By Eddie Akalonu

Former home based Eagles handler, Erasmus Onu has described as “superb” the 30 man provisional list released By Stephen Keshi, saying it contained the best players the country have for the World Cup in Brazil.

“ I must commend Keshi because despite lots of distractions, he remained articulate and  composed, that enabled him to conclude on the names on that list  and I am of the opinion, that there is a team we can be proud of, only if the players work extra hard.”

Speaking to Sports Vanguard, Onu, who has also handled top teams in the domestic league, including, NPA, Wikki Tourists, Jigawa Stars and OUK now Abia Warriors, thumbed up Keshi for the handsome number of places accorded to players from the domestic league, stating “it is a glowing time for our home players and makes the domestic league large.

It will be honored if they can prove themselves worthy, compete favorably with their foreign based counterparts for a place in the 23 man list bound for Brazil now that the opportunity is there.. “There is also that important need for them to prove their worth to give Keshi kudos that he was right in choosing them for the competition, to Nigerians and the world because we have never had it so good in recent times,” he said.

Onu expressed the belief that the list is a bank of players that’s enough to play in the world cup and do well stating “it only needs to be subtracted from and nothing else to be added to it. If players work hard, with luck we might just be going to our best world cup.”