Coach of the Nigeria U17 team of 2013 Manu Garba says his major disappointment in his title winning squad is the trio of Isaac Success and Musa Yahaya.
Garba said he expected the trio to be integral players of the senior national team of Nigeria hence his disappointment at their progress since giving them their breakthrough at the U17 World Cup seven years ago.
The coach said the trio have not been lucky with senior football at club level and that has affected their chances with the senior national team of Nigeria after playing for the U17 and U20.
Yahaya hasn’t made the step up to the first team of Porto from the B team where he has spent the last three seasons while Success has failed to light it up since his move to Watford from Granada three years ago.
The captain of Garba’s U17 and U20 team Musa played three games for the senior national team of Nigeria but has been in the cooler no thanks to his patchy form at club level following a move to Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir in 2015.
“ I am happy for all the players I have handled who are earning a living from football but some should have progressed beyond where they are now at the moment”, the coach told Owngoalnigeria.com
“ Isaac Success, Musa Yahaya and Musa Mohammed have not made the kind of step up I expect from them but they are still young and they will likely come good in the career. That’s my prayer for them”.
Osas Mahawi
