Player stuck in Turkey, ignored by the national leadership.
How “Thou Shalt Not” became “Thou Shalt.”
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| HEAR NOTHING FROM NATIONAL TEAM MANAGEMENT: Liban Abdi player stuck in the Turkish league, but are not yet rewarded by national team games. |
—By Karen Greenberg
While Morten Gamst Pedersen
sits on the bench in Antalyaspor, Liban Abdi is a fixture in the starting of
Rizespor.
Nevertheless, the former inside
national heat, while Abdi has not heard anything from the national leadership.
The notified Akers Avis Groruddalen Friday.
And he admitted to online
newspaper that he is starting to look tired that he constantly gets overlooked.
He does not think national
leadership must follow what he accomplishes in Turkish football day.
- They have absolutely no
oversight.
- It's not so long ago
they barely enough did not know who I was, said Liban Abdi online newspaper.
Has impressed
Abdi, who signed for the
Turkish club in January, has impressed big in their first weeks in the new
club.
He has already made wide
left position of his own, and he plays solid in a league with many large
profiles. Worth mentioning is Didier Drogba and Wesley Sneijder (Galatasaray)
and Dirk Kuyt and Raul Meireles (Fenerbache).
While several Norwegian
foreign professionals struggling to get playing time, is thus Abdi about to
establish itself as a safe bet in Rizespor XI.
Un-Norwegian-play
and Abdi even think he
definitely has something to bring the Norwegian national team.
- There is no doubt that I
can contribute something Norway does not have too much of. I have great speed,
good technique and a style of play that is very un-Norwegian.
- Do you mean that you are
on par with those who play on the edge of Norway?
- First and foremost I
want to say that I have great respect for national team our players. There are
good football players in question here.
- However, I feel that I'm
at least the same level as them, says Abdi diplomatically.
Unknown to most of
those football experts
around the pretty country, Abdi known as the Norwegian foreign pro no
Norwegians know.
The Somali-born Norwegian,
moved to England after high school, and at age 17 he received a professional
contract with Sheffield United.
Abdi never got the chance
in the traditional English club, but impressed when he was on loan for two
years in the Hungarian league club Ferencvaros.
The transition to
Hungarian football was made permanent in 2010, and Abdi spent two more seasons
in the Ferencvaros before the road went on to Olhanense and Portuguese
football.
- Not good enough
in the Portuguese club
Abdi impressed enough that he should have been on the block for several big
clubs. Porto should have been one of those clubs.
It was at this time Egil
Olsen sports coaches were made aware of Batman's qualities.
The former national coach
admitted at the time that he had never seen Abdi in action.
Sports coaches so however
Norwegian-Somali playing on three occasions in autumn 2012, and the conclusion
was crystal clear.
- He's not good enough for
the national team at present, said sports coaches to VG.
Academica
Abdi played only one
season for Olhanense before the road went on to league rival Academica last
summer.
The stay was terminated
after only six months, when 25-year-old signed for Rizespor in January this
year.
Abdi is so far very happy
with the state of affairs in his new club, and now hopes the national
leadership finally open their eyes to him.
- It had been a great
experience to play for Norway. Although I was born in Somalia, it is Norway is
my country, he told online newspaper.
The Norwegian national
team management has not answered the online newspaper inquiries Friday.
Source: nettavisen.n
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