Ex-Super Eagles skipper, Austin Jay-Jay Okocha, has issued a fresh challenge to any Nigerian club that wants him out of retirement.
The former Bolton skipper dared interested teams to splash the cash if they really want him to reconsider reversing his decision to quit football.
Okocha, 42, is widely regarded as the best Nigerian player of his generation and one of the greatest Africans of all time.
After a successful career which spanned over two decades, the master dribbler eventually quit the game in 2008, aged 35 and has since gone into football administration.
He represented Nigeria at three World Cups and was a prominent member of the victorious team that won Gold at the1996 Olympics.
With ex-teammate, Joseph Yobo, on the verge of a sensational return to the domestic league, Okocha is not ruling out the possibility of following suit.
His boyhood club, Enugu Rangers, are believed to be in the forefront for his signature and Okocha says he will find it irresistible if they “adequately pay me”.
“Well I don’t know if Rangers can afford to bring me out of retirement,” the former Hull City midfielder said on Tuesday during the official launch of his Foundation in Lagos.
“I had reasons before quitting football not that my body cannot carry me again.”
Okocha, now head of the Delta State Football Association, showed he’s still got it during the Yobo Centenary match in Port Harcourt in May.
And he insists: “If I am to return to football, then it will mean that I have to drop a whole lot of other things that I am doing.
“If a team can adequately pay me to drop every other thing to play for them, why not,” he concluded sarcastically.
Apart from the aforementioned clubs, Okocha also kitted for European giants, Paris Saint-Germain, Fenerbahçe, Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Neunkirchen before a brief spell in the Middle East.
