Stanley Nwabali, Super Eagles goalkeeper, has disclosed that colleague Francis Uzoho is still the team’s first-choice shot-stopper at the current 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Ivory Coast.
Speaking with The Guardian UK correspondent, Osasu Obayiuwana, Nwabali said: “To be honest it has been nice, it has been God throughout but I am not the first choice.
“Uzoho is still the first choice, I only had an opportunity to play. I feel I have to do my best when I have an opportunity to play.
“I was not expecting to play the opening game but I am ready even when I got the call-up but I was not sure of a starting place.”
Nwabali added: “He Peseiro didn’t talk to me initially. It was a day before our game, after our last training he came to me, ‘Stanley keep it to yourself, you are going to play’. I told him I am always ready and not worried about it.”
