{"id":851973,"date":"2025-05-29T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/eric-chelle-sounds-note-of-warning-to-jamaica-ahead-of-unity-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:11:52","slug":"eric-chelle-sounds-note-of-warning-to-jamaica-ahead-of-unity-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/eric-chelle-sounds-note-of-warning-to-jamaica-ahead-of-unity-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Chelle sounds note of warning to Jamaica ahead of Unity Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Eric Sekhou Chelle, has sent a note of warning to Jamaica ahead of the 2025 Unity Cup final showdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three-time AFCON winners sealed a 2-1 win over Otto Addo&#8217;s Ghana at the Gtech Community Stadium last night, thanks to a goal from Cyriel Dessers and Semi Ajayi&#8217;s deflected attempted.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will now face Jamaica in the final and Eric Chelle has made it clear they&#8217;ll be no room for jibes from his side on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1060190780-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer William Troost-Ekong\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154416\">William Troost-Ekong and Coach Eric Chelle of Nigeria during the Men FIFA World Cup [Photo credit\/Imago]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/arsenal-super-eagles-osimhen-chelsea.html\">\u2018Arsenal needs him\u2019 \u2013 Super Eagles star Omeruo reveals the real reason he wants Osimhen to join Chelsea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/super-eagles-rangers-cyriel-dessers.html\">\u201cI hope to play in big tournaments with Super Eagles\u201d \u2013 Rangers\u2019 Cyriel Dessers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/unity-cup-nigeria-ghana.html\">Dessers shines, Ismaila assists: Player ratings from Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 win over Ghana in the Unity Cup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1057772427-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153525\">Eric Sekou Chelle after the Nigeria Football Federation unveiled the new Head Coach of the Super Eagles. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe just played a game, so we will try to prepare for the second game, but we&#8217;re in the final, so we want to win, but the reality is Jamaica have a great team, with great staff, and great players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;ll be a great game, so we&#8217;ll focus on the two or three training sessions we have and we&#8217;ll see what happens after,\u201d the Frenchman said in his post-match conference.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quizzed about the preferred style of play he&#8217;ll love to see his team emulate, the former Mali coach said;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy philosophy is to play high pressure games, but the system is very difficult for the players. My dream is that I want my team to be intense for 90 minutes, but I think it&#8217;s impossible, so we need to work and improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1040020045-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer E\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146631\">February 03 2024: Eric Chelle Mali \/\/ during a African Cup of Nations Quarter final game, Ivory Coast vs Mali, at Stade de la Paix, Bouake, Ivory Coast. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLike I said, the reality is since I&#8217;ve been coach of this team, I&#8217;ve had maybe seven training sessions, and we&#8217;ve played two games, two wins and a draw, so, to improve we need to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players need to know what I want and I think we played a great first half against Ghana but in the second half they were tired, but I&#8217;m so proud of them because they fought,\u201d Eric Chelle concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1039830171-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146630\">Coach Eric Chelle of Mali during the Afcon 2023 match between Mali and Burkinafaso at Stade Amadou Gon Coulibaly in Korhogo, Cote d Ivoire. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Super Eagles will lock horns against the <em>Reggae Boyz<\/em> of Jamaica on the 31st of May at the Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/eric-chelle-nigeria-jamaica.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Eric Sekhou Chelle, has sent a note of warning to Jamaica ahead of the 2025 Unity Cup final showdown, Soccernet.ng reports. The three-time AFCON winners sealed a 2-1 win over Otto Addo&#8217;s Ghana at the Gtech Community Stadium last night, thanks to a goal from Cyriel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140853,2005,1342],"tags":[140851,12143],"class_list":{"0":"post-851973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chelle","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-sounds","10":"tag-chelle","11":"tag-sounds"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}