Nigeria's Goal Machine and Spartak Moscow's striker, Emmanuel Emenike has promised a $50,000 reward
(about N8 million) to the Super Eagles if they qualify Nigeria for the 2014
World Cup in Brazil. The team will play a friendly against Mexico on May 31st, 2013 as build-up.
Emenike, is out of the next two qualifiers
due to injury to his knee, said:
“I promise the whole team $50,000 if they qualify for the World Cup in Brazil...Like
I said before that we have team who can make this country proud, and I
am doing this from the bottom of my heart just to motivate the team. I
am not doing this to intimidate anybody but just to show my total
support to the team because I grew up supporting the Super Eagles.”
The Goal Machine continued, “I am really behind the team. I don’t want them to miss me because there are other players who can get them the goals... Before
I decided to play for Nigeria, even before I dreamt of becoming a
professional footballer, which I am today by God’s grace, I have been a
passionate fan of the Super Eagles... I could remember when I used
to watch the team way back at the 1994 Nations Cup and World Cup, and I
am speaking today as a Super Eagles player, it is a great honour, so the
team means a lot to me and that is why I deem it fit to support the
team in my little way... I never knew I will play for Nigeria. This
is a reward for what I have done in Europe and it is time I supported
my country even more.”
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