Uche out of world cup list

IKECHUKWU Uche, who former Super
Eagles’ Coach, Samson Siasia, describes
as Nigeria’s current best striker, will not
be in Stephen Keshi’s Brazil 2014 World
Cup team because he ‘lacks tactical
discipline.’
Uche has been Nigeria’s most reliable
goal scorer in the last two seasons and
has scored 12 goals this term for
Villarreal.
On Monday night, the striker returned to
action after he was sidelined by injury for
two weeks. He last featured for Nigeria in
the final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
against Burkina Faso.

According to MTNFootball.com, Keshi
said from his base in the United States
that, “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 Super Eagles, he wants to
tell us the system we are 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.
“Again he did that against Zambia, in the
second match when (Efe) Ambrose was
given a red card. What we told him to do,
he was doing the opposite.”
Keshi added, “and if you don’t respect
your team mates and you don’t respect
the team, then there is no point. I know he
cannot do that in his club, then why do it
in the national team?
“I don’t think I need a player like that in
the team.”
When Keshi first hinted of his intention to
drop Uche from his World Cup team,
Siasia had urged him to reconsider his
decision, as he thinks the Villarreal player
is the best Nigerian goal scorer.
Siasia, who expressed his delight over
Uche’s form this season, insisted that the
30-year-old has no equals among the
strikers Keshi currently picks.
Saying it was wrong to judge Uche
based on his performance at the South
Africa 2013 Nations Cup, Siasia added,
“the truth is that we should know that a
player cannot be on fire every time.”
“But we know that if we want to pick five
good Nigerian strikers for the Super
Eagles, Ike must be there. He is that
deadly striker in front of the goal.”