Super Eagles handler Stephen Keshi has dismissed report that he was the last man standing, after his former  team mates who were coaching the national teams failed to qualify the country for international competitions billed for next year.

With the  chain of bad results, starting from the senior national team’s failure to qualify for the forthcoming Nation’s Cup to be staged in Equatorial Guinean and Gabon, to the national  Under-23 team that failed in their bid to win the London 2012 ticket, critics have it that  ex-internationals have failed as coaches and the former Togo and Mali coach was the next to be sacked.

Keshi rose in strong defence of his former colleagues and said, “  I do not think I am the last man standing; we still have capable hands as ex-internationals  who can still coach the National teams and  succeed.

“The fact that some ex-players have failed as coaches doesn’t mean  others can not succeed as coaches. It is  unfortunate that things are happening like this .  Really, 2011 is not a favourable year for Nigeria Football but then we have to move on and correct all our mistakes,” he told Brila FM.