•Insists team needs sound coach, quality player leader
From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Nigerian former international, Eddy Ogenyi Onazi, has stirred up the hornet’s nest, by claiming that the current Super Eagles team is a composition of sharply divided players.
Onazi spoke to SportingSun in Abuja recently, insisting that the team is dominated by players with big boy mentality feeling arrogantly above the other, making it impossible for them to relate cordially with each other.
The former Trabzonspor Fc of Turkey and Lazio FC of Italy strong and athletic midfielder however recommended that the team urgently needs a very sound coach and a quality leader among the players to bring cordiality and restore peace in the team.
Accorfing to him; “Super Eagles right now parade one of the most talented sets of players. I believe that they need the right people to put them in order. Yes, of course, the team is relatively very young and they also need leadership in the team.
“They need somebody to put them on their toes. Talent is not enough and when you have a group of talented players like we have in the Super Eagles now, we need someone to control them.
“I was among the youngest when I joined the Super Eagles and it was always a privilege being among the big players. This is what the team is missing now. They are all big players and they don’t know who among them that should lead.
“During our days, if we have bigger players, we must respect them and respect ourselves. Now, everybody is almost the same.
This player cannot talk to the other player, everybody is feeling too big. That is why I said that they need a good leader,” Onazi insisted.