Super Falcons attacking midfielder, Vera Okolo will not be a party to the team’s London 2012 Olympic Games qualifier against the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in Yaoundé next weekend, insisting that she will not allow herself to be as training material.?
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The kid dynamite who was pivotal to Delta Queens success stories at this year’s Super Six and Challenge Cup respectively, is among the 27 players coach Eucharia Uche invited to camp to prosecute the quadrennial football clash against Cameroon. ?She did not play any role in the team’s slim 2-1 win over the Cameroonians in Abuja in first leg.
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Okolo told SuperSport.com that she has matured in the game and will not allow anybody to use her as a training material. “I won’t be honouring the invitation to camp, it makes no sense to me any longer to honour an invitation to camp and despite exhibiting good form one is kept on the bench or merely used as training material.
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“I think I have paid my dues in the junior and senior teams. I play regularly for my team, Delta Queens. I played the women league preliminaries, Challenge Cup and the final Super Six which we won. So in terms of being competitive and match fit, I am.
“Since merit has taken flight in the Super Falcons, I have decided to take the back seat, at least, for now.
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“National team assignment is a serious matter and should not be mixed up with sentiment or favouritism,” she said.?The coaches are likely to limit themselves with the 20 players in camp now in addition to the expected five foreign based players for the must win encounter.
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Although, Stella Mbachu, one of the invited players is yet to report to camp, she told SuperSport.com that she is hospitalized at the moment, but will join the camp once she is discharged.?“No, I have not reported to camp, I am in hospital right now in Owerri. I have typhoid fever, my coach is aware and I will rejoin my colleagues once I am fit,” she said. ?
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