Super Eagles Star Unimpressed With How Nigeria’s National Football Team Is Being Handled

• Ogenyi Onazi has made it clear that the Nigerian national football team has lost structure and needs to be stabilised
• The Super Eagles performed poorly at the 2021 AFCON tournament and also failed to qualify for the 2022 Fifa World Cup
• According to Onazi, players just stroll in and out of the national team during the time of ousted manager Gernot Rohr

Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onazi is clearly not impressed with the way the Nigerian national team is being run.

The former Lazio of Italy star stated that Nigeria needs to concentrate more on stabilising the national team following the not-too-impressive results in recent times.

Nigeria failed to go past the second round in the 2021 AFCON tournament and also failed to qualify for the World Cup, Own Goal reports.

According to Onazi, the Nigerian national team no longer has value as players just stroll in and out of the squad with little or no meaningful contribution.

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In an interview shared by Oma Akatugba on Twitter, Onazi said:

“For me, I think as a nation and as a federation, we need to concentrate more on how to stabilize out team. As we speak now, the national team does not even have a structure.

“When Gernot Rohr was still in charge of the team, we don’t have a structure because you bring people to the national team today, you bring a different set of people tomorrow - and see different sets of people next tomorrow.

“The national team doesn’t have value. People just stroll to the national team and stroll out. We don’t have like…a symbol of a national team.”

Nigeria drop in the latest Fifa ranking

Meanwhile, the Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped one spot in the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday morning, June 23.

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Formerly occupying the 30th position, the Nigerian national football team are now the 31st in the world, but they maintain their status as the fourth-best team in Africa.

Jose Peseiro guided the team to back-to-back victories in the African Cup of Nations qualifier following a 2-1 win over Sierra Leone in Abuja and then a 10-0 trouncing of Sao Tome and Principe in Morocco.

Mikel advises Peseiro not to invite too many players to the national team

Sports Brief earlier reported that John Obi Mikel has hailed the quality of the present set of players in the Super Eagles team and believes a strong core of the national team can be built with the current team.

Mikel, who retired from the national team in 2019 after guiding Nigeria a bronze medal at the 2019 AFCON beckoned on the national team coached led by Jose Peseiro to find a way to work together as a unit.

The former Chelsea midfielder also advised Jose Peseiro not to invite too many new players into the Super Eagles as they need to stop experimenting and start building a solid team.