Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, Sir Alex Ferguson as well as Arsene Wenger are the coaches Nigeria handler Stephen Keshi looks up to.<\/p>\n
Former Mali and Togo handler Keshi has named the three top coaches as his coaching role models and said, \u201cI will borrow the good aspects from these three world-class coaches and I\u2019m sure I will eventually become like them.\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0
The Nigeria coach said as a player former Eagles skipper Christian Chukwu was his role model.
\u00a0 \u00a0
\u201cChukwu will play for 90 minutes without making a wrong pass or committing a foul. I tried to be like him and I eventually became like him on the pitch of play,\u201d Keshi said.
\u00a0 \u00a0
Meanwhile, the Eagles training camp for the domestic league players will no longer break on Thursday.
\u00a0 \u00a0
The NPL stars will now leave camp January 17 to regroup in February for a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda in Kigali.
\u00a0 \u00a0
Officials of the team said the need for proper bonding of the team and for the team to have a character of oneness informed the decision not to go on break for four days.
\u00a0 \u00a0
The coaches also feel that all the work that has been done on the players will be lost by the time the players return.
\u00a0 \u00a0
The team are now to remain in camp till January 15, when they should play an international friendly as a January 7 date for a friendly is now shaky.
\u00a0 \u00a0
Already Liberia are being touted as the local Eagles likely opponents.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, Sir Alex Ferguson as well as Arsene Wenger are the coaches Nigeria handler Stephen Keshi looks up to. Former Mali and Togo handler Keshi has named the three top coaches as his coaching role models and said, \u201cI will borrow the good aspects from these three world-class coaches and I\u2019m sure I will eventually become like them.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 The Nigeria coach said as a player former Eagles skipper Christian Chukwu was his role model. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cChukwu will play for 90 minutes without making a wrong pass or committing a foul. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n