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Goke7: so siasia is now the solution abi? i will continue to say that nff will finally ruin Nigerian football one day, siasia is equally as stubborn if not more than keshi, have we forgotten siasia's clash with players like osaze, mikel and enyeama when he was eagles coach? who says he has learnt his lesson? I have also said it before that nff has no replacement for keshi if not they would have sacked him long ago, they also don't have the money to employ a foreign coach. Nff just want to have keshi out of the way as a vendetta for all the beef they have for him, they are only just going back to their vomit [siasia] which is so bad for our football.

Can someone tell me what siasia has been doing all this while? We are only going back to the wilderness where we were before keshi took over, if we don't have a better replacement, must we go from frying pan to fire?

Anything done out of vendetta only make things worse, our football was better with the immediate past sports minister but out of politics and vendetta, he was removed, that is why we are were we are with the present sports minister who have managed things so badly.

Keshi may be a bad coach and I agree but please get a better replacement.

iammo6: i disagree with u....so are you saying Brazil ate what they vomitted when they employed Dunga as their chief coach?? Siasia should not have been sacked in the first place. He is by far better than Keshi

Goke7:

Dunga has just been employed after the world cup, let's see what he can do but everyone knows that the major problem of brazil is actually the lack of better quality players, apart from Neymar, the brazil side is an average team based on what we saw at the world cup. Dunga may not achieve anything special, he's been there before and brazil could not even get to the semi final of the world cup when he was coach.

Siasia must win the Nations cup and get to the quarter finals of a world cup before we can say he's better than keshi, anything else is just an assumption!

iammo6: compare Brazil's world cup squad to Nigeria's 2013 Nations cup squad, Nigeria is not anywhere near them...my point is, They(Brazil) over depended on Neymar which actually killed them but it doesnt really mean the rest of the squad lacks quality. I have no beef with Keshi but i never like his selection of players

Goke7:

and you think siasia has better selection than keshi?, do you remember siasia had problems with osaze too, do you remember he had issues with enyeama who was dropped for aiyenugba who cost us qualification for afcon 2012. Our problem is that we have short memories.

If you want to replace keshi, bring someone better and not a current jobless coach

chrisooblog: guess that's the problem who replaces keshi? honestly i think its too late to change coaches let keshi see us through this AFCON campaign but ideally i would prefer we get a dutch coach. a young, ambitious, tactical one who will be unknown so that we wont have to pay much plus i think the dutch style matches our own.

@goke7 bro dont think siasia was that bad. under him we played expansive attractive football. i think he was just unlucky and inexperienced to handle the big egos in the team. with time he will be back better

iammo6: recommend a better one

laplace19: Hope this is true,cos am just tired of Keshi..

He acts as if he doesn't care in most of our games if not all...
Even the way he sits and chew gums is very pestilential to me...


#teamSiasia#

buskie13: imagine him putting on a baseball hat the day we played SA....de guy hasn't been serious since de confederation's cup

laplace19:


Glad someone has also noticed his unseriousness...

Always feeling like he has arrived

Goke7:

any coach who has taken a national team to the quarterfinals of a world cup is okay by me, anything short of this is a joke!

dabossman: This is funny. The same Nigerians (including NFF) who clamoured for Siasia's sack are now calling for his return. When some of us said let him be, they said he was thrash, lacked tactical and technical know-how; the very same things they are accusing Keshi of now. So, we've gone full circle now abi?

I will keep saying it; our problem goes beyond coaching. There is a dearth of quality talent in our team. Majority of our players play in inferior leagues. Those who are in top leagues are either squad players or worse, bench warmers. Which Nigerian player at the moment is pivotal to the success of their club.

Sadly, rather than accept this and do their best to function as a team, our players feel larger than life and strut around the field feeling like super stars, expecting the opposition to just roll over and die. Most of them hardly progress in their careers. they are more concerned with money than personal development. David Beckham and Ronaldo are said to spend hours after team practice working on their free kicks. Are our players that devoted to developing their craft? We the fans don't help too with the way we over hype them.

We need to go back to the developmental level. We blame coaches for lack of tactics and technic forgetting that it is players that execute tactics. A coach can shout himself hoarse, but if players lack the technical ability to execute his tactics, it is an effort in futility. We need to develop more technical players. Players who are not just physical, but intelligent. Players who can think on their feet. But most importantly players who have a desire to be the best in the world and work constantly towards it. It is not enough for our youth players to excel at U-17 and then fade away. An it is not just a factor of age. Drogba did not become a household name until he was like 26. He was labelled a late bloomer. Even Okocha peeked in his late 20's. But their class could not be denied. That's not the case these days.

Siasia or Keshi, it's all good for me. Nigerians should however douse their overtly high expectations. Our players are not the best in the World or even Africa.

iammo6: you gotta be kidding.....

iammo6: compare Brazil's world cup squad to Nigeria's 2013 Nations cup squad, Nigeria is not anywhere near them.

hollandis:

Seconded

iammo6: i disagree with u....so are you saying Brazil ate what they vomitted when they employed Dunga as their chief coach?? Siasia should not have been sacked in the first place. He is by far better than Keshi