The Tottenham striker, along with Kossi Agassa
and Floyd Ayite, will not feature for the start the
Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign versus
Liberia next weekend
Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been
removed from the Togo squad after failing to join
up with the team on time.
Togo start their qualification campaign for the
2017 Africa Cup of Nations against Liberia next
Sunday.
But they will do so without Adebayor, Reims
goalkeeper Kossi Agassa and Bastia attacking
midfielder Floyd Ayite, who also showed up late.
"I have no problem with the players as
individuals," coach Tom Saintfiet told BBC Sport .
"It's their choice not to come to the hotel, not to
be part of the group, and that makes the choice fo
me very easy to say these players are now not
able to be part of the national team.
"We ask only to be as one team together, to
prepare us for these important game."
Saintfiet added that the trio had been missing for
most of the past week as Togo prepare for
Monday's friendly with Ghana.
He said: "Floyd Ayite and [Kossi] Agassa were onl
one time in training and Emmanuel [Adebayor]
came twice, but for the rest of the time I never sa
him.
"So I'm very sad about that because these three
players were in my squad of 23, they are importan
players for the country and I was looking forward
to working with them."
No comments:
Post a Comment