2010 World Cup: FG Equips S’Eagles Players, Officials

The Nigerian Government has provided all that the Super Eagles players and officials need to participate in the forthcoming 2010 World Cup in South Africa, former Super Eagles captain, Austin J.J. Okocha has disclosed.

Okocha hinted during an interview with The Tide at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa that the Federal Government has fully played its part by providing all the players and officials want in terms of finance and equipment to enable them go for the World Cup tournament.

Okocha who was in Port Harcourt to attend a meeting of the Presidential Task Force for the 2010 South Africa World Cup noted that “this is the first time nobody is complaining of anything because the players and officials have gotten all they want”.

He added: “they have got all they asked for and they are well equipped. They have been given all what they ought to be given”, pointing out that they were in England for a friendly football match that would determine their level of performance at the World Cup in South Africa.

According to him, “we hope they will do what they can and we will know if they have improved but I believe that the technical adviser and the players will do a good job and they are preparing in the right way and manner and hopefully they will make us proud.”

He observed that largerback has prepared the Super Eagles as a team but, however, was pesmistic about their ability to lift the trophy at the end of the World Cup.

His words; “He has prepared the team but we are yet to witness what they can do. But I feel it’s a mission impossible and to be honest, for Nigeria to lift the trophy is more of a wish than a reality but we Nigerians wish to see it happen.”

The former Super Eagles captain was of the view that Nigerians always have that complex of not winning, pointing out that “we should realise that we have a lot of potentiaties in football!

He stated that for Nigeria to achieve its dream in football, “it is hight time we started working on our grassroot football and believe in them.”

Shedie Okpara