Nigeria and Brazil are the best teams at 2016 Olympics – South Africa coach
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- Apr 26, 2016
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Head coach of South Africa’s U-23, Owen Da Gama, has claimed hosts Brazil and Nigeria are the best teams at this year’s Olympics football event.
The Amaglug-glug will be at the Games too, after they edged out Senegal at the 2015 African U-23 Championship and Gama is hoping to make impact when the competition starts.
He told Fifa.com : “It might bring us luck. Who knows? I always prefer to start off against the big teams, though, and I think Brazil and Nigeria are the best two sides. After that, the only way is up.”
Speaking about their opening game against Brazil, Gama refused to rule out the possibility of his team upsetting the hosts.
“Anything’s possible in football,” he continued.
“The fact that we have only five of our guys playing in Europe, with the rest of the team based at home, perhaps works in our favour, as we can spend more time together and play together. It could be an advantage, though you still have to respect Brazil all the same.”
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