The NFF had drawn up a list of foreign coaches to handle the Super Eagles but the sports minister has questioned the rationale behind this, describing it “a fundamental contradiction not easy to swallow”.
The minister however said that using local coaches was worthwhile if they could rise above parochial politics.
“The selection of coach usually is handled by our technical team. We are a supervising ministry.' Dalung said, according to BusinessDay.
''We have little to do with the process but we have a role in guiding what is best for Nigeria. I have always maintained that if we cannot pay indigenous coaches, we still owe them some months of salaries, some of them have even died without those salaries.
“Do we still go and look for foreign coach and will he be able to tolerate us without salaries for some time more also that we may also be paying him in hard currency? So, it is a fundamental contradiction to swallow easily but there is one aspect of this indigenous coaching that has been responsible for the poor performance of football in Nigeria which Nigerians need to know.
“They have not been able to grow above their parochial sentiment. An example is that a coach will train a team, the team will qualify to go to the next stage, once it becomes international they will now submit a different list of people not the entire new people who qualified.This already has violated what is referred to as team spirit in football. A team that played is different from the one that is going. We have that crisis on our hands now, especially with the list of those who are going to Rio.
“Those who qualified are fundamentally different from those that have been sent to go and play at the finals. So, some people are only good to go and qualify and create room for others to go. That is one of the problems with indigenous coaching,”Dalung said.Previous coaches of the Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh, the late Shuaibu Amodu and Stephen Keshi complained of being owed salaries at one point or the other during their tenure.
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ReplyDelete************************evrytim una dey complain no money no money........ woxup with all d loots una dey recover???????? Buhari ji ya e treat abu nti....... na ebreak fast......
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ReplyDelete-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
THAT'S GOOD THO, SO WE TRAIN OURSELVES
ReplyDeleteAUNTY LINDA....
HE TOO HAS STARTED HIS OWN DRAMA; TODAY HE WILL SAY ONE AND TOMMOROW ANOTHER
ReplyDeleteOne can just imagine. So i guess they should gather our best local coaches and execute the matches.
ReplyDeleteAren't we over this already?
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#LibBadBoy
They would not owe a foreign coach but our own people
ReplyDeleteEva Da Diva...
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ReplyDeleteNice analysis
ReplyDeleteNFF, confused set of individuals.
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ReplyDeleteNahhh dey shld try it ooo what kind of nonsense is that,so we no get able hands to handle it anymore
ReplyDeleteKeep it in d family
ReplyDeleteI kind of doubt a coach is the problem. Me thinks it is from the NFA and the players. Lars Lagerback is now one of teh coaches of Iceland and he is succeeding.
ReplyDeleteBetter! Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteCan't stand this Solomon Dalung, always so fake, trying to dress like Che Guevara but giving off major lgbt vibes, let Buhari catch him and he'll be the first lgbt to be sent to prison under Nigeria's draconian law. Instead of employing a seasoned foreign coach he wants to chop the coach's salary. Fake idiot
ReplyDeleteMr. Minister, If you get brain you can generate funds from the millions of football fans in Nigeria. I need your job.
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