“I Regret Decision To Drop Brown Ideye From 2014 World Cup Squad” – Amokachi Reveals

Former Super Eagles striker and coach Daniel Amokachi has mentioned he regretted the choice of Super Eagles’ technical crew to drop Brown Ideye from the squad that represented Nigeria on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Against that backdrop, he warned coach Gernot Rohr, to not consider influences of soccer brokers, in choosing his crew checklist for the 2018 FIFA World Cup event.

Amokachi argued that exterior influences have all the time performed a giant position within the collection of the crew for main event just like the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations.

He advised Vanguard: “When the World Cup comes round, you all the time have a whole lot of new gamers exhibiting up. Players who will resolve that they’re Nigerians and convey confusion to the crew.

“When you end up in that state of affairs, you attempt to advise, as a result of you may have brokers that might be calling left, proper and centre.

“If a coach is an agent, he’ll fall a sufferer too. Those are issues that we actually must keep away from. There is not any room to be making an attempt new gamers.

“Brown (Ideye) for me, was one participant that I remorse that we didn’t take to the World Cup in 2014.

“Hundred p.c I didn’t know the way he didn’t make that checklist. I by no means noticed it coming that he didn’t make the checklist until when the checklist got here out and we discovered.

“I believe I most likely had a whole lot of fights with some people who I shouldn’t have, nevertheless it occurred as a result of I noticed no purpose why such a participant must be not noted.

We ended up going to the World Cup with gamers that even me I don’t even know,” Amokachi revealed talking for the primary time concerning the incident.