Papa’s Under 23 Misadventure Shocks Keshi

After watching his super display in the two friendlies he has played so far for the national team, Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi was lost for words when he learnt that the player was one of those dropped from the ill-fated Under 23 team that failed to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics during the Moroccan play-off.

When told by Assistant Coach Dan Amokachi, that the player was dropped from the Under 23 squad, Keshi was furious and had to send team curator, Chidi Ngoka, to go and fetch the player to authenticate the fact.

Papa, was to confirm to ‘Big Boss’, after which the former Anderletch of Belgium libero watched in disbelieve. Keshi, was in Morocco , to offer technical assistance to old pal, Austin Eguavoen, and said then that the team lacked quality players. “So if we drop a player of the quality of Papa how can the team do well”, he asked nobody in particular.

The Kaduna United central defender, has become one of the mainstay of the national team just after spending two nights in camp.

Drawing applause from team backroom, with names like ‘General’, ‘Commander’, ‘Mr Perfect’, etc being ascribe to him.