Newly appointed coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro says he is responsible for any bad result caused by mistake from a player he picked to be a part of his team.
Peseiro will take charge of his first game as coach of the senior national team of Nigeria in the early hours of tomorrow when Nigeria take on Mexico. The game is the first of two games the team will play in the United States of America.
They will take on Ecuador on the 2nd of June and ahead of the game. Talks have been about the first and second choice goalkeppers of the team who have been guilty of costly error in two high profile games.
Okoye was at fault for the goal which handed Tunisia a 1-0 win at the Africa Cup of Nations in the round of 16 which led to their exit. Uzoho didn’t fare any better in the World Cup playoff as he allowed a harmless shot roll under his body to hand Ghana the ticket to the World Cup.
The coach was asked by Germany based Nigerian journalist Oma Akatuga what he thinks about both goalkeppers in the light of attacks from supporters of the team.
“When they attack some players because they commit some mistake. In my opinion they didn’t commit big mistake. If any player commit a mistake and he doesn’t feel the protection from the coach and the staff like he should. He loses confidence”, he told Oma Sports TV.
“Shout is normal, kill all the players who commit mistakes. One day who are the players we will have to play? They most feel from me and the staff the confidence. Who is the one who is guilty? The coach or the player. It’s the coach everytime.
If I choose my players that will play. If I train them and I if I put in mind this guy can play well with our team. If he play bad or if he commits mistake. Who commits the mistake? The coach must accept the mistakes not the players”, he further said.
“Now we have Maduka, now Uzoho. Another mistake we change. Call another. For me I don’t do it. The other thing is the past not the present. For me all the players can play whether you commit mistakes or not before. For me everybody can play for our national team. Tomorrow you get to see which goalkepper is going to play.
” If one player play bad and bad and bad. What do you think the coach can do? Call the player. One mistake is enough to throw him out. One goalkepper 22, the other 23. I don’t think it’s the best”, he concluded.
