Super Eagles
coach Sunday Oliseh has finally laid to rest rumours that he does not see
eye-to-eye with his former assistant in the Eagles Austin Jay-Jay Okocha when
he said; ‘’yes, I hate Jay-Jay’’.
Oliseh and Okocha.
A reporter had
asked him to clear the air on rumours that he does not see or stay in the same
room with the former playmaker of the Super Eagles. The hall was like a
graveyard when he made the pronouncement. He looked round and explained
further. “I hate Okocha because anytime we play Tennis, he beats me.
We played at the weekend at Sheraton Hotel and he
defeated me’’. He made light of the rumour that started after he was appointed
coach of the senior national team. Many still believe that Okocha stabbed
Oliseh in the back when he accepted the captaincy of the Eagles to the 2002
World Cup.
‘’We’re the best
of friends and we played Tennis at the weekend’’, he emphasised. Okocha is
currently the Chairman of Delta State Football Association and Chairman of
NFF’s Study Group.
Speaking on the
Eagles, Oliseh said that he was going to make the Eagles to play team football
combined with individual talents. ‘’If you remember our victories in 1994 and
1996, it was based on individual talents. But we do not have such individual
talents again. What we need to do is to play collectively. That is what obtains
in Germany and Spain. It’s a lot of hardwork. We’re here to do our best’’, he
added.
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