Former Super Eagles Captain , Sunday Oliseh believes Nigeria could have gotten better results from Rashidi Yekini at USA 94 and the team could have done better but for the deep rooted division in the team.

“Some of our our players were madly, sickly, mentally jealous and the moment Yekini was named the highest player. He was leaving for Panathinaikos.There was some Jealousy there and Yekini himself, He was not smart enough to calm things down…but with due respect…”

Oliseh believes Yekini was special “ A lot of things about it, you know,personally,if you look at it, , which other striker do we have in the history of Nigeria, who strikes 30 metres shots. If Yekini can count the number of goals at the highest level, it will be over a hundred… of all the Strikers we talk about in Nigeria, which other striker? He asks.

In the 1994 summer, Yekini was bought by Olympiacos FC, but did not get along with teammates and left. His career never really got back on track, not even upon a return to Setúbal, which happened after another unassuming spell, in La Liga with Sporting de Gijón. He successively played with FC Zürich, Club Athlétique Bizertin and Al-Shabab Riyadh, before rejoining Africa Sports. In 2003, at 39, he returned to the Nigerian championship with Julius Berger FC.

The world would watch in amazement as Yekini rushed into the net and alone, all, all alone like that famous line from the rhyme of the Ancient mariner. He would chant, scream all by himself, an image that personified the legendary goalscorer supreme and one of the defining moments of USA 94.No one came to meet him.

if they conspired, what was the job of the coach westerhorf?

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In the 1994 summer, Yekini was bought by Olympiacos FC, but did not get along with teammates and left. His career never really got back on track, not even upon a return to Setúbal, which happened after another unassuming spell, in La Liga with Sporting de Gijón. He successively played with FC Zürich, Club Athlétique Bizertin and Al-Shabab Riyadh, before rejoining Africa Sports. In 2003, at 39, he returned to the Nigerian championship with Julius Berger FC.
wiki what happened to his club performance, did the super eagles invade his club with conspiracy as well.

oliseh should go and sit down, if not for the respect i have for him, i would have asked him to eat poo. he is just looking for an opportunity to be in the news. what happened to his mafia-super eagles, was he not the head/capone?


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The world would watch in amazement as Yekini rushed into the net and alone, all, all alone like that famous line from the rhyme of the Ancient mariner. He would chant, scream all by himself, an image that personified the legendary goalscorer supreme and one of the defining moments of USA 94.No one came to meet him.
why did yekini go selfish?

let us not bring issues that are very wrong up. also, the initial title of this thread was tribalistic. if igbos did this to yekini, why didnt they allow peter rufai to suffer in the goal post.
all these hatred for ndigbo is false, evil and bad.

Baba_O:

Are you intelligent at all? at 39 how could he have the same fitness level as during USA 94?

Baba_O:

@saintneo
Are you intelligent at all? at 39 how could he have the same fitness level as during USA 94?

Bosom:

the forward lineup against bulgaria would have included amuneke (se), finidi (ss), siasia(ss) and amokachi (nc).
if they all did not identify with the goalking then it was not tribal.

candylips:

why is he raising this up after 16 yrs.  

dogice:

i love nairaland,they will always wound you 

190:

Didnt  Fernando Torres partner Yekini against Bulgaria

190:

answer me gadeemmmiit!!

Baba_O:

@saintneo
Are you intelligent at all? at 39 how could he have the same fitness level as during USA 94?

Larufa:

Please everybody go back and watch Yekini scored Nigeria 1st ever goal at the World cup, the nearest person to Yekini was Emmanuel Amuneke. After the goal was scored Amuneke just held the post and turned back. He did not make any attempt to celebrate the goal. It was Uche Okechuckwu, a defender, that came all the way from the back to celebrate with him 1st. In fact it was a known fact that the head of the hatred mafia was the team captain - Stephen Keshi, remember the issue of the invitation of Chidi Nwanu.

What I believe Olishe is doing now is trying to clear his conscience and right the record.