Reacting to the latest development in the team’s camp in Belgium ahead of today’s international friendly game against Congo DR, Coach Christian Chukwu said though he was not in Belgium, he would not support the bundling out of the goalkeeper from camp. He pointed out that it is wrong for the coach of the team to be in public disagreement with his players.
“Coaching the national team goes with managing players. No coach quarrels with his tools or else, he would not get the best from the tools. In this case, the players are the tools Oliseh needs to work with to succeed.
I think he got it wrong in the way he acted. The worst you can do to a player who is late to camp is to cut his allowance and you can’t just strip a captain because he reported late to camp,” Chukwu stated.
For former Green Eagles defender, Sylvanus Okpalla, it is wrong for Oliseh to be washing the team’s dirty linens in public.
“Oliseh must be a good coach as well as a good manager if he wants to succeed. If the coach feels strongly about the team captain not needed in the team, he should not invite him for matches. As a coach, if I invite my captain for a game, he remains the captain and when I feel he is no longer needed in the team, I stop inviting him outrightly. What Oliseh has done will have a ripple effect.”
Ex-international, Etim Esin feels the national team handler must learn to manage his players’ differences properly towards achieving desired results, while insisting that it would be a wrong call for the Lille goalkeeper to retire from international football now.
“It would be wrong for Enyeama to quit now because he has many years to serve the country,” Esin told goal. com. Breaking the silence for the first time since the incident happened on Tuesday evening, a traumatised Enyeama revealed that he was pained at the insult hurled at his late mother and attempts to throw him out of the camp by security officials.
“After 13 years in national service, having this smiles on my face and this passion in my heart,” Enyeama wrote on Instagram.
“Through the billows, the waves of the ocean, the tears of defeat, the sound of rejoicing from victory chants. Now the thought of being stripped naked and security agents throwing me out breaks me completely. “I will take anything but not insult to my dead mother,” he concluded.
However, in an interview with Brila FM yesterday, Super Eagles Coach, Sunday Oliseh said he stood by his decision on Eyeama and announced Ahmed Musa the captain of Super Eagles. His announcement comes after he and goal keeper and Eagles captain Vincent Enyeama had a faceoff in their camp in Belgium Tuesday.
“There is no captaincy tussles. For Nigeria going forward, I need a player who is regular in the team and it is Ahmed Musa, who did a great job in Tanzania under very difficult circumstances.
He (Musa) is the captain of the team, not somebody who is thinking of retirement. A captain has to lead by example. We are not here to build stars. If you don’t conform to what I am trying to do, we will be friends, but we will be friends from afar. There has been a new government and the President has picked new ministers. And that is what I have also done.” he said.
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