Amokachi Slams Foreign-Born Players For Super Eagles Failure To Qualify For Qatar 2022 World Cup


Daniel Amokachi believes the Super Eagles need to develop more home-grown stars like the Atlanta 96 & AFCON 2013 squads.

Former Super Eagles striker Daniel Amokachi has blamed Nigeria’s failure to make the Qatar 2022 World Cup on the quality of players invited to the National team.
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Amokachi believes that the National team selectors invite average dual-citizenship players just because they were born outside the country.

The 49-year-old went further to say that those players would not even make the squads for their birth countries.

Amokachi said: “Quality-wise we can’t take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he’ll always come up and say I turned down my birth country.

“I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won’t even make their birth nation squads.”

The former Super Eagles striker pointed out that home-grown stars were a huge part of the Atlanta ’96 squad and the Stephen Keshi-led 2013 squad that won the AFCON.

“Unfortunately for us Nigeria, we’ve thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympics gold medal, that made that generation so great,” Amokachi explained.

“Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.”

The Super Eagles of Nigeria crashed out of qualification for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup after losing the ticket to the Black Stars of Ghana.



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