Following the recent comment by the Nigeria Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick that the NFF is earnestly shopping for a ‘Heavyweight’ coach for the Super Eagles due to the failure of Oliseh’s team to score goals.
With Sunday Oliseh, Jean Francois, Salisu Yusuf, Aloy Agu making the technical crew of the Super Eagles, the question is: Are these hands not good enough to manage the national team?
Who is the ‘Heavyweight’ coach that the NFF is hiring for the senior national team at a time national team coaches have not been paid salaries for months.
The same NFF president sang Oliseh’s praise few months saying the 41-year old is the Pep Guardiola of Africa, but just five months down the line, Pinnick is singing a new song.
Should Pinnick make such comments just five months of Oliseh’s helm with the Super Eagles? That sound like an indictment against the coach.
Also, comparing Oliseh with a more exposed, renowned and highly tactical coach like Pep Guardiola is like putting the young Oliseh under pressure.
Although the Eagles have not been scoring goals, but that is not a justified reason for the NFF to make such statement of hiring a ‘Heavyweight’ coach.
Who and where is the ‘Heavyweight’ coach coming from. Where will the NFF get the money to pay the ‘Heavyweight’ coach, where some national team coaches, official and players are been own salaries?
No money to pay the U-23 and CHAN Eagles are yet get fund from the NFF want to hire a Heavyweight coach.
Has Oliseh performed badly so far?
Oliseh is barley five months in charge of the Eagles and has not performed badly for such statements and should be given more time to o his job. The process of building a formidable team is a continuous process and not automatic.
Will the ‘Heavyweight’ coach teach the Eagles how to score goals?
Are the NFF ‘Heavyweight’ administrators?
Anthony Nlebem
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