There has been a whole lot of talks regarding the statement made by the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Finidi George on the issue of the captain of the team, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Finidi stirred a little controversy during his media tour when he said the issue of the captain of the team is going to be who is the oldest in the team, which many interpreted to be Kenneth Omeruo the vice captain to the present one William Troost-Ekong.
“That of the captainship we all know it. From my time till date is based on seniority. The most senior player in the team has always been the captain those that have been there before you will definitely have the opportunity to be the captain before you that is just coming”, he said and made reference to ex international Ifeanyi Udeze who was with him in the studio during the interview.
“Like Udeze here he met me in camp then, no way he can be captain when I am still around unless we decide and reach an agreement with the older player to make the younger player captain.
” For a young guy that is just coming up thinking that he will be the captain of the Super Eagles that will not work in my time. The status quo will be maintained”.
His statement opened a lot of interpretatios but yesterday he laid the issue to rest in another station where he went in continuation of his media tour.
“There are things I cannot change. I played this game and was also the vice-captain, I was not the youngest. If we want(ed) to go by oldest players, I think (Sunday) Oliseh wouldn’t have been the captain. That’s the truth because this Super Eagles, I started in 1989 while I was playing, he came 1993. So, if you go by that, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be captain”, he explained.
“Looking at the present squad, we have to see those that are older, capable. We are not stripping captaincy from Ekong because the reports say ‘Finidi wants to strip Ekong’. I cannot do that, Ekong is our captain, Omeruo is also captain, Musa is captain, he’s not around, Ekong not around,” he concluded.
