Because the Tremendous Eagles’ camp opens this Monday in Uyo, forward of their double-fixtures within the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, a former captain of the aspect, Sunday Ogorchukwu Oliseh, has warned the gamers about what they stand to lose in the event that they fail to select a ticket to the Mundial.
Sports247 studies that the Eagles lie fourth on their group’s qualification desk forward of this Saturday’s residence fixture versus Rwanda and away to South Africa on September ninth, thereby making each matches must-win video games for Eric Chelle’s workforce.
Nonetheless, with South Africa prime of the group on 13 factors, with each of their upcoming video games slated for Bloemfontein, they’re certain to stay forward of Nigeria, even when FIFA finally deducts three factors from their haul, thereby leaving the Eagles empty-handed once more.
Oliseh took a more in-depth take a look at the tight situation and identified that essentially the most telling impact of Nigeria failing to qualify for the second straight World Cup in a row can be very low rankings for the nation’s gamers within the worldwide switch window.
He recounted, “Previously, if you spoke about prime golf equipment that you simply watched week in week out, we noticed Kanu Nwankwo taking part in in Arsenal and Jay Jay shining at Paris Saint-Germain.
“We noticed Taribo West doing his factor at Inter Milan and later at AC Milan. We additionally noticed Finidi George and Babangida at Ajax; whereas I used to be personally at Borussia Dortmund, Ajax and Juventus.”
Oliseh, who additionally starred for AC Regianna in Italy in addition to VfL Bochum in Germany and was a part of Nigeria’s first World Cup workforce at USA ’94, after which he featured within the Atlanta ’96 Olympic Video games gold medal-winning under-23 squad, identified that the Eagles’ poor outcomes lately have blocked profitable switch gives for the nation’s gamers.
“We had gamers that you simply noticed week in week out at prime golf equipment or taking part in within the Champions League. Now now we have none. Why is that taking place? It’s easy … our nationwide workforce is now not performing. Good golf equipment purchase gamers primarily based in your nationwide workforce’s performances,” Oliseh argued.
‘The Passmaster’ concluded by making solutions on the way in which ahead, affirming how the development can change, as he confused: “In case you do properly on the World Cup, prime golf equipment will eye you, as a result of that’s the barometer for gamers’ transfers
