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<\/a><\/p>\nIsmaila Lere<\/p>\n
23 December 2011<\/p>\n
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Super Eagles Assistant Coach, Daniel Amokachi, took full charge of the team yesterday following the departure of Head Coach Steven Keshi for Accra, Ghana, for the Glo-CAF Awards, where he is due for a legend award category.<\/p>\n
The morning training session which lasted for about two hours, thirty minutes was supervised by Amokachi, assisted by Sylvanus Okpala,<\/p>\n
Coach Valere and keepers’s trainer Ike Shorunmu, took the players on shooting, ball possession and match time tensions and reaction to which the 30 players in camp responded well. Uche Kalu and Markson Ojobo, are the latest to join camp.<\/p>\n
Keshi had told officials of the team on Wednesday night that whenever he was not around, Amokachi takes charge and warned against distorting camp order in his absence. The ‘Big Boss’ as Keshi is called in his playing days will be glad to know that the system he had put in place ran smoothly in his absence.<\/p>\n
The players were however relaxed and had a good session with the technical crew, even as indication emerged that an unknown and uninvited player who claimed to have come all the way from Akwa Ibom, was prevented from joining the team in training by a team of policemen led by ACP Gideon Akinsola.<\/p>\n
The unknown star, had walked up to Team Psychologist, Robinson Okosun, requesting to be allowed to be part of the training, he was directed to Team Coordinator, Emmanuel Atta who told him in clear terms that he would not be allowed unless he proves his worth in warm-up.<\/p>\n
He subsequently went on several laps round the unused training pitch, while security men kept a close watch. When queried about his age and former club, he said he does not want to be rushed but later said he was unattached, 25 years old, but was born in 1986 and gave his name as Udoh Henshaw Entry.<\/p>\n
When told that he was actually supposed to be 35 by his birth date, he said that was what his mother told him. He waslater to make a phone call and came back to tell officials, he has now been told by his mother that he was born in 1988, instead of 1986.<\/p>\n
At that juncture it was obvious that the ‘unknown star’, was of unsound mind and Akinsola promptly asked his men to whisk him away from the training arena to the relief of team officials.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Keshi is due back from Ghana today to continue the drilling of the players and preparation for the January 7 friendly against a yet to be named opposition and the February 29 Nations Cup qualifier against the Wasps of Rwanda.<\/p>\n
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