The senior national team of Nigeria returned to training yesterday after skipping a session over unpaid bonuses for the first four games of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, OwnGoalNigeria.com.
Yesterday after getting assurance from top officials of the National Sports Commission (NSC) and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the team returned to training and had a one and half hour session.
All eyes were on the team’s top striker Victor Osimhen after his bust up with fellow striker Ademola Lookman, during the course of the 4-0 win over Mozambique in the round of 16.
Osimhen cut a lone figure for most of the session, after missing out on a chance to tender a public apology to his teammates as expected by many. However his teammates don’t appear to be bothered.
” You people are just overreacting. Osimhen is like that even in training so it’s nothing new to the rest of the team. It’s in his nature to be that explosive but it’s nothing serious”, a player in the team said.
” As a new player in the team, the other senior players told us about similar incidents in the past which was amicably resolved. To you people outside it’s a big issue, but here we see it as normal because it happens almost every time”, he stated.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
