Blame me if Eagles fail, says Oliseh

 Super Eagles Chief Coach Sunday Oliseh yesterday
defended his 17-man list of foreign based players,
stating that he will take responsibility if the team
fails to get a favourable result in the 2017 Africa Cup
of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Tanzania on
September 6.
Many analysts have been picking holes on the list
which excluded some of the in-form players including
 Watford of England forward, Odion Ighalo but
included some relatively unknown players invited.
Addressing the sporting press in Abuja, Oliseh who
was accompanied by his assistants insisted that he
selected the team based on a lot of factors including
current form and expected individual contributions
to the qualification of the country for the continental
fiesta.
“Well it is not you that will take responsibility if
anything happens, I will, but I don’t know about
understanding or not understanding the list. The list
is there but I think it is the coaching crew that will
decide who is going to play, we can make the list and
send it out to the whole of Nigeria and say look send
in your own vote, it is not a reality show, it is a
football game.
Personally as far as we are concerned we have
worked very hard to put this list together and let me
say that everybody is a Nigerian, nobody has a
preferential treatment, if you’re invited you
play.” Also speaking about the goal keeping area,
goalkeepers trainer, Aloy Agu said the goalkeepers
invited including team captain, Vincent Enyeama all
have the experience to give a good account of
themselves during the match.
On the need to invite younger goalkeepers to
understudy Enyama who has given his retirement
signal, Agu said; “if you look at the list, Akpeyi is
there, we cannot bring everybody in at the same
time, it is one after the other and at this moment in
time, we also need experience because when you
want to build a solid future you also need experience
for people to understudy, Karl is doing well and at
this point in time we need people that are doing well
so that we can get the result we are looking for. In as
much as we want young goalkeepers to come in, we
also need to tap from the wealth of experience of
the older keepers.”