Oliseh reveals Super Eagles legend whom teammates found it difficult playing with

The Tremendous Eagles legend stated many teammates discovered it troublesome with the extremely gifted Jayjay Okocha however he tailored to him as he listened when he talked to him

Sunday Oliseh has revealed a lot of their Tremendous Eagles teammates discovered it troublesome to deal with the previous Bolton Wanderers’ star’s type of soccer.

Talking on Athlst’s Podcast, Particular Supply with Emmanuel Babayaro and Matthew Edafe, Oliseh stated Okocha was gifted however his excesses had been troublesome to deal with for defensive gamers, they usually misplaced it many occasions.

“With Jayjay, most individuals would say he was a troublesome participant to play with, as teammates, as defensive gamers. However I personally had a method, an understanding with Jayjay that made it straightforward for me to play with him, ” Oliseh stated.

“There was one explicit sport, I’ll share a narrative with you. We had been taking part in and Jayjay was doing his regular factor and Nigerian followers had been going loopy. In our staff, as a lot as we disagreed, each participant was a king of their place. We had match winners – many of the gamers may win video games but when somebody did one thing unhealthy within the group, the defenders all the time inform me, ‘Sunday inform am o’.

“They knew I used to be the one one who may to say to Jayjay that ‘my man, launch the ball and Jayjay would launch. There was one explicit sport, he was doing it and we misplaced the ball. And the ball was coming and Taribo was going loopy about him. And he misplaced the ball yet another time, and I informed him ‘hey my man, I’m uninterested in operating. And the following time he went on dribbling and misplaced the ball. I left the person. I let the opponent cross they usually nearly scored. Taribo went loopy, he crossed forward of me and I needed to seize him. Don’t joke with Taribo. He desires to win. He’s fanatical about profitable, ” Oliseh narrated.

Oliseh and Okocha performed collectively within the Tremendous Eagles at the very least for 8 years between 1994 and 2002. They performed collectively as teammates on the USA 94’ World Cup, Atlanta 96 Olympics, France 98 World Cup, Ghana/Nigeria 2000 AFCON and the Mali 2002 AFCON.

Each gamers are two of Nigeria’s best gamers of all time.