Dream Team VI Camp: Samson Siasia Reads Riot Acts For Invited Players

Nigeria's U23 head coach, Samson Siasia, has insisted that he's not perturbed by the likes of Swede's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, saying his side had played against world class players in the past.

The Dream Team VI, who are one of the participating teams in this year's Olympic games men's football category are in the same group with Sweden, Colombia and Japan in Group B of the Summer games.

Sia one as he's popularly called said he wants to build a team that can compete at every stage of their career for the national U23 team.

"I want to work with only the players on ground, and to get them to the shape I want,"

He added: "Yes, I have read of plans by Sweden to include someone like Zlatan Ibramovich as one of their over –aged players for the Games. Good for them, but as far as we are concerned, there is nothing like fear. For us, we are trying to put up a team, and that will determine which players we are going to bring. We have played against players of stronger calibre than Zlatan. We have played against Lionel Messi and Di Maria and others."

"We would rather think of the fact that they have a strong team tha‎t will play against us, and not individual players. I don't want to jump around and start mentioning names, and later if those players are not available, we would be disappointed. So, I have to be sure of what I am doing and when that time comes we will release the names."

The former Flying Eagles manager further revealed that Chelsea's John Mikel Obi would be welcome to play for his team, provided his club will release him for the championship.

"I guess that because Mikel missed out the last time, he wants to make up for it. Not only that, the last couple of games he has played for the Super Eagles, he has been playing very well, and if he wants to be part of the team, of course he is welcome, but as I said we have to look at the positions we really, really need people. We are not going to select players because they play for the Super Eagles or because they are still under the age bracket. They have to compete with those players who actually qualified the team for the Olympics."

Coach Siasia confirmed that he has sent a provisional list of 60 players for the Games. According to him, "if your name is not on that list, then no Olympics for you. That's why we put as many names as we can, we don't know the Europe -based players whose clubs would release for the Games."

The U-23 coach said he smiled and stood near Brazil coach, Dunga after the draws at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro: "I told myself this is the man I would be playing against in the Final Match!"