It was with a pensive voice that
Super Eagles Head Coach,
Stephen Keshi announced on Friday morning that national team skipper,
Joseph
Yobo, has officially been ruled out of Jumbo June qualifiers for the
2014 World
Cup and 2013 Nations Cup by his club medics at Fernabahce, Turkey.
Medics
of his club, Fernabahce confirmed to Keshi that the
player who had a splendid season will be out for over a month, which
effectively rules him out of next month’s qualifiers .
The Big Boss, who himself skippered
the national team for
over a decade, emerging the longest serving national team captain, was
however
quick to pick himself up and declared that he felt pains missing his
captain
but there is no cause for alarm, as there are capable replacements.
He went ahead to list the
replacements thus: “Gege Soriola,
was splendid for Free State Stars in the South African league, Geofrey
Oboabona, plays that role regularly for Sunshine Stars, but we use him
here as
a full back and he can easily revert to that, then we have Kano Pillars’
Papa
Idris, who has been in excellent form for club and country, so we must
not
fret, we have the players to hold down the position until Yobo returns”,
he
said beaming with smiles.
Team Psychologist, Dr Robinson
Okosun, who was around when
Keshi was making his declaration, said he was personally overwhelmed by
the
swift mood, Keshi was able to list possible replacement for Yobo. “Some
other
coaches will still be scratching their heads, but because we have a man
who knows
his onions he has moved swiftly to douse tension in football circles”.
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