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Former Tremendous Eagles and Stoke Metropolis striker, Osaze Odemwingie, has blasted Libya for his or her supposed revenge act on the Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria, Soccernet.ng studies.
The Tremendous Eagles travelled to Libya and have been scheduled to land on the Benghazi Benina airport earlier than they have been redirected to the Al Abraq Worldwide airport, 300km away from their preliminary vacation spot.
Upon secure touchdown, the Nigerian group weren’t allowed to depart the airport and have been with out meals and web for over 13 hours.
The Libya FA in response to this act, put out an official assertion claiming they skilled the identical after they landed in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria for the primary leg.
Osaze, in an interview with Brila, revealed the Libyan group ought to have filed an official grievance in the event that they felt maltreated, moderately than threat participant’s lives in an try and avenge.
“It’s a disgrace to see issues like this occur. It’s scary as a result of diverting a aircraft to a different airport is a complete completely different degree. I don’t know who was behind this, but it surely clearly went too far.
If they’d complaints about how they have been handled, they might have filed an official grievance. I’m certain Nigeria as a rustic, can get issues proper, we are able to provide them apologies or clarify issues.
You don’t with none rationalization leap into extremes, that was excessive. The principle individuals in soccer are all the time footballers and I’m certain this complete scenario turned poisonous that even Libyan gamers should not completely satisfied. Some individuals may not even need to play soccer after this for his or her nation.
It’s very disappointing as a result of if soccer individuals have been in command of such issues won’t ever occur. However, this a case of non-football individuals, with out ardour or love for the sport, are available in and upset issues,” the 44-year-old revealed.
The flip of occasions pressured the Tremendous Eagles captain, William Troost-Ekong to announce the group decided to stop the sport towards Libya.
Adefolahan Guerreiro
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