11 months ago
79 Former Super Eagles forward, Brown Ideye has blasted Jose Peseiro for including 25 players in his final squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
Peseiro had the chance to include 27 players in his squad, but instead opted for 25.
The Portuguese has now been forced to reshuffle his squad with injuries to the trio of Wilfred Ndidi, Victor Boniface and Umar Sadiq.
Ideye expressed disappointment with the composition of the squad.
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“We’re just unlucky that we have most of our key players injured, that’s one reason CAF ask teams to submit 27 names because they know things like this can happen. But what we did? We went with 25, we literally shot our self on the foot,” Ideye wrote on his X handle.
“Kelechi Iheanacho is not 100% fit they know that before submitting the list to CAF, Umar Sadiq came to the camp injured they know that. But you can still back up all this injured players by submitting 27 to 30 names some will be on standby just in case of injuries.
“Some of this players they’re calling to join the camp don’t have nothing to offer the team, they’re there to replace a injured player so the mindset is not the same as a player on the 25 mans list they submitted to CAF, so don’t expect miracles from them.”
“You want to put all your hopes on one player, don’t forget football is a team sport and he will need the team to assist he to have a very good tournament, He can’t do it alone.
“Someone wrote me yesterday that we can’t go pass the group stage, i don’t believe that. i just feel we can’t win it this year because we don’t have all what it takes to win it this year.”
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