Daniel Amokachi, the coach of the Super Eagles Team B, on Wednesday said he would not miss Emem Eduok, who was thrown out of the team’s Abuja camp on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Super Eagles will take on Cote d’ Ivoire and Sudan on Jan. 11 and Jan. 17 respectively in international friendlies.
NAN recalls that Amaju Pinnick, the Chairman, Nigeria Football Association (NFA), had on Tuesday directed that Eduok be thrown out of the team’s camp following a transfer saga.
Tunisian football club Esperance and Norwegian clubside Sarpsborg FC are locked in a controversy over Eduok’s transfer.
Amokachi, however told newsmen in Abuja that he had 23 other players to select his final squad from.
“As a coach you don’t miss just one single player, and my focus is on the other 23 players in camp. One player cannot do what I want on the field of play.
“We have over 160 million people in Nigeria and out of that 160 million we have 20 million people who play football and Eduok is one of them.
“He is lucky to be picked. He is not the best player, because everybody has his own ordained time.
“Though he is a player that we need, but we have other players who can do what he does on the field.
“We just wish him the best in his contract saga,’’ he said.
Amokachi said however that the team’s technical crew was contacted before the decision to decamp Eduok was made.
“The NFA Chairman consulted the team’s technical crew and the crew consulted the coach before the player was contacted,’’ he said.
The coach urged other players to be wary of football agents they were having dealings with, so as to avoid a situation similar to that of Eduok.
He also advised football clubs in the country to organise seminars for their players so as to educate them on the implications of signing for more than one club.(NAN)
Source: Leadership.ng
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