Keshi opens World Cup door for Yobo

Keshi opens World Cup door for Yobo
on november 19, 2013 at 1:26 am in sports
Joseph Yobo
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has said that skipper
Joseph Yobo could still feature at the 2014 World
Cup.
Yobo has been overlooked by Keshi since the 2013
Africa Cup of Nations in February.
But Keshi has now
revealed that he
plans to ensure
Yobo gets his
record century of
caps before the
World Cup in Brazil
and if he again
proves his worth
in those friendlies,
he could still make it to Brazil 2014.
”Yobo is very much alive in this team than any
other player. Yobo and I spoke before the game (vs
Ethiopia) and our ambition is to make sure that he
gets that 100th cap and by God’s grace he will get
it,” Keshi said.
”Now the thing is will he be willing to come back?
But we have been talking and he has said no
problems.
So, why not, if he is here he would have his
hundredth cap and if he is in shape, why not the
World Cup?”
Yobo has featured at the 2002 and 2010 World
Cups.
He lost his first-team in the Eagles to youngster
Kenneth Omeruo at the 2013 AFCON in South Africa
and even when Omeruo was sidelined by injury, he
was not recalled and instead Warri Wolves defender
Azubuike Egwuekwe filled in.