Executive Chairman of Enyimba,Felix Anyansi-Agwu spoke to MTNFootball.com on tomorrow’s big match against Heartland
Does your team have what it takes to win all the trophies, like tomorrow’s Federation Cup final against Heartland, that they are pushing for this season?
Our slogan here has always been to win everything that we set out to win. We don’t go into a competition for the sake of completing the numbers and we are right on track to be crowned champions in every competition we are participating.
Our trophy cabinet still has a lot of space to be filled hence our doggedness in all competitions. We started out poorly this season but we have not lost sight of what our target is even in the domestic league where people have written us off but we have our game plan to retain our league trophy at the end of the day. It is not over for us in the league and that is a fact.
We are in the final of the Federation Cup, we are going to get to the final of the Champions League and most probably, we will win the league too. All these things are very possible and all we need is support from Nigerians to win the continental trophy. Enyimba are a big factor in Nigeria now and this fact cannot be wished away by anybody.
Looking ahead to tomorrow’s Federation Cup final, which will be an ‘Oriental Battle’, what do you expect?
It is going to be a very entertaining match which hopefully, we will win. We expect them to come all out fighting the fights of their lives but we are unstoppable now.
Like I said earlier, we don’t enter any competition for the sake of completing the numbers but we are in it to win and the Federation Cup is no exception. I am not going to engage my sister club in any verbal war but just wait until that final day in Lagos. I am glad that they qualified for the final, but at the match proper there will be no brotherly love until we are crowned winners of 2011 Federation Cup.
The tradition of Enyimba has always been that we don’t see a trophy and lose it except for last season when some manipulations led to our loss.
As has always been the case with players of Nigerian clubs that earns some measure of success dumping such clubs. Do Enyimba have what it takes to retain their players or are we going to see a mass exodus?
In Enyimba, we encourage our players who have served us satisfactorily to seek greener pastures where it is possible for them. We don’t hold back players against their wish when we are sure that such a player is in good hands.
The likes of (Vincent) Enyeama, (Dele) Aiyenugba and a host of others are eloquent testimonies that every player here could aspire to greatness and we will support him.
We are not going to stop any of our players at the end of the season. They are free to seek for clubs both within and outside of the country.
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