Super Eagles Chief Coach, Sunday Oliseh yesterday
explained why he left out Chelsea of England
midfielder, John Mikel Obi from his list of players
invited for the forthcoming 2017 Africa Cup of
Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Tanzania. Oliseh
who revealed this at a media parley in Abuja said he
made several phone calls including text messages to
Obi’s number but he never responded to any
The former international who reluctantly spoke about
the issue of Obi revealed that he has no bias against
anybody adding that under him, the national team
will not favour or malign any Nigerian player.
“Well this issue is an enigma and we have been trying
to understand it but I am in the dark personally, and
with my assistants we spent time about 11 days in
and around Europe talking to players, watching
games. We contacted each of the players, call them
up, call the clubs and eventually met with the
players.
“I went to England on a Thursday and Chelsea was just
coming back, we had fixed our visit to coincide with
the end of their tour before they played Arsenal. I
contacted Obi Mikel, called him on phone four times,
the phone kept on ringing nobody picked it up, I sent
him an SMS and got no response. But I called Victor
Moses the phone rang three times and he picked it
up and I spoke with him, told him to concentrate on
his game.
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