Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh has said he has been disappointed with “lies” by goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama over their major falling out in Belgium.
On Tuesday, Oliseh and Enyeama clashed at a team meeting during which it was announced CSKA Moscow forward Ahmed Musa was now the new captain of the Eagles ahead of the Lille goalkeeper, who has been leading the team since Joseph Yobo retired from international football last year.
Oliseh said on a radio interview Friday morning the lies were aimed at assassinating his character.
The coach himself a former Eagles captain maintained he did not get the security to walk out the Lille goalkeeper and neither did he insult the player’s late mother.
“There is a level to how far you can go in character assassination by Enyeama. This is unheard of,” said a very emotional Oliseh.
He equally narrated how he drove to France to discus with Enyeama on his philosophy and ideas after he was appointed Super Eagles coach in July.
“I took him to lunch and shared my coaching philosophy with him,” narrated Oliseh.
“He was talking about retirement from the national team), which I didn’t like.”
The coach also recalled that this is not the first time Enyeama has had a major falling out with a national team coach as he did so in 2008 with Berti Vogts as well as when Samson Siasia was in charge.
“In 2008, he was dropped to second or third goalkeeper because of this and under Sammy (Siasia), he also had problems,” Oliseh said.
