Despite receiving several accolades for the provisional 2014 World Cup Finals list released by Super Eagles gaffer, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi last week, ex-Eagles’ goal tender, Gbenga Moses, has faulted the exclusion of Villarreal in-form striker, Ike Uche and his FC Schalke 04 counterpart, Chinedu Obasi, from the 30-man list, insisting that Keshi acted wrongly in his decisions to drop the duo.
Moses, who featured for the major Nigerian league clubs like defunct IBL Fc, Bendel Insurance, Iwuanyanwu Nationale, NNB Fc of Benin and Julius Berger FC during his playing days, noted that it was very wrong of Keshi to drop two of his best players at the moment, stressing that the gaffer should have considered the interest of the country to pardon whatever wrongs the players might have done to him to give them opportunity to prove themselves.
Moses also lamented the absence of a match reader in the team, warning that the team requires the service of an experienced match reader for a championship like the World Cup.
However, Moses opined that the team had what it takes to take the whole world by storm in Brazil
“The performances of the Super Eagles at the USA 1994 team will be replicated in Brazil. When the team won the African Nations Cup in Tunisia ‘94, they took that spirit to the World Cup in USA and performed very well, qualifying for the second round. Again, this team has done so well under Keshi because he has been able to do what no other coach has done since ‘94. I believe that with crop of players we have now, which is a mixture of the experienced and new ones, I foresee a good outing in Brazil by our players.
He is the one that wears the shoes and he knows where they pitch him. I urge Nigerians to believe in the list he has given us.
“My only fear in the team is that Keshi does not have a match reader. After the sacking of Sylvanus Okpala, I do not think his other assistants can do that for him. If you look at the Brazilian bench, you see serious, experienced and old coaches who have different tasks in the team. The same with the Spanish team. But this is what is lacking in the Nigerian bench because I do not see any of Keshi’s assistants as been capable of reading matches. The bench definitely needs an experienced coach who can read matches, so that we can go far in Brazil,” he argued.