Super Eagles hero at the
2013 Africa Nations Cup Emmanuel Emenike yesterday berated his coach Stephen
Keshi and the Nigeria Football Federation for allegedly leaving him to his fate
after he suffered an injury while fighting for Nigeria to win the tournament in
South Africa.
Emenike suffered a muscle
tear in the semi-final match against Mali and according to him, nobody from the
NFF has bothered to check on his recovery. Emenike was missing from the list of
Super Eagles players invited for the World Cup qualifier against Kenya next
weekend.
“I must be honest with
you, I have not been treated well by the coach and the NFF because they ignored
me so soon, so fast,” he lamented.
“Nobody from NFF and the
coach have called to ask me about my injury. I am bitter about this. It is
unfair and I can tell you that is why some players don’t come to give their
best for the national team.” “When a player gets injured on national duty, I
think the country’s football authority and coach ought to keep in touch to let
him know he is loved and cared for.
“I am not a use-and-dump
player. I will not act as one at all because my club career is very much
important to me than anything.”
He added: “Look at a
player like (Victor) Anichebe (Everton striker was injured while on national
team duty last year), no one cared about him and you think he will come to
national team to give his best.
“I am not worried about
that but I just need to tell them it’s unfair. It is not everything that is
money, but a call just to show you care could change someone’s problem at a
particular time.”
Emenike told
MTNFootball.com that this is in sharp contrast to his Russian club Spartak
Moscow, who have done everything to get him back playing again. “I
must give kudos to my club for taking good care of me even though I didn’t get
the injury while playing for them,” he said.
“I can’t wait to return
to my best form. I feel like playing and banging in the goals for my club right
now. “I am happy with my rehabilitation and I will start joggling soon and I
believe I will respond well because I have missed the game so much.”
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