Finidi George reveals why he dragged Pepe’s jersey with Moses Simon after Nigeria loss

Nigeria’s assistant coach Finidi George has explained what exactly happened in the short video where he was seen with Portugal defender, Pepe and Moses Simon after the friendly between Super Eagles and Portugal on Thursday.

The friendly match that was played at the Estadio De Vavadade ended 4-0 in favor of the World Cup bound Portugal with two goals from Bruno Fernandes.

After the match, George was in a brief chat with Pepe and Simon regarding the Portuguese’ match jersey and the incident met generated heated reactions, with Nigerians berating the former Super Eagles’ winger for his actions.

However, Finidi has cleared on what happened in the viral video against what Nigerians thought, offering explanation behind his request for Pepe’s jersey at the expense of Simon.

“My son asked me two weeks ago if it’s possible to get the shirt of Ronaldo or Pepe because he’s a very big fan of Real Madrid when they were at the club and I told him I will try,” the former Real Betis and Ajax forward said.

“Getting to the field, we knew Ronaldo wasn’t going to start because he was sick. So I told Pepe in the tunnel, please after the game, I would like to have the shirt for my son. So, he told me that was fine.

“After the game, I saw he was changing his shirt with one of the players and I went to remind him of what we said in the tunnel before the game started.”

He said he was going to give his shirt to somebody else, a player, a Super Eagles player playing in his club (Porto), and that definitely, I will get the shirt. I was speaking Spanish with him and that was it.”

The Technical Adviser of Enyimba FC was surprised why people were making issues out of such needless thing adding that he’s gone beyond being star struck in football world.

He was also disappointed that the misconstrued moments overshadowed the outcome of the match and how the eagles fared which should be the focus for all.

“Its unfortunate because I thought we should be talking about the game but here we are, people just want to twist things and the real reason for me. I’ve had many jerseys in my playing days and I don’t need Pepe’s shirt for myself,” he said.