2022 WCQ: Ill- Mannered Iheanacho ‘Assaults’ A Journalist During Eagles Training Session

By Tolu Atobatele

Super Eagles average striker and Liecester City bench warmer  Kelechi Iheanacho exhibited his lack of morality when he physically assaulted ‘Brila FM’ reporter, Yinka Oyedele, during the  team training  session at the Teslim Balogun Stadium on Tuesday evening.
According to reports, the media was given access to talk to the players after their training session with Oyedele one of the reporters at the training ground ready to have a session  with Iheanacho   but was shocked when he was physically shoved aside and assaulted by the average player who call himself senior man despite his lack of home training and respect for other profession.
According to the Brila FM reporter, Oyedele, The media was given permission to talk to players after training and when I approached Kelechi Iheanacho to talk to him after training, he decided to shove me aside despite the session being an open one,” Oyedele said.

“He actually ended up not talking to the press in what was a sheer show of ill manner.”
An eye-witness at the scene, Tobi Peters of ‘TVC’, said it was a sheer arrogance from the player and there was need to put an end to insults from the players to journalists.
Peters said Oyedele really showed maturity because no one would accept such attitude from someone who is younger than you and also in the line of your duty.
He added: “I don’t think personally that I would accept such an attitude from any player.
“They need us more than we need them because without God and publicity, some of them won’t be where they are today and I will say this, I was highly disappointed in Iheanacho and they need to call him to order.”
Meanwhile, most journalists were left disappointed with the way and manner an NFF official  came with gun-totting soldiers to threaten and ask journalists  to leave the pitch side while the team trains.
Incidentally, CAF and FIFA have already made their position clear that arms and ammunition are not permitted within vicinity of a football arena – something the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF officials failed to accept.

 The Eagles will be a guest of  Central African Republic on Sunday, October 10 in Douala, Cameroon for the reverse fixture of their world cup qualifier having lost the first leg 0-1 to the Les Favues.