Yobo To Return To Eagles, Soon – Keshi

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has reiterated that captain Joseph Yobo will return to the national team sooner rather than later.

Reports in the media this week suggested that the coach had ruled the defender out of the national team, but Keshi was quick to pour cold water on the suggestion.

“He is like a younger brother to me and I want the best for him, but there seems to be a desperate bid to create a war between me and my captain and I will always reject that because he remains one of Nigeria’s big football players and we cannot rush him out just like that,” Keshi says.

Yobo has been frozen out of the team since the African Nations Cup win in February and has engaged in a verbal media exchange with Keshi over his exclusion. But the coach has made it clear Yobo remains the national team captain.

Keshi also took the opportunity to warn off attempts to create discord between him and his employers.

“When I speak about the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), it’s convenient for people to misquote me, to create crisis between me and my employers but I had never had any problem with them and they have said so.

“The Aminu Maigari led NFF board has been more than supportive of the team we have on ground and nobody should say otherwise just to create sensation.

“There are channels of communications in the NFF and the Super Eagles?and if information do not come though those channels they should be disregarded.”