Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has closed
the door on striker Ikechukwu Uche for
the World Cup, saying he lacks tactical
discipline.
Uche has been one of Nigeria’s reliable
goal scorers and has scored 12 goals this
season 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.
Keshi speaking to MTNFootball.com from
his base in the United States said,
"Ikechukwu Uche is not a player I have
not seen play. Ike Uche 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’re playing is not
good.
"Uche he 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."
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