Sports Minister Solomon Dalung has disagreed with the Nigeria Football Federation’s quest to get a foreign coach for the Super Eagles, after they were eliminated from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations and insisted that Coach Samson Siasia should continue.
National Under-23 coach, Samson Siasia took charge of the Super Eagles for the crucial tie against the Pharaohs of Egypt. Though the Eagles had more of the ball possession they failed to score more than one goal in the two legged tie.
This prompted the NFF president Amaju Pinnick to declare his desperation for a foreign coach.
But Dalung while speaking to Vanguard's newsmen in Abuja refused to toe the line of the NFF, and with his speech, he seem to have backed coach Siasia for the job of leading the Eagles.
“The hiring and firing of coaches is a problem, when shall we have an end to it? In my view, we place personal interest above national interest.
“You don’t access a coach with one match. You give him ample opportunity and generate correct data to access his performance.
“The hiring and firing of coaches just on one performance speaks volumes of senses of judgement and it does not augur well for our football. It must stop now,” said the sports minister.
Meanwhile the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick is expected to meet with the minister on Tuesday and top on the agenda is the issue of hiring a foreign coach for the national team.
Solomon Dalung,please where do i send your kisses to?I mean a million kisses!!!!
If we are being urged to patronise made in Nigeria 'goods'. A coach should also be one of them.
Mr Pinnick abeg excuse me!..Foreign coach indeed!
Gbam!!! How can we be thinking foreign coach again. Mtscheww we still dey talk how to grow naira now we will be thinking how to pay someone in dollars. #buymadeinnigeria hehehehehehe ntorrr
ReplyDeleteGbam!!! How can we be thinking foreign coach again. Mtscheww we still dey talk how to grow naira now we will be thinking how to pay someone in dollars. #buymadeinnigeria hehehehehehe ntorrr
ReplyDeleteI stand with him on this
ReplyDeleteLike say na two heads the foreign coaches get.
ReplyDeleteDont mind that Pinnick or whatever his name is. You cannot support your own. Everytime foreign foreign, who e epp
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Anything dem like make dem do. If them like let dem bring made in Aba coach I no like our players again
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ReplyDeleteWhat's with a foreign coach again? Nigerians believe anything good must be foreign
ReplyDeleteEven if we bring in José under this FA with the way our FA is structure he will fail.
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ReplyDelete#PatroniseMadeInNigeriaCoach.
ReplyDeleteThe sport minister is 101% right
You don't throw the baby with the bath water because of some minor irregularities that can be corrected.
This country don't seems to get things right I simply don't understand, is it bcos we re so agitated for swift result?
*Sigh*
BTW will the said coach be paid in naira? Same equivalent as Samson Siasia?
I want to strongly believe Mr Pinnick was bribed.
*Sigh*
Good for them
ReplyDeleteIf they bring foreign coach they should also bring foreign players oooh, what's wrong in supporting our own? I thought they said Sunday Olise is a world class coach, what happened with him? Our problem is not the coaches or players, it's with the structure and administration of the governing body of football in Nigeria and until something is done about that even if they like let them go and bring Sir Ferguson from retirement, nothing will change the situation period
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