My biggest disappointment with the Pinnick led NFF thus far has been their failure to name a substantive coach for Super Eagles months after Keshi’s team failed to qualify for AFCON 2015. Though Pinnick’s board has been able to put together a number of friendlies for the Eagles, these games won’t achieve much and don’t really make sense without the team having a substantive coach. In a few months another set of qualifiers for the next AFCON will begin, sadly however, Nigeria is firmly on the same road that led to Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the AFCON in 2012. After the 2010 world cup, Sampson SIasia on the strength of his achievements with the junior teams was by far the fans’ choice to be appointed Super Eagles coach. But the football authorities, as usual, failed to act decisively. They kept dillydallying, and by the time they finally got to appoint Siasia, AFCON qualifiers was already well in process, and in fact Austin Eguavoen had already taken the team to play and lose a crucial qualifying game in Guinea. In the end, Siasia was sacked for failing to qualify for AFCON despite that he did not lose any of the qualifying games he played and was not the one who started the qualifiers. The decision to sack Siasia was a bad one, but that is a different topic all together. With the next AFCON qualifiers starting soon and the NFF failing to act decisively in appointing a substantive coach for Super Eagles, all seems set for the Eagles to travel that same road that led to failure to qualify for 2012 AFCON again.

Lack of good talented players playing regularly for top teams is one thing, but when management fails then there is no hope.
We are doomed to repeat the failures of the past. A country blessed with smart intellectuals and we do the dumbest things.

Is it by force that keshi coach us? Go and coach and improve and come back or go and take a course he no gri....

Keshi please leave our football alone. Your contributions are appreciated.