Ex-Super Eagles captain and legend, Christian Chukwu, on Sunday, decried the state of Nigeria’s national football team, Super Eagles, saying that the nation doesn’t “have a national team now,” while the home-based players lack the opportunities to grow.
He opined that the team coach, Jose Peseiro, should be based in the country, and that would enable him to discover local talents and train them to become better players, rather than coming from abroad to train the players for a match and then travelling back.
Chukwu expressed his concerns as a guest on the Channels Television programme, ‘Channels Sports Sunday.’
The former team captain said, “Our coach should come and stay with us in Nigeria. We have a lot of talents in Nigeria, in our local league and when you don’t camp and train them and forget about this we have a match, we come on Thursday, they train on Friday, they play on Saturday and they disperse again. We don’t have a team.
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