AHMED MUSA ENCOURAGE HOME BASED PLAYERS ON PATIENCE AND HARD WORK

Tremendous Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, has suggested younger footballers making an attempt to interrupt into the nationwide workforce to be affected person.

Musa, who’s Nigeria’s most-capped participant with 107 matches since his debut at 17 in 2010, believed younger footballers ought to lower their tooth with the age-grade groups earlier than aspiring to play for the senior nationwide workforce.

He additionally mentioned that even when they’re drafted into the senior workforce, they need to not anticipate to be starters however relatively make the perfect of the couple of minutes once they get to play, including that he was not an everyday when he began enjoying for the nationwide workforce.

He would later assist the Tremendous Eagles win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and performed for them on the final two World Cups netting twice at every event, making him the nation’s high World Cup goalscorer.

He mentioned: “We now have the U-20s and U-23 groups, the Tremendous Eagles is the primary workforce in Nigeria, you can not carry a younger participant and begin him; you may be killing his profession.

“The nationwide workforce will not be a membership facet the place the coach goes to offer you time to develop. The nationwide workforce is the place a younger participant is available in for 5 minutes to 10 minutes. I began from 5 minutes with the Tremendous Eagles and this has introduced me to the place I’m right this moment,” he added.