Amuneke: MRI scan can affect Golden Eaglets’ World Cup

Golden Eaglets coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, is not too comfortable with the mandated FIFA Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan on players a week to the U-17 World Cup saying it will affect the team’s preparation.

The championship is slated for Chile between October 17 and November 8.

And Amuneke is already worried three months to the tournament where his team is the reigning world champions.

“Today, you have a team when they go through MRI you find out that none or most of them couldn’t make it,” he told NAN.

“But the truth of the matter is you cannot stop growth, so it is left for us to embrace the challenges the MRI is coming with.

“The MRI is here, so whether we like it or not, we must embrace it and we must work towards the future.

“If MRI is being done a week to the tournament, where all my major players that have been with me could not make it due to growth, so, what are they expecting?

“Are they expecting us to do miracle within one week to the tournament?”

However, the coach is optimistic about the team’s chances in Chile.

“We cannot make promises now, but what we intend to do is to work hard and do our best at the World Cup,” he said.