Adept in shocking revelations, former Nigerian international Taribo West returned to the Super Eagles’ 1998 World Cup journey in France, and more specifically to the elimination against Denmark (1-4) in the round of 16. A failure that the former defender attributes to the behavior of some of his teammates the day before the match.
“I’ve read about the Super Eagles that went to a nightclub and drove limos during the World Cup in France. I honestly don’t know. But what I do know is that some players sneaked women into the camp, I saw it“The former Auxerrois told the newspaper The Punch. “The women were Africans who came to the tournament and fell in love with our team, for the way we played in the group stage (Nigeria finished 1er Group B ahead of Paraguay, Spain and Bulgaria). So it was easy for these players to take them to their rooms.“
An attitude paid at a high price according to West. “That’s why, on match day, you could see that a lot of players didn’t have the strength to brake the Danes. They were tired after being overworked the day before with the women. I was yelling at them on the ground, I was very angry with them. They did it all because they thought we were going to beat Denmark“Said the 46-year-old. Led 1-0 after 3 minutes and 2-0 after 12 minutes, the Nigerians were definitely not there that day …
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