Icon4s:
Our grp is what u get when seeding is done according to that so called "Fifa ranking".

What is my take on our grp?

I have been keenly following our WC qualifiers since qualifiers for Italia '90 which commenced late 1988. I will say this is our toughest grouping.

When FIFA revised the seeding criteria and demoted us from pot2 to pot3, i knew any grp dat Nigeria falls in would b d grp of death.

What jst happened is the best teams from each of pots1,2,3&4 have been placed in grp B.

Men, this is a difficult grp in deed. It is even tougher than a typical WC grp. Cameroun, Nigeria and Algeria were at d 2014 WC, with Nigeria and Algeria reaching d second rnd. Zambia are 2012 Afcon winners-a highly gifted and experienced side.

Historically matches involving: Nigeria vs Cameroun, Nigeria vs Algeria and Nigeria vs Zambia have always proven to be explosive.
Who will ever forget the Nigeria vs Algeria clash right from 1980 AFCON to 1982 WC qualifiers double header played in 1981. What abt d Maroc '88 semi final and Algiers '90 opener and final match. We also faced Algeria enroute qualification to 1994 & 2006 WC. I can tell u dat each of those games was massive.

I need nt tell us how massive all d Nigeria vs Cameroun games have been. Right from the 1984 AFCON final, 1988 AFCON final, 1990 WC qualifiers, 1992 AFCON 3rd place match, 2000 AFCON final and 2004 AFCON quarter final.They were all big matches with big results.

Lastly Zambia. Our rivalry with Zambia may nt b as comparable with that of Algeria and Cameroun bt d rivalry is still strong. Right from 1994 AFCON to 2010 AFCON and 2013 AFCON. They have all been very close encounters. I personally see Zambia as d best footballing nation in the South of Africa.

Playing in Algiers, Yaounde and Lusaka can be some of d most dangerous places. It is always a full fledged war.However, thank God we are not going to Abidjan, Accra and Cairo. These 3 grnds to me are d most dangerous to visit.

Enough said.
So what are our chances?

Firstly, i will say I am so excited. I cant wait for the tourney to begin. Yes, bc this is also tougher than a typical AFCON grp. It is like d 2018 WC itself.
Put aside FIFA ranking. We know Nigeria is abt d greatest footballing nation in that grp. I am nt saying that makes us the favorites to go through bt dat makes us d most feared team in that grp.
Yes. Nigeria is d most unpredictable team in dat grp. Nigeria is d only team in dat grp that can raise a team dat can beat Brazil and subsequently find it difficult to beat a team like Tanzania. It simply means we have what it takes to top dat grp and also end at d bottom.

We have d potential and quality of players to do it. The area we always get it wrong is the NFF vs coaches rifts, choice of match venue, choice of players by d coaches and the underrating of d weaker opponents in our grp.

Nigreria can top that grp.

The NFF firstly needs to appoint a coach now. We need to chose a befiting home ground now. No body should pls take us to Kaduna or Kano where d weather would force us to drop some certain players. Abuja or Uyo to me would b appropriate. We have our final 2017 AFCON qualifiers game in September. Let us play dem on our chosen home ground and with d best of our players we hope to use to presecute the WC qualifiers. We can also use dat window to play another African team in a friendly to also prepare for d WC qualifiers.

The Rio Olympics is another opportunity for us to fully assess some of these young lads.

I know we are in a difficult group bt we all have to b optimistic.

By and large, we have seen us miss out at d 2006 WC and 2011, 2015 & 2017 AFCON. We must have developed a thick skin by now.
Anything can happen. We can only hope for d best for the team.

cc: TheGoodJoe, forgiveness, TheSuperNerd, safarigirl, Tbaba1234, terzurum5, Michael2, confun, joseph1033 ................

AIG07:

Hmmm... What can I call this?
Mehn that group is a kinda group Ghana, cote d'ivore n senegal won't pray to be... They must be smiling @us se we don enter one chance.

The last friendly matches our darling team played, was against d minnows in football(LUXEMBOURG N MALI) n our next match is against Tanzania in september(if i'm right). That means no room for big match prior to d qualifiers.
We need to win atleast all of our home matches before negotiating our chances of qualifying.

Our only hope of harnessing a strong n gelled team is d olympics. But with d list Sia1 just released today with our already established players not likely to be release has increased our odds of qualification.

Abeg make I sha keep quiet.

TheSuperNerd:


Actually, Our first game in that "Hell, Blood, Thunder and Death" group is NOT the "Almighty" Algeria....

It's actually Zambia away from home.



Here's Nigeria's Line-up of Fixtures:

Oct 3: Zambia vs Nigeria

Nov 7: Nigeria vs Algeria

Aug 28, 2017: Nigeria vs Cameroon

Sept 2, 2017: Cameroon vs Nigeria

Oct 2, 2017: Nigeria vs Zambia

Nov 6, 2017: Algeria vs Nigeria



In all my life of following the Beautiful game, Nigeria have never ever been in such "Hell, Blood, Thunder and Death" group.... not even our World cup groups of 1994, 1998, and 2002 beat this.


Well, Na so we am.... But oddly enough and surprisingly too... I am kinda looking forward to the qualifiers.


This is the period where our rising new golden generation matures.... whether they fail or succeed is one matter but their maturity is sure.

After the period of Russia 2018 (I hope to see us there against all hellish and deathly odds), Nigerian football will begin to make her marks again because by then Our Rising And New Golden Generation would have attained some big level of maturity as A TEAM.

My Mind is fixed on the Post-Russia 2018 era......


BUT ON RUSSIA 2018, AGAINST THESE ODDS OF ALL ODDS, THESUPERNERD REMAINS OPTIMISTIC....


You may beat us, but we won't be down long.... I promise. **winks**

TheSuperNerd:


Actually, Our first game in that "Hell, Blood, Thunder and Death" group is NOT the "Almighty" Algeria....

It's actually Zambia away from home.



Here's Nigeria's Line-up of Fixtures:

Oct 3: Zambia vs Nigeria

Nov 7: Nigeria vs Algeria

Aug 28, 2017: Nigeria vs Cameroon

Sept 2, 2017: Cameroon vs Nigeria

Oct 2, 2017: Nigeria vs Zambia

Nov 6, 2017: Algeria vs Nigeria



In all my life of following the Beautiful game, Nigeria have never ever been in such "Hell, Blood, Thunder and Death" group.... not even our World cup groups of 1994, 1998, and 2002 beat this.


Well, Na so we am.... But oddly enough and surprisingly too... I am kinda looking forward to the qualifiers.


This is the period where our rising new golden generation matures.... whether they fail or succeed is one matter but their maturity is sure.

After the period of Russia 2018 (I hope to see us there against all hellish and deathly odds), Nigerian football will begin to make her marks again because by then Our Rising And New Golden Generation would have attained some big level of maturity as A TEAM.

My Mind is fixed on the Post-Russia 2018 era......


BUT ON RUSSIA 2018, AGAINST THESE ODDS OF ALL ODDS, THESUPERNERD REMAINS OPTIMISTIC....


You may beat us, but we won't be down long.... I promise. **winks**

joseph1013:
Then by definition, based on your answer, you are the optimistic one, while he is the realistic one.

While you say we have emerged from such in the past, it is not true. This is the most difficult group we have ever been put in for a World Cup qualification. He is right to say that in the recent past we have flunked far easier groups. Therefore judging the future by the past, he is just been real about our chances especially when you add the NFF factor.

I don't see how his sanity is in question here and why he deserves to be hated.

Icon4s:
Our grp is what u get when seeding is done according to that so called "Fifa ranking".

What is my take on our grp?

I have been keenly following our WC qualifiers since qualifiers for Italia '90 which commenced late 1988. I will say this is our toughest grouping.

When FIFA revised the seeding criteria and demoted us from pot2 to pot3, i knew any grp dat Nigeria falls in would b d grp of death.

What jst happened is the best teams from each of pots1,2,3&4 have been placed in grp B.

Men, this is a difficult grp in deed. It is even tougher than a typical WC grp. Cameroun, Nigeria and Algeria were at d 2014 WC, with Nigeria and Algeria reaching d second rnd. Zambia are 2012 Afcon winners-a highly gifted and experienced side.

Historically matches involving: Nigeria vs Cameroun, Nigeria vs Algeria and Nigeria vs Zambia have always proven to be explosive.
Who will ever forget the Nigeria vs Algeria clash right from 1980 AFCON to 1982 WC qualifiers double header played in 1981. What abt d Maroc '88 semi final and Algiers '90 opener and final match. We also faced Algeria enroute qualification to 1994 & 2006 WC. I can tell u dat each of those games was massive.

I need nt tell us how massive all d Nigeria vs Cameroun games have been. Right from the 1984 AFCON final, 1988 AFCON final, 1990 WC qualifiers, 1992 AFCON 3rd place match, 2000 AFCON final and 2004 AFCON quarter final.They were all big matches with big results.

Lastly Zambia. Our rivalry with Zambia may nt b as comparable with that of Algeria and Cameroun bt d rivalry is still strong. Right from 1994 AFCON to 2010 AFCON and 2013 AFCON. They have all been very close encounters. I personally see Zambia as d best footballing nation in the South of Africa.

Playing in Algiers, Yaounde and Lusaka can be some of d most dangerous places. It is always a full fledged war.However, thank God we are not going to Abidjan, Accra and Cairo. These 3 grnds to me are d most dangerous to visit.

Enough said.
So what are our chances?

Firstly, i will say I am so excited. I cant wait for the tourney to begin. Yes, bc this is also tougher than a typical AFCON grp. It is like d 2018 WC itself.
Put aside FIFA ranking. We know Nigeria is abt d greatest footballing nation in that grp. I am nt saying that makes us the favorites to go through bt dat makes us d most feared team in that grp.
Yes. Nigeria is d most unpredictable team in dat grp. Nigeria is d only team in dat grp that can raise a team dat can beat Brazil and subsequently find it difficult to beat a team like Tanzania. It simply means we have what it takes to top dat grp and also end at d bottom.

We have d potential and quality of players to do it. The area we always get it wrong is the NFF vs coaches rifts, choice of match venue, choice of players by d coaches and the underrating of d weaker opponents in our grp.

Nigreria can top that grp.

The NFF firstly needs to appoint a coach now. We need to chose a befiting home ground now. No body should pls take us to Kaduna or Kano where d weather would force us to drop some certain players. Abuja or Uyo to me would b appropriate. We have our final 2017 AFCON qualifiers game in September. Let us play dem on our chosen home ground and with d best of our players we hope to use to presecute the WC qualifiers. We can also use dat window to play another African team in a friendly to also prepare for d WC qualifiers.

The Rio Olympics is another opportunity for us to fully assess some of these young lads.

I know we are in a difficult group bt we all have to b optimistic.

By and large, we have seen us miss out at d 2006 WC and 2011, 2015 & 2017 AFCON. We must have developed a thick skin by now.
Anything can happen. We can only hope for d best for the team.

cc: TheGoodJoe, forgiveness, TheSuperNerd, safarigirl, Tbaba1234, terzurum5, Michael2, confun, joseph1033 ................

Icon4s:
Our grp is what u get when seeding is done according to that so called "Fifa ranking".

What is my take on our grp?

I have been keenly following our WC qualifiers since qualifiers for Italia '90 which commenced late 1988. I will say this is our toughest grouping.

When FIFA revised the seeding criteria and demoted us from pot2 to pot3, i knew any grp dat Nigeria falls in would b d grp of death.

What jst happened is the best teams from each of pots1,2,3&4 have been placed in grp B.

Men, this is a difficult grp in deed. It is even tougher than a typical WC grp. Cameroun, Nigeria and Algeria were at d 2014 WC, with Nigeria and Algeria reaching d second rnd. Zambia are 2012 Afcon winners-a highly gifted and experienced side.

Historically matches involving: Nigeria vs Cameroun, Nigeria vs Algeria and Nigeria vs Zambia have always proven to be explosive.
Who will ever forget the Nigeria vs Algeria clash right from 1980 AFCON to 1982 WC qualifiers double header played in 1981. What abt d Maroc '88 semi final and Algiers '90 opener and final match. We also faced Algeria enroute qualification to 1994 & 2006 WC. I can tell u dat each of those games was massive.

I need nt tell us how massive all d Nigeria vs Cameroun games have been. Right from the 1984 AFCON final, 1988 AFCON final, 1990 WC qualifiers, 1992 AFCON 3rd place match, 2000 AFCON final and 2004 AFCON quarter final.They were all big matches with big results.

Lastly Zambia. Our rivalry with Zambia may nt b as comparable with that of Algeria and Cameroun bt d rivalry is still strong. Right from 1994 AFCON to 2010 AFCON and 2013 AFCON. They have all been very close encounters. I personally see Zambia as d best footballing nation in the South of Africa.

Playing in Algiers, Yaounde and Lusaka can be some of d most dangerous places. It is always a full fledged war.However, thank God we are not going to Abidjan, Accra and Cairo. These 3 grnds to me are d most dangerous to visit.

Enough said.
So what are our chances?

Firstly, i will say I am so excited. I cant wait for the tourney to begin. Yes, bc this is also tougher than a typical AFCON grp. It is like d 2018 WC itself.
Put aside FIFA ranking. We know Nigeria is abt d greatest footballing nation in that grp. I am nt saying that makes us the favorites to go through bt dat makes us d most feared team in that grp.
Yes. Nigeria is d most unpredictable team in dat grp. Nigeria is d only team in dat grp that can raise a team dat can beat Brazil and subsequently find it difficult to beat a team like Tanzania. It simply means we have what it takes to top dat grp and also end at d bottom.

We have d potential and quality of players to do it. The area we always get it wrong is the NFF vs coaches rifts, choice of match venue, choice of players by d coaches and the underrating of d weaker opponents in our grp.

Nigreria can top that grp.

The NFF firstly needs to appoint a coach now. We need to chose a befiting home ground now. No body should pls take us to Kaduna or Kano where d weather would force us to drop some certain players. Abuja or Uyo to me would b appropriate. We have our final 2017 AFCON qualifiers game in September. Let us play dem on our chosen home ground and with d best of our players we hope to use to presecute the WC qualifiers. We can also use dat window to play another African team in a friendly to also prepare for d WC qualifiers.

The Rio Olympics is another opportunity for us to fully assess some of these young lads.

I know we are in a difficult group bt we all have to b optimistic.

By and large, we have seen us miss out at d 2006 WC and 2011, 2015 & 2017 AFCON. We must have developed a thick skin by now.
Anything can happen. We can only hope for d best for the team.

cc: TheGoodJoe, forgiveness, TheSuperNerd, safarigirl, Tbaba1234, terzurum5, Michael2, confun, joseph1033 ................

safarigirl:
Basically, this group pits the best teams from each part of the continent against each other.

Like observed by many on here, this will easily be the group of death of all groups of death. you can't even get such a grouping at the World Cup, I don't even think England would finish second or third in this group, even Belgium will struggle for a second place position.


I can only take solace in the fact that we turn up for the big games, just when the SE have been counted out, they shock everyone.

i'm hoping for the best, hoping we can pull out the needed results and we have to start with getting a great result in Lusaka, that game and our home game against Algeria will strongly determine our fate.

funny enough, i'm least afraid of Cameroon. it's names like Riyad Mahrez, Slimani, Feghouli and Brahimi that have me cringing.

October is still a long time, the EPL will be in full swing by then, a lot can happen by that time. Mahrez may not be as deadly as he was last season, forms will drop and teams will be built. so yeah, we await October 3rd

Orkpekyandega:
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SUPER EAGLES COACH: PINNICK WANTS STEFANOVIC, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PUSHING FOR PAUL LE GUEN
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A new coach for the Super Eagles of Nigeria might not be announced in the next two weeks as planned unless there is a swift resolution to the disagreement about who gets the job between French man Paul Le Guen and Serbian’s Goran Stefanovic.


Stefanovic is the preferred choice of president of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick, who is keen on the Serb’s abilities due to his wealth of experience especially in Africa and affordability in comparism to other coaches who will certainly demand more in terms of salary.


However members of the Technical Committee of the NFF are convinced that French man Paul Le Guen is the most qualified candidate for the job based on his pedigree and heroics with Cameroun in the run up to the 2010 World Cup where he qualified them from an almost impossible situation after taking over the job midway through the qualifiers.


Members of the Technical committee believe that Le Guen has the pedigree that will naturally command respect from players of the Super Eagles which will help bring the much needed sanity and discipline the football house is trying to instill in the senior national team.


The row could drag on further and possibly delay the annoucement of a coach for the Super Eagles who are still without a manager despite been drawn in a tough World Cup 2018 group that include Algeria,Cameroun and Zambia.
http://owngoalnigeria.com/2016/06/27/super-eagles-coach-pinnick-wants-stefanovic-technical-committee-pushing-for-paul-le-guen/
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lakesidepapa:


I think PAUL LE GUEN is far better and will be okay for the eagles with this his profile i red on wikipedia unlike the Stevanovic which his profile is not more intimated at all.. PAUL is full of experience unlike the latter.

TheGoodJoe:


There are both nothing far from mediocre coaches. Why spend so much money for Coaches who have mediocre records? What is their philosophy? What is their style of play? What will they bring in to our team.

This debate is terrible and shows that these so called Technical committee people are far from the kind of people we need running our football.

We should be fighting for Bielsa, Sampaoli who were former Chile Coaches. There are better coaches who have a lot to add to our teams.

What makes these men better than Coach Salisu Yusuf? White Skin?

Why not organize a top friendly game and let us assess if Coach Salisu Yusuf is good enough before running and spending money from Coaches who have weak coaching honors.

Mickael2:
Hey! My God!!! Who is Paul Le Chinchin again?!!!!! I thought they were fighting to appoint a better coach but Le Chinchin?! My God! We have many good coaches out there, top coaches who are currently unemployed, why these guys?! Southgate is even a better choice! We have better choices please

TheGoodJoe:


I do not understand this NFF. We should be thinking of pulling a memorable AFCON and World Cup with the talents we have. Look at the level their thinking.

The members of the NFF should call Bielsa. If he says no, call Sampaoli if he says no, call Leonardo. There is a big chance Leonardo will take the job. He has an eye for talents. Just as he helped discover Pato and Kaka for AC Milan. He helped discover Coutinho for Inter Milan.

Leonardo plays a creative beautiful brand of 4-4-2 that requires creative and attacking players that will suit of creative attacking young Stars. His style of play is similar to that of the great Brazilian team of the eighties with Zico and Socrates.

The NFF should set their targets high.

Mickael2:


the NFF won't do listen to you even if they see this your post, why? Because you are making a lot of sense and frankly, the NFF just likes rubbish. I think the agents of these coaches are meeting them specially or something if not can someone please explain to me why a country like Nigeria would ever invite a coach like Berti Vogts for screening talkless of actually employing him, this is criminal injustice!

semid4lyfe:
Nigerian football fans are more confused than the characters in NFF

#Deliberately cryptic

By Clement Nwankpa Jnr

TheSuperNerd:
Based on the way things are now.... I concur with the writer.

Especially on the point of a new generation of coaches still maturing in Nigerian football like Emmanuel Amuneke (my eyes are really on him), Imama Amapakabo, Kennedy Boboye, Audu Maikaba, Manu Garba and Salisu Yusuf....

Let them mature while we appoint a "quality" foreign coach. Let's tell ourselves the truth here based on current happenings.

Note: Dalung and his cowboys in the sports ministry better not interfere with the issue of a foreign coach. Their cluelessness is absolutely irritating.
.........................…............................................................


OPINION: Yes, Nigeria need a foreign coach





"We are looking for the best man for the job, not the best English man" - English FA chief, Martin Glein on the next Three Lions coach.


What else do I need to buttress my position than this quote? These are the inventors of the game but for the third time in recent times, they are not ruling out the possibility of a foreigner taking charge of the national team.


There is a proposal to have U21 coach Gareth Southgate on interim basis for about a year to supervise the World Cup qualifiers.

He could land the job on permanent basis afterwards, but the FA know his limitations and the odds against him. They have Claudio Ranieri and Arsene Wenger on their wishlist in the long term.


But here we are contesting the rationale behind NFF's decision to hire a foreign coach. You could argue against the delay in hiring the foreign coach given the enormity of the assignment at hand; you could also contest the quality and qualification of the in-coming coach; but you can't contest the fact that we need to look beyond these shores this time.


Nobody can comfortably argue in favour of an indigenous coach being at the helm of the national team during these World Cup qualifiers. We have stood behind them for eight years now.


Yes, beyond the four months Lars Lagerback was on the saddle in 2010, local coaches have been in charge since 2008. During this period, we have used six of them namely Shuaibu Amodu, Austin Eguavoen, Samson Siasia, Stephen Keshi, Sunday Oliseh and Salisu Yusuf. But where is our football today?



In six AFCONs during this period (if you include the already bungled AFCON 2017), we have missed four. We have not been to three of the last four and for the first time, we are missing AFCON back-to-back. So, from being the traditional bronze medalists at AFCON, we are no longer guaranteed a ticket which the likes of Cape Verde now secure with more ease.


This is where the confidence reposed on our indigenous coaches for the last eight years has placed us. So if you were the NFF president today, would you still go for an indigenous coach? What indices would you be relying on to take such a decision?


If you keep doing something the same way and it is not working wouldn't you do it differently and see if it works. If you persist on that faulty formula, that is the definition of FOOLISHNESS.



Most of the countries bossing us on the continent today have foreign coaches. We keep sticking to what we have and keep retrogressing. At the risk of being lampooned by the indigenous coaches and their apologists (as if I hate them more), the truth must be told.



We have exhausted all we have here and nothing seems to be working. There is a new generation of coaches coming up like Emmanuel Amuneke, Imama Amapakabo and Kennedy Boboye. We have to wait for them to develop but before then, a foreigner should be on the saddle.




We need somebody who doesn't know anybody here; that will not take recourse to any players agent. We need somebody to eschew sentiments; extend invitations and make selections on merit and bring us back to winning ways.


Yes, our football is at that point when we must get our playing personnel spot on to move on. May be I'm being so blunt; but the fact is that questionable selections, biased invitations fueled by ' paddy paddy ' players’ agents have been the bane of our national team for the past eight years.



That is what has brought us to where we are today.

That is what has brought this GIANT down to its knees.

That is what has made this ELEPHANT a prey for ANTS.


At some point, England fell back on the likes Sven Goran Erickson and Fabio Capello. Now they have failed again with an indigenous coach and have not ruled out the possibility of hiring a foreign coach.



Perhaps, we will also argue that we have better indigenous coaches than England. Will we also contend that we have more established internationals than a country that has the likes of Alan Shearer, Rio Ferdinand and Garry Neville also eyeing the job. But they are simply being frank with themselves.


I'm more concerned with how soon this new foreign coach will be unveiled. The argument to allow a local coach execute the October World Cup qualifier doesn't hold water.

Our group opponents Algeria just signed on a Serbian coach. This announcement should not go beyond next week. Three months is ample time to prosecute a World Cup qualifier and get a result.


Of course, he will have the formality AFCON qualifier against Tanzania to get a good look at his boys in a competitive setting.


We also have to be concerned about the qualifications of the coach. We are not looking for a Pep Guardiola or Jose Mourinho, but we could get a decent enough coach. The fact is that the Guardiolas don't come to Africa. Most of the coaches who come to this continent hone their stuff here. We may not get a Grade A coach but we can get a grade B or C+ but not a D. Once we sort out the timing and the quality of the coach, it's okay.


Let's do what we have not been doing for the past eight years - hand a foreign coach a long-term contract.
We will come back to our indigenous coaches, they are here with us. But we need a REVOLUTION...





Source: http://africanfootball.com/mobi/mobi.php?page=article&ID=632507

lakesidepapa:
The Algeria Football Federation have appointed
former Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac as their
new national coach... Milovan is better than those coaches NFF is roaming with.. Anyway, they need to think and act fast..

TheGoodJoe:
Another person writing with just one side of the problem. The fact is that, a local Coach is the best Coach who ran Nigerian football. That means our local coaches can achieve.

Our problem is not local coaches but myopic people running our football. This last qualifiers we played would have been difficult for any Coach, whether local or foreign after Niger pulled out of the qualifiers. It was only the winner of the group to qualify. Not just local coaches.

It was the NFF that chose an unqualified Sunday Oliseh over a lot of qualified Nigerian coaches with experience.

It will be myopic if this person thinks a foreign Coach will come and reign supreme. Be the A and Amen of the team. There was a report that said Paul Le Guen wants Okocha to work as his assistant coach and the NFF men kicked against it. That is a sign to show that the coach's words are not final.

We need to be creative when selecting a coach. Find rising gems.

We have employed Foreign coaches and they were not better than sticking with our local coaches. Trousierre did not bring much better than Amodu. Trousierre's assistant, Coach Monday Sinclair proved he was a better Coach and understood what we needed to succeed. Sinclair's Super Eagles was a better side than the foreign Trousierre.

Lars Lagerback and Berti Vogts were not better than Coach Keshi. Coach Keshi beat foreign coaches in African Football. So what are these guys saying.

Another problem is the quick fix mentality. We want our problems solved overnight. A foreign Coach will not wave his magic wand and have us playing like Argentina. Just like Westerhoff, we need the to grow.

Even if we are going for a foreign Coach, we need to give he Coach time. Not if the coach fails to qualify, we sack. The NFF members should chill also. If you get a coach, thy should support the coach. Not fight the coach as Pinnick did with Coach Keshi. Refused to pay him and kept on shouting we need a better Coach. Only for the same Pinnick to call Coach Oliseh the Guardiola of Africa.

Left to me, Keep Salisu Yusuf on a temporary basis. Organize a tough friendly for him and see if he is good enough. If he does well like Draw or beat Germany or Belgium, there is no need spending a fortune on a Foreign Coach. Support him by paying his salary regularly and do not interfere with his work.

Then Prepare for Amunike.