Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has dropped four football players ahead of the 2013 African Nations Cup in South Africa.
The players are Rizespur of Turkey striker, Uchenna Kalu, Rabiu Ibrahim who recently moved from Celtic in the Scottish Premier League to Kilmanock FC, Enyimba’s Henry Uche and Papa Idris of Kano Pillars.
The players left camp on Monday for their various club sides and Nigeria.
Head Coach Stephen Keshi had duringSunday's training session hinted that some of the players would be dropped as he admonished the affected players to take it in good faith,adding that the team's technical crew has to prune the number of Eagles players in camp ahead of the African soccer fiesta.
The team's technical crew assured them that they were still part of the team and would be recalled once the team returns from the Nations Cup championship and starts hostilities in the World Cup qualifiers.
The affected players appreciated the sincerity and fatherly disposition of the coaching crew and promised to keep their heads high at the various club sides to earn future recall to the national team.
One of the affected football players, Uchenna Kalu said he was personally pained that injury denied him a place in the team and promised to bounce back in the coming months for the national team.
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