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| Haruna Quadri invited |
Chief coach of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation ,Nosiru Bello has called up 20 players to resume camp for the 11th All Africa Games holding in Congo .
Bello said the invited players were selected based on their performance in recent domestic and international competitions in the last one year.
“All the invited players have proved themselves in most of these competitions and that is why we have invited them to be part of the camp and we hope some of these junior players can learn from the experienced
ones so that they can also be warming themselves into the senior team. We are not inviting anybody without proven records. We hope that at the end of the day, the best will be selected for the country,”
Nigeria's and Africa’s most decorated table tennis player, Segun Toriola and 2014 International Star Player, Aruna Quadri top the list of 10 male players invited to camp.
Also, Seun Ajetunmobi, who has been out of the national team in the last two years will be returning to the team as one of the invited players.
Other male pin-pongers include Ojo Onaolapo, Kazeem Makanjuola, Olaniran
Boboye, Olawale Fagbamila, Hammed Hafeez and junior sensations, Nurudeen
Hassan and Olasunkanmi Oginni.
The female players will be led by Germany-based Funke Oshonaike and Edem Offiong , while others are Cecilia Otu-Akpan, Janet Effiom, Rashidat Ogundele, Bosede Odusanya as well as junior sensations, Tosin
Oribamise, Ajoke Ojomu and Halimot Ayinla.
10 players made up of five male and five female will make the final list to the September event in Brazzavile,Congo
At the 2011 edition of the multi-sports championship in Mozambique, Nigeria finished second behind Egypt with three gold medals while Egypt won four to emerge as the overall best team for the first time since
1999 that Nigeria has been dominating the table tennis event.
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