Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (CFR), has debunked
claims making the rounds that he has foreclosed the issue of team
skipper, Joseph Tambarin Yobo, returning to the team, insisting that
Yobo will sooner than later be back in the squad.
Super Eagles Media Officer, Ben Alaiya, quotes the coach as saying he never spoke to any media organization regarding the return to the national team or otherwise of Yobo in Abidjan during the Eagles CHAN qualifier against the Elephants of Cote D’Ivoire.
“He is like a younger brother to me and I want the best for him but
there seems to be a desperate bid to create a war between me and my
captain and I will always reject that because he remains one of
Nigeria’s biggest football players and we cannot rush him out just like
that”, Keshi said .
The Eagles boss declared that there are issues he is always misquoted out of context about. “When I speak about the NFF, it’s convenient for people to misquote me, to create a crisis between me and my employers, but I had never had any problem with them, and they have said so. “The Aminu Maigari led NFF board has been more than supportive of the team we have on ground and nobody should say otherwise just to create sensation. There are channels of communications in the NFF and the Super Eagles and if information did not come through those channels they should be disregarded”.
Super Eagles Media Officer, Ben Alaiya, quotes the coach as saying he never spoke to any media organization regarding the return to the national team or otherwise of Yobo in Abidjan during the Eagles CHAN qualifier against the Elephants of Cote D’Ivoire.
“He is like a younger brother to me and I want the best for him but
there seems to be a desperate bid to create a war between me and my
captain and I will always reject that because he remains one of
Nigeria’s biggest football players and we cannot rush him out just like
that”, Keshi said .The Eagles boss declared that there are issues he is always misquoted out of context about. “When I speak about the NFF, it’s convenient for people to misquote me, to create a crisis between me and my employers, but I had never had any problem with them, and they have said so. “The Aminu Maigari led NFF board has been more than supportive of the team we have on ground and nobody should say otherwise just to create sensation. There are channels of communications in the NFF and the Super Eagles and if information did not come through those channels they should be disregarded”.
