Speaking with The Guardian yesterday, Izilien said the decision by the NFF to expose the local players was good, but the execution was poor. “The players were hurriedly assembled within one week to face Mexico and we ended up ridiculing ourselves before the international community. You don’t just wake up and assemble local players to face a great football-playing nation like Mexico. “None of my friends in the U.S. believe that the team was not the real Super Eagles. And this is already recorded in the history books that Mexico beat Nigeria 4-0 in an international friendly in the U.S.,” he lamented.

Source: The Guardian July 07, 2021 03:45 UTC