Sports World Cup 2014: Super Eagles will perform well despite the inclusion of benchwarmers- Akpoborie

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Former Nigeria and Wolfsburg striker Jonathan Akpoborie described the bench-warming role of some of the Super Eagles players as a blessing in disguise, saying that Nigeria can still do well at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

The Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, who met with the members of the Nigerian Football Federation on Tuesday is expected to name his team for the competition which begins in June.

“The players selected by Keshi will be the major factor to determine how well we’ll perform. I’m just hoping we’ll get the players that will do the job well for us,” Akpoborie told Punch.

“The selection should be based on players’ active roles in their clubs. Most of the players that qualified us for the World Cup have been sitting on the bench.

“But the bench roles some of these players play at their clubs may not work against the Super Eagles if the coach has a strategy that can bring the best out of them. "A lot of people can argue about it but Greece won the 2004 European Championship with majority of the players as bench warmers at the various clubs.

“It depends on the programmes the coach has for them and I’m expecting a good outing for Nigeria in Brazil,” he concluded.
 
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