Leicester City Manager,Craig Shakespeare, has been inspirational to the Nigerian star, Wilfred Ndidi, who may be one of the players on parade when the club visit the den of Crystal Palace in the English Premier League on Saturday.
The Super Eagles utility player, revealed how he was able to fit into the Leicester first team when he joined the club.”
The other players were scared and couldn’t cope when they saw me but I was so nervous that I couldn’t pass the ball properly,” Ndidi remembers.
“I was new to the position and the coach wasn’t the kind who keeps calm, he screams a lot at every player. So I didn’t play well and he took me off at half-time.
At half-time!” The repetition is accompanied by a laugh and it is the nearest that Ndidi, modest to a fault, comes to suggesting wonder at the journey he has taken since then.
That jittery performance at Gent led to a brief run of games on the bench but he made himself undroppable upon returning and, three months since joining a Leicester City side whose fortunes have swung wildly in that time, he is nearing similar status in the east Midlands
