Nigeria’s Super Eagles Interim coach, Augustine Eguavoen has cried out ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) which kicks off January 9th, 2022.

He said; “European clubs do not want to release players for AFCON and it bothers me. Everyone should be bothered because there is a list out there and if you don’t release the majority how do you put a team together.”

“I remember in 2011 just before the Olympic games London 2012, we won all the games, blowing teams up 5-1 like that and 95 percent of the players were from Europe, players like Nosa Igiebor, Nnamdi Oduamadi.”

“But when it was time to go to Morocco (for the U-23 AFCON) out of the players who featured during the qualifiers for the U-23 AFCON, I only got like five of them, so it was a problem. So if European clubs are now saying we can’t release them, it will be a problem and to put another team together at this time would be tough.”

For those who don’t know, Eguavoen replaced Gernot Rohr as coach of Nigeria national team.