Former Assistant To Late Stephen Keshi Reveals Why Taiye Taiwo Wasn't Handed Call Up

Former assistant coach of the Super Eagles Sylvanus Okpala has lifted the lids to claims by former Super Eagles left full back Taiye Taiwo.

Recall that Taiye Taiwo came out to state  the that corrupt practices made him quit the team.

Taiwo alleged that he couldn’t cope with the shady nature of the former coach of the team Stephen Keshi hence his decision to quit the senior national team of Nigeria.


Taiye made his debut for the Super Eagles of Nigeria in  2004. He was played 54 games for the senior team and scored 8 times until he retired in 2012.

“I also read about Taiye Taiwo’s outburst in the papers. After our experience with him, we never invited him again. During our AFCON qualifier against Rwanda, Taiye didn’t play well in that game. Keshi complained after the match but the players went back to their rooms and started plotting how to remove Keshi. They never knew that Keshi’s room was the next to Taiye’s room.

“Taiye was telling other players that Keshi was shouting on him on the pitch and that he will do to Keshi what he did to other coaches and ensure that Keshi was sacked.


“Keshi was in his room listening to all their conversations. Now, most of them are now coming to talk about money. It wasn’t about money because I knew about these two issues involving Taiye and Uche.

” Which coach will like to invite a player who wants him sacked in his team? It’s not possible . I am telling you what happened as an insider”, he remarked.