Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi has said neither the
technical crew, NFF nor the Nigerian public will take excuses from the players
if they fail to qualify for the knock-out stage of the ongoing Nations Cup in
South Africa, as the team has potentials to be champions of the tourney.
Addressing the players at the team’s evening training in
Rustenberg on Sunday evening, Keshi said the team may have been hard done
by some calls by officiating officials but they should learn to finish games
well and with wide margins before such calls are made. “We should win our
matches before bad calls are made so that those who know next to nothing about
football will not become our overnight technical advisers”, he said.
He again restated his confidence in the abilities of his 23-man
squad to do Nigeria proud at the tourney, adding that the Super Eagles have a
rich tradition in the Nations Cup that must be sustained and improved upon by
the present squad.
On news making the rounds that he is at loggerheads with the NFF
and even threatened to resign his appointment, Keshi said there was nothing
like that, otherwise he will still not be in camp with the team. “Maybe some
people just want to create sensation in the media because the team has not
started winning games but the same people will sing our praises when we hit our
rhythm”, he said.
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