The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has told the goalkeeper trainer of the team Ike Shorunmu to stay away from the ahead of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers games against Guinea Bissau.
Super Eagles are in camp for the back to back AFCON qualifiers games against Guinea Bissau on the 24th of March and the 27th in Abuja and away in Bissau respectively. The team will now prosecute the games without first assistant coach Finidi George and goakeepers trainer Shorunmu.
No idea on who will take the spot of Finidi as first assistant but it has been confirmed that the goalkeeper trainer of the Nigeria U20 team Baruwa Olatunji Abideen will be in the camp of the team for the games against Guinea Bissau
Shorunmu confirmed to Newstap.com.ng that he has been told to stay away from the camp of the team by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) but he hasn’t been officially notified by Peseiro.
“What you heard is true. In fact, I have been called by the NFF on the situation. I was told not to bother to go to camp. They told me it was Peseiro who didn’t want me to be part of the game. But as we speak, I have not heard from Peseiro himself,” Ike Shorunmu said.
