FORMER Super Eagles captain, Stephen Keshi will perform better than Samson Siasia as the head coach of Nigeria's national team, out of favour striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni has said.The Blackburn Rovers' striker passed a damning verdict saying that Nigeria's head coach, Samson Siasia was not good enough for the job.Aiyegbeni's was reacting to the failure of the Siasia-tutored Eagles to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.The former Everton man believes that the blame lies at the doorstep of Siasia and he should accept responsibility for the country's failure to claim a spot at the Afcon.Aiyegbeni, 28, opined that Keshi was a better choice for the job than Siasia whom he said failed to take the team to the Nations Cup. 'Unlike coach Christian Chukwu who took the team to the Nations Cup and still urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to bring in a technical adviser, may be a person of Stephen Keshi may replicate such a thing.''The manager didn't do well so they should look for another person to take the opportunity.''The striker, who has been blacklisted from the Super Eagles since his infamous miss against South Korea at the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, said missing the Afcon is disappointing for Nigeria adding that the players will feel the pain more when the Africa Cup of Nations gets underway in January.''It's sad that we will not be there (at the Afcon),'' he lamented. ''For the players they don't know what has happened to them right now. By January they will know what they will be missing.''However, Aiyegbeni refused to lay into the players saying that it is the prerogative of the coach to know when a player is having a bad day in the office.Refeering to his miss against South Korea at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Aiyegbeni said. ''A striker misses and scores goals, which are part of the game. When I missed a goal at the World Cup I was criticised. Even (Fernando) Torres too missed his own too. But it is still the coach that will go if any of this happens,'' he said.
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