Lagos - A former Nigerian teammate, Victor Ikpeba has laid to rest the
speculation that some members of the USA 94 World Cup squad ganged up
against Rashidi Yekini,
SuperSport reports.
Yekini passed away last Friday in his hometown, Ira in Iyun local government, Kwara State and was buried on Saturday.
But Ikpeba, speaking on SuperSport's football magazine show, Monday
Night Football, cleared the air that he never perceived any form of
hatred from some team members of the Super Eagles' set of 1994 towards
Yekini.
The former AS Monaco striker went on to explain that the competition
for places in the Super Eagles may have been misconstrued by outsiders
to mean on-field envy for the late Nigerian striker.
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