{"id":25384,"date":"2013-02-11T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/kanu-wants-keshi-to-stay-on-re-build-super-eagles\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:59:33","slug":"kanu-wants-keshi-to-stay-on-re-build-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/11\/kanu-wants-keshi-to-stay-on-re-build-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanu wants Keshi to stay on, re-build Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"71\">\n<p>Johannesburg &#8211;\u00a0Former Super Eagles Captain Nwankwo \u00a0Kanu has said that coach Stephen Keshi should be left alone to fully\u00a0re-build his team ahead of future international tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu in Johannesburg on Monday said\u00a0that Keshi had laid a solid foundation with the crop of young players\u00a0that won the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He said the coach had been in football for a long time as a player and\u00a0now coach and had vast experience on how to manage a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big boss, of course he is a big boss. He makes his decision and\u00a0one thing you have to know, he has been there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe captained the Nigerian team to win it, so I do not believe that\u00a0anybody can still tell him what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody have (has) to leave him alone. Whatever he did today, no\u00a0ordinary coach especially, a local coach can do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made his team, he stand on them, he played his pattern, he stands\u00a0on them, he talked to the boys as a father, he takes them to this\u00a0highest level and they win the cup. What else do you expect of him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kanu said the present Super Eagles were potential that could go places.<\/p>\n<p>The former two-time African footballer of the (1996 and 1999) said he\u00a0<br \/>had been talking to the players to take advantage of their talents to\u00a0do the nation proud.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Eagles had proved critics wrong by winning the nations\u00a0cup, saying that his presence in the team was to give them confidence.\u00a0<br \/>(NAN)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Johannesburg &#8211;\u00a0Former Super Eagles Captain Nwankwo \u00a0Kanu has said that coach Stephen Keshi should be left alone to fully\u00a0re-build his team ahead of future international tournaments. Kanu in Johannesburg on Monday said\u00a0that Keshi had laid a solid foundation with the crop of young players\u00a0that won the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations tournament. &#8230;<\/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-25384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}