{"id":429360,"date":"2011-05-24T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/24\/nigeria-siasia-explains-odemwingie-omission\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:09:43","slug":"nigeria-siasia-explains-odemwingie-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/24\/nigeria-siasia-explains-odemwingie-omission\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Siasia Explains Odemwingie Omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"15.8908737864\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.champion.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailychampion180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Champion (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Daily Champion (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>COACH of Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles, Samson Siasia has explained why he left out Osaze Odemwingie from the squad for the friendly game against Argentina and the 2012 Africa Nation&#8217;s Cup qualifier against Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Siasia released a 24 man list for the upcoming matches with Odemwingie the surprise omission. The Super Eagles Coach said Odemwingie stormed out of the team&#8217;s camp after the 2012 Africa Nation&#8217;s Cup qualifier against Ethiopia on March 21.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Odemwingie) left the team&#8217;s camp without my permission and he has not called me since then. The other players threatened to stage a walk out of the national team if he was invited and we did not want a situation where Nigeria will be disgraced.<\/p>\n<p>It is a case of instilling discipline. No one is bigger than the national team,&#8221; Siasia said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105241175.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Siasia Explains Odemwingie Omission\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Siasia Explains Odemwingie Omission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 21 May 2011 COACH of Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles, Samson Siasia has explained why he left out Osaze Odemwingie from the squad for the friendly game against Argentina and the 2012 Africa Nation&#8217;s Cup qualifier against Ethiopia. Siasia released a 24 man list for the upcoming matches with Odemwingie the surprise omission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Siasia Explains Odemwingie Omission - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/24\/nigeria-siasia-explains-odemwingie-omission\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Siasia Explains Odemwingie Omission - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"21 May 2011 COACH of Nigeria&#039;s Super Eagles, Samson Siasia has explained why he left out Osaze Odemwingie from the squad for the friendly game against Argentina and the 2012 Africa Nation&#039;s Cup qualifier against Ethiopia. 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