Osaze Odemwingie has said he regrets his
sensational Twitter comments, which he made after Coach Stephen Keshi left him out of Super Eagles preliminary
list for the 2013 Afcon camp in Portugal. The player said Keshi was not fair to
him.
However, the England-based forward said his
mistakes were made in a fit of anger after he had made it known to his coach
and colleagues that he was set to travel for the Nations Cup in South Africa.
In a no-holds-bar interview, the WBA star
surprisingly admitted making some of the comments credited to him, but was also
quick to make some clarifications on calling Green names, saying what he
attacked was the decision to exclude him.
He described Green as a good man and one of the
few on the NFF board alongside the president, Aminu Maigari, who he knows
personally, and would not want to offend, though his anger has portrayed him to
be at “war with everybody”.
“I remember it was Green who settled my case with Siasia
then, but I was too angry when he called me over this matter, and was impatient
to listen to
him,” he now said.
“My comment was not directed at him personally,
but to those who made the decision, but I think I over reacted then.”
On his face-off with Keshi, the former Lokomotiv Moscow
forward revealed, “I called the coach two or three times within that period,
maybe two or three days before the list was
made public and told him of my commitment to be part of the Nations Cup, and
have told my (club) coach I will be going to the Nations Cup.
“I felt betrayed after that seeming
heart-to-heart discussions with the coach few days to the release of the team
list and he could not hint me I was not in his plan for the Nations Cup.”
Source: Vanguard
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