Nigerian striker, Brown Ideye has opened up on how he missed out on the Super Eagles team to the 2014 World cup in Brazil.
Ideye was one of the surprise omissions from the squad named by Stephen Keshi, despite his impressive performances at the 2013 African Cup of Nations and FIFA Confederation Cup in South Africa and Brazil respectively.
His exclusion from the squad however caused debates in the media, with reports from some quarters saying the experienced forward was dropped due to injury.
The 31-year-old forward has now refuted the claims and said his omission from the team was not for football reasons.
“At that point, I was not really worried because I already heard the rumor that my agent told Keshi to drop me from the team.
“At that point, I sacked my agent because he was the one trying to stop me from moving to West Brom, so I fired him and got a UK agent who made the move successful and he was upset about it and I guess that’s why he did what he did,” Ideye disclosed.
He added that he was initially hurt after missing the biggest showpiece, but he was delighted to complete his dream move to West Bromwich Albion.
“I was a bit down, but as soon as I signed the deal with West Brom, I was kind of relieved and forgot everything about the world cup and was more focused on getting myself ready for the season,” he concluded.
Ideye last played for the Super Eagles back in 2016 in a world cup qualifying game against Zambia in Ndola.
