Amoo cautions 3SC fans
Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) coach Fatai Amoo has asked fans of the Ibadan club, to limit their optimism on the club’s chances this season even as they get set to start life in the lower cadres of the Nigerian league this weekend.
Amoo told Nigeriansportsonline.com ahead of his team’s National Division 1D opening game away to Bussdor of Port Harcourt that his team’s excellent showing in their last friendly against a newly formed Lagos United side wasn’t enough to make the club’s fans to set top targets for his side.
‘Our objective is simple, and that is to win our group and qualify for the Premier League next season,” he said.
“But I want to caution our fans to please be a little realistic, and don’t start expecting so much from us because we played well in our last friendly against Lagos United. That to me was just a small game and the real test starts at the weekend when we play away to Bussdor.
“The first game of the league is always tough and if you consider that most of our players have been inactive for over three months, you would then understand why the fans have to be patient,” Amoo further cautioned.
The former First Bank and Julius Berger of Lagos coach however, assured that as the league goes on his team would get stronger based on the fact that they were able to retain over 80 percent of their former players.
“Our team is still very much intact as we were lucky to hold on to over 80% of our old players, and that I think is a big plus. As the league goes on, the team should get stronger and we can then mount a strong promotion challenge.
“But all the same I hope to go to Bussdor’s ground and get a very good result.” Amoo said to Nigeriansportsonline.com.
3SC, who are campaigning in the National Division 1D after their relegation from the Premier League, start their promotion push with their opening game against Bussdor in Port Harcourt .