Nigeria Coach Orders Short Back and Sides for Olympic Team

LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria’s Olympic football coach Samson Siasia has warned his players that he expects short hair and correct clothing for the Beijing Games, a federation spokesman said on Friday.Siasia, known as a stickler for discipline, believes that his players are devoting too much time to their elaborate hairstyles, time which he believes could be better used in fine-tuning their performances. And the coach goes as far as to claim that players with short hair are more aerodynamic and so find it easier to find their rhythm on the pitch. Nigeria, the Olympic champions in 1996, are drawn with the Netherlands, Japan and the United States in the first round of the Olympic tournament.--Source AFP/Yahoo News