The captain of the senior national team of Nigeria Ahmed Musa has reacted to the decision of head coach of the team Eric Chelle to hand him a recall after over a year out of the team, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Musa was handed a recall by Chelle for the upcoming Unity Cup friendly tournament in England, but not for the friendly game against Russia on the 7th of June. It will be the first time he is involved since the last AFCON under former coach Jose Peseiro.
“I am always happy when I get the call up and I am happy to be back. To me it has been a very long time but I don’t think there is any difference”, he said in an interview made public by the team’s media.
He was coy on his chances of getting to play in the team’s opening game tomorrow against Ghana. “We just wait and see on the day of the game to see what is going to happen. As you can see a lot of home based boys are in the team. The coach watched a lot of games in the Nigerian League.I feel very happy for them so let’s see what will happen in the game tomorrow.
On what the team really need at the moment, Musa called on Nigerians to back the team despite the fact that they are not entirely satisfied with their performance. “We know that a lot of Nigerians are very disappointed in the Super Eagles, but I will always call on them to keep supporting us because that is what we need right now. There support will make a very good impact for us”, he concluded.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
