With the sacking of the Stephen
Keshi as coach of the Super Eagles,
some Nigerian coaches have started
lobbying and jostling for the
national team job.
Former Super Eagles coach,
Adegboye Onigbinde, who said this
during a telephone interview with
our correspondent, said some
indigenous coaches have sent
emails to him seeking his support
for the Eagles job.
Onigbinde said Ni geria still has a
few coaches, who are intelligent and
experienced enough to coach the
Eagles successfully, and dismissed
the call for a foreign coach for the
national team.
He added that the removal of Keshi
may affect the Eagles, considering
that Keshi’s replacement would
come with a new programme and
may choose a different set of
players.
Onigbinde said, “I’ve been reading
stories of some people saying we
should bring in a foreign coach but
I don’t think that is the major
problem of Nigerian football. I
don’t want to be personal, and
modesty will not allow me to say
some things here. I know the
politics of some of these coaches.
Some of them have sent emails to
me thinking I’m in the position to
help them; that they have applied
and so on. It’s not my business. As
of now, I’m not an insider in the
running of Nigerian football. I’m
just an observer.
“I cannot start mentioning names,
but I know there are some
intelligent experienced coaches in
this country who only need to be
brushed up and they will fall in line.
The major problem of Nigeria is
that we are not running a system of
what you know but who you know;
a system of who is right and not
what is right. It is not only in
sports.”
He added, “I was part of the system
that brought Keshi into the Eagles
job. Two coaches were shortlisted. I
was a member of the technical
committee, I did not know when the
position was advertised; I did not
know how many people applied; I
did not know when they were
shortlisted. I was just one of the 10
invited to interview Keshi and
Samson Siasia. After the interview,
one funny thing happened. Ten of
us were in the panel; nobody
collated our points before Siasia
was announced to the press.
“Then after Siasia’s last match,
which was against Guinea. There
was an emergency meeting of the
technical committee that night. We
had serious competitions at hand
and we were thinking of advertising
and inviting coaches for interview.
Then I chipped in and said we
interviewed two of them. One, we
claim has failed, why don’t we bring
in the other person. That was how
Keshi came in. At any rate, during
the interview, I said Keshi was
better.
www.punchng.com/sports/coaches-lobbying-to-replace-keshi-onigbinde/

Honestly foreign coach is not our problem our own indigenous coaches can even do better.

Onigbinde abegi go siddon!

am very sure if the new coach fails to dance to the tune of NFF, he will be butted out like keshi