By Taofeek Babalola
El Kanemi Warriors technical adviser,
Ladan Bosso has urged the national team coach, Gernot Rohr to give Mountain of Fire and
Miracle Ministries (MFM) striker, Stephen Odey a chance in the Super Eagles.
Odey is the leading top scorer in the
Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) with twelve goals to his credit in
the 15-week-old league.
Bosso told Sportinglens.blogspot.com that he was
surprised that the young star was not invited for the super Eagles friendly
matches against Senegal and Burkina Faso.
“Stephen Odey is doing well in the
NPFL now and he is not being considered for ordinary friendly matches (against
Senegal and Burkina Faso). His non-invitation to the Super Eagles is surprising
to me. If Odey were to be a foreign player he would have been a hot-cake by
now. If good players in the league are not being considered for the national
team, so how do you want to encourage such players?,” Bosso said to
Sportinglens.blogspot.com.
“The same thing happened when I was
Wikki Tourists coach, Babale Ibrahim was the highest goals scorer in the league
for three seasons (2005, 2006, 2007) consecutively and nobody deemed it fit to
invite him to the national team until he got injured when he moved to Sunshine
Stars. As a highest goal scorer, he never scored goals from the penalty unlike
what we are witnessing these days when 75 per cent of the goals scored by our
top scorer were through penalty. The guy was just allowed to be wasted away
without making use of his talent. I think there must be a change of attitude
towards local players by the national team handlers.”
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