Players of the Super Eagles of Nigeria have agreed to sheath their swords and return to training after boycotting the morning session over a disagreement on their bonuses, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
The players refused to honour the traditional pre match conference with coach Gernot Rohr left alone to face the media and they subsequently didn’t turn up for training ahead of tomorrow’s game against Guinea.
Talks over the bonus started this morning and all efforts to persuade the players to return to training proved abortive and they head back to their rooms after a meeting where they decided on not honouring the Guinea game if they don’t get the money before the end of today.
However around 30 minutes ago, captain of the team John Obi Mikel rallied them for another meeting and pleaded with them to return to training for the sake of the nation and their teeming fans back home.
Mikel also told them that he spoke with a very high placed government official in Nigeria who confirmed to him that the payments will be made on Friday due to the fact that they need to convert the money from Naira to Dollars.
Shortly after his address, the players agreed to resume training and as at the time of filing in this report they are already on their way to the training pitch in preparation for their next group game.
