I have a depleted side. Most of my players are not in the team and it’s really affecting us. They have all gone to the national teams for national engagements. I’m not happy about it, we have several clubs in the Premiership, I don’t know why Dolphins should provide up to five or six players to the national sides.

    “It’s not good. They are going for a very long tournament and the league is on. I dont think it’s good for us. It’s a youth competition and there are so many youths in the country. the team should not die because there is a national assignment, we have to survive in the Premiership.

    “It’s not proper. If they were in the various categories of the national teams where they would honour national calls at different periods, it would be different, but no up to six players going to honour national call at the same time, taking months away from the team, for me, it’s not okay,” he lamented.

    Meanwhile he was also grateful to the team that gave him a two nil victory over Kaduna Utd during the mid-week encounter in Port Harcourt.

    “It was a good game though I expected a better performance that what I saw. I’m glad we were able to get the goals because I played without most of my key players and it really affected our performance. I thank God because those who played were able to score goals to secure the victory. I commend their efforts,” he said.

  • Eguma unhappy with media treatment

    Eguma unhappy with media treatment

    Dolphins manager, Stanley Eguma has denied that he refused to speak to the media shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw at home to Sunshine Stars on Matchday 4 of the Nigeria Professional Football League.

    It was reported that the gaffer refused to speak to the press after the game because he was unhappy with the officiating in the game at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium.

    “I was angry when I read reports that I did not speak to the press after the game. That was not true,” the former Gabros manager told supersport.com.

    The gaffer explained that he stood at his “usual position” in the mixed zone waiting for the journalists present at the stadium to commence post-match interviews but claimed that he was ignored.

    “I was at my usual position waiting to be interviewed but the journalists all ignored me and were instead speaking to the Sunshine Stars coach. What was I supposed to do? Wait there forever? Also, the atmosphere after the game was tense and I was advised by my aides to leave the pitch as the security presence was fast thinning out,” he added.

    Dolphins have made an inauspicious start to the new season racking up four points from a possible 12.

  • Incessant players’ movement worries Eguma

    Incessant players’ movement worries Eguma

    Dolphins gaffer, Stanley Eguma, has expressed concern with the continuous movement of players in Nigeria’s top flight every season.

    Nigeria is probably the only country where professional footballers change clubs almost every other year and the experienced Eguma wants the authorities to do something about it.

    “It doesn’t help the clubs and it’s not good for the development of the league. There are players who have played for four teams in four years. Coaches work with new players every year. There is no way a coach can build a proper structure if it continues this way,” Eguma said to supersport.com.

    Supersport.com has learned that some teams have as much as 15 new players in the 2012/13 season which kicked off last Saturday.