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| An Eagles player in ther game against Ivory Coast |
FORMER Super Eagles midfielder, Mutiu Adepoju, has advised home-based players invited to the national camp by Coach Stephen Keshi, to see the assignment as an opportunity to prove themselves. He said their chance of making it big is in securing victory for Nigeria again on South African soil in January. Keshi recently invited more home-based players to camp ahead of the 2014 CHAN billed for South Africa in January, 2014.
“The invited home based players should know that everybody looks up to them now to prove their critics wrong and seriously challenge their foreign-based counterparts. I strongly believe that if they are able to prove themselves in the forth-coming CHAN, Keshi will have no choice than to play them in future international engagements.
Every coach takes note of great performances. Keshi’s era is witnessing a large invitation of domestic players. Players offered a lifeline this time in the Eagles forth-coming coming games are defenders Solomon Kwambe of Sunshine Stars and Benjamin Francis of Heartland FC.
Adepoju, who featured in the Saudi ’89 FIFA U-20 World Cup for Nigeria, howver, admonished Keshi not to lose focus on the players when the chips are down. “Well, if you ask me I would say Keshi has tried so far. I like his courage because for him to have reposed confidence in home-based players on assumption as the national coach is something to talk about.
Keshi, like others, having realised that there is need to look inwards is reaping the reward, especially now that many Nigerian football lovers have clamored for the use of home-based players to prosecute international matches. He is on the the right track and I have no doubt in my mind that he will succeed,” he concluded.
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