The Nigerian Press has advocated for the inclusion of the former Real Zaragoza, Getafe man in the Coach Stephen Keshi’s plan, but the ex-Togo and Mali boss has continued to insist that the fair-skinned goal machine won't be a part of his team to the Mundial
The issue of inviting the in-form Villarreal has dominated the sporting press for the past two months with Keshi himself dubbing the skilful forward an indiscipline component.
“Ikechukwu Uche is not a player I have not seen play. Ike Uche’s problem is not knowing how to play football. His problem is that he wants to dictate how we play in the Super Eagles. He wants to tell us the system we’re playing is not good.”
“Uche has a very bad habit, that if you put him in the game he is not playing to instructions and he did that in the final of AFCON against Burkina Faso, he almost cost us that match,” Keshi said.
“It is a clear case of self-shooting for any coach to shut the door against a player as good as Uche, although I would still concede to Keshi as the man in charge who takes responsibility for his actions,” the former technical director of the then Nigeria Football Association revealed.
“However, if it is for sporting reason on account of fitness, I would gladly accept the player’s exclusion. But it is for indiscipline as alleged by the coach, I would disagree totally because there is no undisciplined player that is beyond managing by a coach.
Laloko cited AC Milan forward, Mario Balotelli, as a player with proven disciplinary record but who was still built as the cornerstone of Italy’s national team, wondering why Keshi would not mould Uche only on account of the latter’s talent.
“Every country takes its best in-form players to the World Cup and I do not know why ours should be different,” he reckoned.
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