Enyeama urges Nigerians to pray for Nigerian football

Enyeama, who was handed the skipper’s band by Head Coach, Stephen Keshi in the absence of injured Joseph Yobo, said this in an interview in Calabar on Saturday. He said that although it would not be an easy match, Super Eagles had the quality to beat the brave warriors of Namibia in Sunday’s 2014 World […]

Enyeama, who was handed the skipper’s band by Head Coach, Stephen Keshi in the absence of injured Joseph Yobo, said this in an interview in Calabar on Saturday.

He said that although it would not be an easy match, Super Eagles had the quality to beat the brave warriors of Namibia in Sunday’s 2014 World Cup qualifier at the U.J. Esuene Stadium.

“I am one of those guys who do not talk of expectations because when you have expectations, you are promising what you are not so sure of.

“Nigerians should pray for us because it is a new team that we are trying to build; it is not going to be easy. There is no push over in football now.

“We are going to try but the most important thing is to get the three points needed in all our matches to push through.

“We have to try with the help of God to get the three points and try at the same time to give Nigerians the football they are craving for.

Enyeama said that the team was going through a rebuilding process and urged Nigerians to be patient with the coaches.

He stressed that the coaches were doing their best and ‘very good work’, by bringing in home base players and foreign base ones at the same time.

Enyeama, who currently plays with Lille FC of France, said that he was worried about the dwindling fortunes of Nigerian football.

“I am worried that Nigerian players and football have gone down and every Nigerian player, soccer players will be worried that we not achieve something big in the recent years.

“We are disturbed, we are worried and we want to change it, we want to rewrite history with Nigerians.

“The three games we have ahead, we do not care what it is, Nations Cup or World Cup, whatever; but we will take the games the way they come.”

Enyeama lauded respective governments’ commitment to the development of football in Nigeria and the Super Eagles.

He said that Federal and States Governments had been amazing in supporting the team and pushing the team through.

“They have really done great, marvelously well, amazingly well, they have been taking football by the neck and they really have done well handling it. Big kudos to them,” he said. (NAN)