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| Photo credit: Ifeanyi Ibeh |
Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi has declared that Joseph Yobo
will continue to serve as the national team’s skipper, even if the Fenerbahce
of Turkey defender hasn’t featured for the national side since the last Africa Cup
of Nations tournament.
Yobo, the Super Eagles’ most-capped player of all-time, has
fallen down the pecking order behind the duo of Godfrey Oboabona and Kenneth
Omeruo, and has missed all seven games the national team has been involved in
since the conclusion of the Cup of Nations in February.
As a result of his exclusion from the Super Eagles, Yobo
reportedly had a spat with Keshi. But speaking at a media interaction at the national
team’s Bolton White Apartments camp in Abuja on Wednesday, Keshi insisted he
still has a lot of respect for Yobo because of what he has done for the nation.
He was however quick to add that he cannot call up the former
Everton defender only to keep him on the substitutes’ bench.
“It will not be fair to invite Yobo to the national team and
ask him to be on the bench,” said Keshi. “It will be a huge disgrace and I
won’t be part of that.
He added: “When the team needs him he will be recalled and
will definitely start as captain even if along the line we substitute him.”
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