‘Atlanta 1996 Team Was Better Than Mikel Obi & Co’ � Sunday Oliseh

Posted by: b3rrilyn in NaijaVibe.Net Aug 24, 2016

Nigeria football legend, Sunday Oliseh who once coached the Super Eagles of Nigeria and member of the world conquering Gold winning U-23 dream team at Atlanta 96 Olympics , has dismissed all comparison between the 1996 Dream team and the Samson Siasia led squad who brought home Bronze at the just concluded Rio 2016 Olympics.

A handful of Nigerian players in the dream team squad back then, like Austin Okocha, Sunday Oliseh , Uche Okechukwu, Emmanuel Amuneke and Daniel Amokachi in 1996 had played for the Super Eagles in the World Cup held in USA, two years earlier.
�No, I don’t think so. Every country talks about its own golden generation, and Nigeria is no different. You can’t have several golden generations, or at least not in a short space of time,” Sunday Oliseh replied, when asked if the class of 2016 at Rio can be compared to the 1996 team he participated in, by Fifa.com.