Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi appears to have shut the door on Ikechukwu Uche for the 2014 World Cup. Keshi, who had given a hint about his relationship with the striker soon after he released the squad list for the friendly match against Mexico, has maintained that the player lacked....
tactical discipline.
Keshi, who spoke with MTNFootball.com
from his base in the United States, said, “Ikechukwu Uche is not a
player I have not seen play. Ike Uche’s problem is not about not knowing
how to play football. His problem is that he wants to dictate how we
play in the Super Eagles; he wants to tell us that the system we’re
playing is not good.
”Uche has a very bad habit; if you put
him in a game, he will not play to instructions and he did that in the
final of AFCON (South Africa 2013) against Burkina Faso; he almost cost
us the game.
“Again he did that against Zambia, in
the second match when (Efe) Ambrose was given a red card. He was doing
the opposite of what we told him to do.”
Keshi added:”And if you don’t respect
your team mates and you don’t respect the team, then there is no point. I
know he cannot do that in his club, then why do it in the national
team?
“I don’t think I need a player like that in the team,” stressed Keshi with finality in his chat with MTNFootball.com.
“I don’t think I need a player like that in the team,” stressed Keshi with finality in his chat with MTNFootball.com.
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