CSK Moscow striker Ahmed Musa has been named the new captain for the Super Eagles team, coach Sunday Oliseh confirms. According to Oliseh, Musa, who is 22 - years of age will have several years to feature for the team and he (Musa) did an excellent job for the team against Tanzania.
Oliseh claims there is no captain tussle after stripping of the arm band from goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
"Well there is no captain tussle. When you have a new government like our honourable president just came in, he's picked his ministers. And you have your philosophy and you have your way of working.
The fact that I would like to have somebody (as captain) who is thinking of playing now and not somebody who is preparing for retirement or thinking of after-football. And I think it's time we had peace and quiet around the Super Eagles. That is why I am glad that most of the players here are finding ways to work as a team because I get the feeling now that they are aware that they are representing 170 million people.
There is no question of conforming or not. If you don't conform you go home. As far as I am concerned we are not here to build stars, we are here to build a national team. I've been there and I know what it is like to be a captain. As a captain you lead by example. And when a coach comes and picks a captain, everybody has to follow it. If you don't conform to my guidelines; how I want us to play, how I want us to behave and how I want us to carry Nigeria forward then we will be friends but from afar," Oliseh told Brila FM.
Musa will now begin his tenure as Super Eagles captain when the team play an international friendly match against DR Congo on Thursday
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