A member of the senior national team of Nigeria has hit back at comments made by former Super Eagles forward Daniel Amokachi in the wake of Nigeria’s failure to make it to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Amokachi was a pundit on television during the game against Ghana which ended in a 1-1 draw and saw Ghana progressed on the away goal rule after the first leg ended 0-0 in Kumasi.
While looking at the reason behind the failure of the Nigerian team, Amokachi faulted the high number of players born abroad in the team saying they lack proper knowledge of what the game mean to Nigerians since they weren’t born here.
His comments hasn’t gone down well with a member of the team and he has now come down heavy on the former Everton forward using his children who were also born abroad as reference.
” We see all Nigerians as one regardless of where they were given birth to. As a team we didn’t do enough to get the ticket it’s not about players born abroad. Amokachi who said so gave birth to his children abroad yet he tried to get them into the Nigeria youth team. Why didn’t they play for the country of their birth?”, He asked.
“By his logic. His children shouldn’t play for Nigeria. That is not the wisest thing to say because it even has so discriminatory undertone and it’s coming from someone who is a part of the cabinet of the federal government of Nigeria. That’s sad”, he concluded.
