A former Super Eagles Captain Christian Chukwu is not convinced the current team has what it takes to execute the 2023 African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) npflupdates.com reports.
Christian Chukwu was part of the Super Eagles team that won Nigeria’s first ever African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) title, back in 1980.
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The defender expressed his concerns as a guest on the Channels Television programme, “Channels Sports Sunday.”
In his opinion, Christian Chukwu opined that Nigeria’s coach, Jose Peseiro domicile in Nigeria; stressing that it will enable him develop a good team that comprise of a reasonable amount of homebased players.
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The 1980 AFCON winner 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,” Chuwku was quoted by PUNCH Nigeria.
“Let’s come back home, all those playing overseas are good players. They have the opportunities, we have those players back home who are equally good but they don’t have that opportunity to go abroad and play and if you come here and discover them, let you be their manager and then expose them to the Europe people. We have players who are very good, better than the foreign-based players but they don’t have the opportunity.”
Speaking further Chukwu said, “You have to come home and discover them and train them. I am not saying they should not be mixed with the foreign-based. Invite the foreign-based but give the home-based opportunity. They are the ones you can use to get anything you want to get.
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“As far as I am concerned we don’t have a national team now because even our coaches stay abroad. He comes with the players to come and play and travel again. He should come and reside here, let us work together. We are ready to help him with whatever he wants to achieve.”
Christian Chukwu after his retirement from active football, ventured into football management. And was one time the head coach of the Super Eagles.
