Former
Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh has fingered goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, current
captain John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses as key figures that tried to derail him
during his time as the Super Eagles coach.
Oliseh had a misunderstanding with Mikel soon after he came on
as Keshi’s replacement last July and also fell out with Enyeama at a training
camp in Belgium.
Speaking on some of the events that transpired during his short
reign as the Nigeria coach, Oliseh suggested that Mikel and Enyeama tried to
sabotage him, while also berating Moses for not showing enough commitment to
him.
“My first official act was to call the team Captain Vincent
Enyeama to rub minds and fix an appointment to see him. Same act was accorded
to John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses of Chelsea. All except for Obi Mikel picked
up my call and Mikel even ignored my eventual sms,” Oliseh wrote on his
personal website.
“Went to London to see Mikel & Moses but could only see
Moses as Mikel did not reply my calls & we could not get a hold of him.
“Moses came 2 ½ half hours late to our meeting but none the less
we had a productive talk in company of my assistant, Jean Francois Losciuto.”
Writing further about his first few weeks on the job, Oliseh claims
both Moses and Enyeama turned their backs on him at the time he was in dire
need of their services
“Three weeks to my first official game in charge of the Super
Eagles, vs Tanzania, and the invitations were sent out to the clubs, 2 weeks to
the game Victor Moses opted out citing fear of contracting an injury whilst
playing for Nigeria in favour of his club via a written letter to the Team
manager of the Super Eagles.
“Most
players reported to camp on Monday prior to the Tanzania game, Vincent Enyeama
was supposed to fly in Tuesday Morning, only for me to be surprisingly informed
via sms that he was skipping the game because he lost the mum some weeks
earlier.
“I called him up and made an agreement with him, as I needed not
only my captain and such a good goalkeeper for my opening game, that if he came
for the game on Friday I would release him to go to the village after the game
and skip the friendly game versus Niger scheduled for 3 days later after the
Tanzania encounter, which he agreed.
“The team was scheduled to fly out on Thursday. On Wednesday
afternoon Enyeama called to say he was not coming for the game, definitively.
“I was shocked as we had an agreement, we needed his experience,
leadership and I was aware he was yet to miss a training session for his club
side talk less of a league game,” said Oliseh.
Oliseh has been vociferous this weekend about his ill-fated
reign as the Nigeria national team coach
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