Embattled Super Eagles goalkeeper Francis Uzoho, will be traveling to Ivory Coast for the 2023 African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) with the Nigeria npflupdates.com reports.
Nigeria coach José Peseiro Friday, released his final 25-man squad for the biennial tournament, and Uzoho made the list, despite call by Nigerians that he gets excluded from the national team.
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Canvassing support for the former Deportivo la Coruna shot-stopper, Super Eagles legend Taribo West pointed out some factors which may be the reason behind uzoho’s poor performances.
What Taribo West said about Francis Uzoho
According to the former AC Milan defender, Uzoho is a good goalie, which can come good with fans support.
“We don’t know the back story, we need to address the cause of the problem,” West who helped Olympic Eagles win gold in 1996 Olympics told Brila.
“Could be match fright, or anything. Francis(Uzoho) is not a bad Goalkeeper. I believe he had a good start,” he added.
In another story by PUNCH Taribo West called out the Nigeria government for failing to celebrate the hold winning Olympics team.
Per his statement, it was only former Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha that gave them one million Naira (N1,000,000).
“We have not been celebrated, apart from the time we came in with our medals from Atlanta and former military Head of State, Sani Abacha, held a reception for us in Abuja and gave a lot of money out, but I only saw N1m. From the competition in Atlanta in 1996 the only money that entered my account was N1m that I received personally from Abacha,” Taribo said.
“There were no houses given to us, the only thing we received was landed property that Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who was the Governor of Lagos State then, gave us.
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“I heard many other state governors gave us money but we did not see anything, the Nigeria Football Federation was just playing divide and conquer here and there, but when it came to them giving us the money, you won’t see anything. You will just read figures in the papers, but at the end of the day, you won’t see.”
