Super Eagles Celebrates Mediocrity, Lacks Quality – Sunday Oliseh (Video)

Sunday Oliseh has lamented the fallen profile of the Nigerian Super Eagles, saying that the current Super Eagles now lack quality compared to the team that won the Olympics in 1996.

Oliseh said unlike his playing days, the present Super Eagles side can only boast of a handful of players featuring for top-flight European clubs.

“The demands that we have; the qualification that you have before you can play for the Super Eagles; the bar has been reduced,”

“We as a nation are now happy with mediocrity. We celebrate even third place in Africa. When you are Nigerian, you are the best. You don’t celebrate even second.”

‘The Best Has To Play’

While recalling how he felt when the West African side lost the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final to Cameroon, he said playing for Nigeria should be a thing of pride, insisting that the best have to be picked for national assignments.

“That is why when I coached Super Eagles, the first thing I told them was ‘If you are not playing in the first division anywhere in the world, forget Super Eagles’ because the best has to play here,” the 1996 Olympic gold medalist added.

Nigeria’s 1996 Olympics Gold-Winning Team

In the past, Oliseh noted that Nigerian players faced one another in the UEFA Champions League, but admitted that the situation is not the same presently, singling out Leicester City midfield enforcer, Wilfred Ndidi as one of the few doing well at the moment.

“We don’t have a lot of top players playing at the top level at the moment,” the Delta-born ex-footballer explained. “In fact, the most solid player we have now is Wilfred Ndidi because he has got a lot as a player. ”

Nigeria are billed to face the Crocodiles of Lesotho at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on March 30, 2021, the first time the three-time African champions will be playing a competitive game in the city in 20 years.

He also revealed that he is about to release his Auto-Biography titled “The Audacity to refuse” in April, 2021.

Below is the video of his interview;

Source: Chanels