Sportinglife can reveal exclusively that Super Eagles captian Vincent Enyeama risks being banned from the country’s senior team, if he doesn’t improve on his attitude towards eggheads of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on the team’s policies.
Sportinglife can reveal further that Enyeama has been tacitly given the last warning to be of good conduct while with the team or remain in France to play for his clubside.
Enyeama, Sportinglife scooped was reluctant to play the last international friendly against Uganda until he contacted the Akwa Ibom State governor who confirmed that he had accepted to host the game in Uyo.
Even as the game against Uganda was a milestone for Enyeama, he was prepared to skip it like he did with the second game against South Africa in Neisuit, if the Ugandan game was played outside Uyo.
Curiously, Enyeama, Sportinglife gathered further still had the termerity to ask for match bonus for the drawn game against South Africa which he did not participate. Happily, Enyeama got a tongue lash from the official that he called and was told categorically that he could afford not to play for the country, if his primary concern was to cause rifts in the squad.
Recall that Enyeama was banished from the Eagles by erstwhile Eagles chief coach Samson Siasia for instigating his colleagues not to fly in a purported small aircraft from Nigeria to the United States. Siasia called Enyeama’s bluff when he directed those interested in travelling to enter the bus and head for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Abuja.
Shamelessly, Enyeama bid a retreat to his threat and joined the small aircraft to the US.But Siasia had the last laugh by dropping him from the international game and subsequently until his exit as coach.
Determined to call Enyeama’s bluff, NFF chiefs have challenged the coaches to produce new goalkeepers with a tacit warning to use only the home-based goalkeepers for subsequent matches, in a bid to find capable competitors to fight for the goalkeeper’s shirt with Enyeama.
As a fallout to Eneyama’s effontary, it was decided that each player would be given $2,000 as appearance fees for international friendly games with a caveat not to pay match bonuses irrepective of the game’s outcome.