The Nigeria boss who opted to withdraw the football player from his preliminary squad for the competition, along with six other players, said lack of fighting spirit contributed to Sunday Mba’s omission from Nigeria’s FIFA World Cup squad.
Alongside Victor Obinna, Mba was perhaps the most high-profile casualty with the midfielder occupying a place in Nigerian football history due to his winning goal in the Africa Cup of Nations final last year.
Mba had been late to Nigeria’s training camp due to a visa hitch but Keshi also revealed his disappointment at a lack of hunger from the CA Bastia man.
Keshi, said Mba's lateness to camp contributed to his missing out but outside that he did not show the hunger, the fight, he expected of him, stressing that in next than two weeks to the World Cup, Mba was not giving the team's technical crew what they wanted
Nigeria open their World Cup campaign against Group G rivals Iran on June 16.
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