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Former Super Eagles winger, Tijani
Babangida, has advised the Super Eagles coaching crew not to be overly
reliant on Emmanuel Emenike in the country’s quest for sustained glory.
The Atlanta ’96 Olympic football gold
medal winner for Nigeria was the ‘Legend of the Night’ at the Heineken
Champions Planet during the second leg semi-final match of the UEFA
Champions League on Wednesday. He told a gathering of invited guests and
consumers that as
a former footballer, frequent injury to a player
always has a lingering psychological effect. He wished Emenike could get
back as soon as possible but in his absence, he cautioned that Nigeria
must face the challenge of finding a suitable replacement for the
crucial matches next month.
Emenike, who had been on the side lines
since the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations, returned to club
action on Sunday. However, the attacker sustained fresh injury to his
internal meniscus and partial damage to the internal lateral ligament of
the knee.
“We are in a precarious situation for
the World Cup qualifying matches, with the FIFA Confederations Cup in
Brazil also in June. Having won the AFCON early this year, we have to
sustain a high standard at the global level. Nigeria is blessed with
potential from where we must find a replacement pending the return of
Emenike. Becoming over-reliant on Emenike will equate us to a tag
similar to the ‘No Messi, No Barcelona’ that the Catalan giants are
currently living with now,” Babangida said.
Babangida was on his second visit to the
Heineken Champions Planet and was delighted to be in the near-stadium
environment that was created by the sponsor of the Champions League.
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