Joshua Odeyemi
27 December 2011
Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has promised to take a minimum of five home based players to Kigali, the Rwanda capital for the 2013 Nations Cup qualifier.
Keshi bared his mind when on Monday,team Psychologist, Robinson Okosun, drilled the players psychologically to prepare them for the challenge of playing for the national team.
Nigeria will lock horns with the National team of Rwanda in February 2012 as they begin their qualification bid for the continental show piece.
Keshi charged the home based players who are presently in camp,to prove that they are better than the foreign based pros.
He went further to declared that he will be ready to take up to ten players to Kigali from the home-based Eagles If the 30 players in camp, give him the reason to do so.
“But they (home based players) must show the hunger that they are better than the ones who are coming from Europe and are ready to win games for Nigeria and resist showing any complex, because those who are now in Europe started from here”, Keshi noted.
The Super Eagles Coach however, said if the players fail to show enough drive, he will still take at least three of them to Kigali for the qualifier.
“I’m telling you early now, so that you can go out there and prove to me and the rest of the technical crew that you can play better than those whom we often call upon from Europe”, he said.
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