Super
Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has said that Fernabahce of Turkey
defender, Joseph Yobo, remains the national team captain, even though
the player has been left out of the national team since Nigeria won the
African cup in February.
Keshi who spoke at the team’s camp in
Abuja on Wednesday, said he had a lot of respect for Yobo because of
what he has done for the nation. But despite Keshi assurance that Yobo
remains the captain, the defender was left out of the 20-man list of
players called up for the Mandela Challenge next month.
On Wednesday Keshi said, “It will not be
fair to invite Yobo to the national team and ask him to be on the
bench, it will be a huge disgrace and I won’t be part of that. When the
team needs him he will be recalled and will definitely start as captain
even if along the line, we substitute him.”
He then underlined the condition for Yobo to make a return to the team.
“For the captain of the team, he has to
work extra hard to remain so because he is leader of the team and that
has been the philosophy of the team since we took over because that was
the way we were brought up to captain the national team.”
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