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Players Offer Bribe to Play For Super Eagles’ – Clemens Westerhof
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Former Super Eagle’s coach, Clemens Westerhof, describe the Men’s senior national team as ‘Super corrupt’ in a chat with Supersports.com, he raise allegation that some of the players who didn’t merit a spot in the Super Eagles, bribe the coaches in order to be selected.
“We had a situation where we had the wrong people in the wrong places, even in the (Nigeria) FA,” Westerhof said.
“We had cases where players paid money to the coach and said ‘I want to play for the national team’ and the coach would accept. They bought their way into the national team and it was an unbelievable situation. Very sad. I know these things,” Westerhof added.
Westerhof who led Nigeria to the 1994 Nations Cup triumph in Tunisia and also a memorable out at the 1994 World Cup in USA.
He praised the present Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, from such accusations,saying that players are now been invited on merit.
“My captain (Keshi) is there now and you can see the changes because he selects the right people.
“Nigeria beat Liberia 6-1 in a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier and outclassed Venezuela (in an international friendly earlier this month). The results come because players are now selected on merit”.
“If Keshi can manage to hold that group together things will get even better. If there is discipline everywhere; the players sleep in time and live like professionals, work like professionals and think like professionals and even go to the toilet like a professional, then you will see Nigeria will come back,” he added.
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