Nff waiting for keshi list

The technical committee of the Nigeria Football
Federation will today meet with Super Eagles
coach, Stephen Keshi over the provisional list of
the Nigerian squad for the Brazil 2014 World Cup.
The much anticipated meeting will see Keshi
defending his list of invited players for the Super
Eagles pre-World Cup camp. The technical
committee members are also to assure the coach
on their support for the World Cup campaign.
Keshi’s list has been shrouded in controversy over
his non-inclusion of Villarreal of Spain striker

Ikechukwu Uche but has the likes of Stoke City’s
Osaze Odemwingie and Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi of
Shalke O4 who has just started playing after a long
injury lay-off.
The meeting today, Sports Vanguard gathered, will
not be the last before the team leaves for England
to meet Scotland in another pre-World Cup
friendly.
NFF first Vice-President, Chief Mike Umeh said the
Executive Board will still meet to ratify whatever
decisions reached at the meeting between the
technical committee and the chief coach, Keshi.
Umeh said, “the board will meet with the technical
committee and the coach to harmonise whatever
decisions reached at Tuesday’s meeting.”
He disclosed that the board’s duty is to see how
to enhance the team’s performance at the World
Cup.
Umeh said the board meeting will come up soon.
“We have no time to waste. In fact, I am leaving for
Abuja tomorrow(today) as we are expected to meet
after the technical committee meeting,” Umeh said.
The NFF Vice President said Nigeria would perform
well, despite the statement by coach of Group F
opponent, Bosnia Herzegovina that Nigeria and Iran
will not qualify for the second round of the World
Cup.
“That is his wish. You can’t stop people from
saying whatever they want to say. We are not
worried about the statements or boasting remarks
of opponents but working hard to ensure the team
does well.”
On what the NFF is doing to ensure the team
prepares well for the Mundial, Umeh said, “since
we qualified for the tournament, we have not
stopped preparing. Remember we had a match
recently with Mexico. We are continuing
preparations with another match against Scotland
soon. We are ready.”