Super Eagles lacks good leader: Bwalya

LAGOS, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Former African football player of the year Kalusha Bwalya identified the lack of team leader as one of the problems of the current squad of Nigeria's Super Eagles, the Nigerian Tribune newspaper reported on Saturday.

The Zambian legend said the Super Eagles should have held on at2-1 if they had a team leader in the game against Tunisia in Abujaduring a 2010 World Cup qualifier last Sunday.

"With all the good players Nigeria has, I observed that the Eagles do not have a team leader," he said.

"Leading by 2-1, all the Eagles needed was someone who would kick the ball into touch, into the stands over the bar so that he would create a time to communicate with his mates and reorganize them before the arrival of the ball from wherever he had booted it," he added.

The Seoul '88 Olympics hero blamed the Eagles for allowing Tunisia possession and space which resulted in the equalizer.

The former PSV Eindhoven of Holland playmaker advised Nigeria to look ahead and re-organize.

"There are just five slots for Africa, so Nigerians will have themselves to blame at the end of the day," he added.