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Forget Mikel, Onazi… Super Eagles still lack creative midfielders – Jay Jay Okocha

Contrary to the commendation given to Super Eagles’ midfield ahead of Wednesday’s clash against Bafana Bafana at the Akwa Ibom international, ex-skipper of the Super Eagles, Austin Okocha thinks that the midfield is not creative enough to combat the challenges of producing sublime works which could be well worked into goals.

Okocha who now acts as the Delta State FA chairman following the election of former chief, Amaju Pinnick to the board of the NFF said in an interview that he would like to engage in the running of the game on a national scale, but only when the arena is ‘clean,’ conceding that ‘when the time is right,’ he would be contributing his quota to the discovery of talents such as he used to be back in the days.

The game between Nigeria and South Africa is set to go on at 6pm without hitches and report of injuries on either side of the divide as the rivals seek to mend or cement authority in the eleventh encounter between them.

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