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Two-time Super Eagles coach, Adegboye Onigbinde has come down hard on the team for losing to Ghana in an international friendly, describing the outing as the worst in recent times.

The coach who led the Super Eagles to the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan pointed out that it was sad that Ghana had to whitewash Nigeria in the manner they did in London.

Chief Onigbinde who further described the encounter as a sad development noted that the Eagles failed to impress in two performance and result.

"In every game, a team is judged by two key areas–performance and result. It is one thing to play well and lose a game, and the other is the outcome of the encounter. Our Super Eagles failed on both grounds.

I did say before this encounter that we didn’t have a team, but people thought I was just being sarcastic," he said.
"There’s need for us to have our national teams run all through the year and the question people are raising is why?
"I have not said that the team must be in long camping but, with a good developmental programme, we can have players to fill the various positions without making our team an all European based team. Worse still, we have abandoned our football for too long and now, the game has left us," he said.
Chief Onigbinde decried the lack of a national sports policy for the country, stressing further that as a country, " we’re jokers."

Speaking on the other shock result of the Tuesday friendly in which Brazil lost to Portugal, Chief Onigbinde said he was not in the least surprised because a team only gets what it puts into a game.
" What is there to surprise anyone, I’ve always said that a team gets what it puts into a game. Brazil may not have played well and the Portugese did, so they won.

" I recall that when we were going to Korea/Japan for the World Cup, I was asked what my expectations were and I said that Nigeria had the same chance as the other 31 countries. No one expected our results against England and Argentina."