AFCON 2023: Ideye Blasts Peseiro For Naming 25 Players In Super Eagles’ Squad

Former Super Eagles forward, Brown Ideye has blasted Jose Peseiro for including 25 players in his final squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

Peseiro had the chance to include 27 players in his squad, but instead opted for 25.

The Portuguese has now been forced to reshuffle his squad with injuries to the trio of Wilfred Ndidi, Victor Boniface and Umar Sadiq.

Ideye expressed disappointment with the composition of the squad.

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“We’re just unlucky that we have most of our key players injured, that’s one reason CAF ask teams to submit 27 names because they know things like this can happen. But what we did? We went with 25, we literally shot our self on the foot,” Ideye wrote on his X handle.

“Kelechi Iheanacho is not 100% fit they know that before submitting the

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