•Stanley Nwabali
The Goalkeeper of the national team, Stanley Nwabali, has said he will be returning to his South African club side, Chippa United because he has no reason to fear going back.
Speaking to State House Correspondents after President Bola Tinubu hosted the Super Eagles at the end of the CAF’s African Cup of Nations (AfCON), which was concluded in Abdijan, Cote d’Ivoire, last Sunday.
Despite playing for a South African club, Nwabali was allegedly threatened on social media by some ardent Bafana Bafana supporters for his role in their team’s elimination at the semi-final stage, reports Daily Sun.
He stopped two penalty kicks by Bafana Bafana players in the decider penalty stage, during the Nigerian – South African semi-final match at the Stade de la Paix, in Bouake.
Asked if he would be returning to Chippa United despite the threat, Nwabali said “Definitely, I must go back to my club, but talking about the threat, this is football, you can’t threaten someone because they also won some other teams too. “How about if those they beat decided to keep threatening your players? It doesn’t make sense. It’s football, I don’t think there’s anything attached to it. Maybe it was just someone writing on social media.
“But it’s cool to me because I spoke to my chairman like three days ago, but he didn’t say anything like all that stuff. So he felt like ‘no, it’s cool, you can come back’. Definitely I must go back to my club because they owe me”, he said.
