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Oliseh: Enyeama, Mikel, Moses tried to sabotage my effort
Former Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh has accused Vincent Enyeama, John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses of betrayal during his reign as the Super Eagles coach saying the trio sabotaged his effort during the 2017 AFCON qualifiers.
“I went to London to see Mikel and Moses but could only see Moses as Mikel did not reply my calls & we could not get a hold of him.
“Most players reported to camp on Monday prior to the Tanzania game, Vincent Enyeama was supposed to fly in Tuesday morning, only for me to be surprisingly informed via SMS that he was skipping the game because he lost the mum some weeks earlier.
“I called him up and made an agreement with him, as I needed not only my captain and such a good goalkeeper for my opening game, that if he came for the game on Friday I would release him to go to the village after the game and skip the friendly game versus Niger scheduled for three days later after the Tanzania encounter, which he agreed.
“The team was scheduled to fly out on Thursday. On Wednesday afternoon Enyeama called to say he was not coming for the game, definitively. I was shocked as we had an agreement; we needed his experience, leadership…”
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