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Nigerian govt. won't pay for foreign coach - Minister
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Lars Lagerback was Nigeria's last foreign Coach

by Samm Audu

Wednesday Apr 06, 2016. 17:21
Nigerian sports minister Solomon Dalung has made it very clear the country’s government will not pay the salaries of a foreign coach for the Super Eagles.


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are pushing for a foreign coach to take charge of the Super Eagles ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, which begin in October, after the three-time African champions failed to qualify for the AFCON a second straight time.


An official informed AfricanFootball.com: “The minister made it very clear during his meeting with the NFF on Tuesday that the government will not pay for a foreign coach and he does not expect the NFF to use the subvention they receive from the government to pay such a coach.”


Another official further disclosed,” What the minister really wants is that in four weeks, the NFF will come back with how they hope to pay for a foreign coach.

“If they can prove they can afford it, he will not stop them from hiring such a coach.”

NFF president Amaju Pinnick has been quoted as saying he will get a private company to offset the salaries of a foreign coach.


The NFF had earlier announced that the salaries of Sunday Oliseh will be borne by a top commercial bank, but by the time the coach quit his post he was owed three months’ pay.
http://africanfootball.com/news/624353/Nigerian-govt-won-t-pay-for-foreign-coach-Minister
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forgiveness:
April 10, 2016 ↔

5 Reasons Why Super Eagles Need Foreign Coach


After the Super Eagles failure to qualify for the 2016 African Cup of Nations in Gabon and with a substantive head coach yet to be named, Completesportsnigeria.com’s JOHNNY EDWARD offers five reasons why the Nigerian Football Federation should hire a foreign coach…


1. Battered reputation of Nigerian coaches
After the 2013 African Nations Cup triumph, the Super Eagles have had three indigenous coaches in charge and that hasn’t helped the team from a steady decline three years on.
Importantly, the reputation and tactical acumen which the foreign coach will bring to the Super Eagles will be an invaluable asset during what will presumably be a phase of restructuring.
The Nigerian coaches’ inability to qualify for the African Nations Cup for a second straight time has seen the country’s football at a crossroads. So hiring a technically sound coach could see the country instantly propelled back to the top with the right mix of talent, team bonding and NFF support.
The Super Eagles need a manager who can command the immediate attention and respect of the so-called ‘senior men’. Past coaches of the team have had issues curbing the excesses of these influential figures in the team which ultimately cost the team the AFCON ticket.
And of course not only can a foreign coach do just that, but can even inspire the likes of Mikel Obi, Ogenyi Onazi Victor Moses, Elderson Echiejile and the emerging talents like Alex Iwobi and Kelechi Iheanacho to become leaders and winners.

2. Tactics
Currently the Super Eagles don’t have a defined style of play. What has been noticed recently is that the team often times showed naivety and a lack of quality both in attack and defence and have relied heavily on some individual brilliance to pull through in recent games.
The Super Eagles need a coach who can harness the current crop of emerging talent and use them effectively in their desired roles.
For instance, Mikel Obi is a player who has been a key member of the national team for over a decade and features for one of England’s biggest clubs Chelsea and yet Mikel has never hit the heights he promised since bursting onto the scene in 2005.
Some blame his lack of tactical application in game situations and his inability to become a thinking player like the Okocha’s and Nwankwo Kanus of this world.
Having stretched the Egyptians above board in the first leg draw in Kaduna, Coach Samson Siasia team never looked like a team that had a plan B to outwit a determined and resilient Pharoahs side in Alexandra. The team needs a bench that thinks faster.

3 Nigerian coaches can’t be trusted in player selection
Under the watch of local coaches, the Super Eagles have seen players nowhere near as good as their predecessors called up to represent the country.
Whether or not it’s the local coaches who selects the players, they surely have final say, and under their tutelage Nigerians have seen players not deserving of a place in the Eagles training.
Coach Samson Siasia needed a massive campaign on Twitter to call up Nigeria’s most in- form defender Leon Balogun for in his list of 21 foreign-based players for the Egypt games but there were places for Aminu Umar, Stanley Amuzie who has played two games since recovering from a cruciate ligament injury for Portuguese Second division side Olhanese and U-23s skipper Azubuike Okechukwu who was handed his debut in a crucial game against Egypt.
Sunday Oliseh too brought in average players like Rabiu Ibrahim, Haruna Lukman, Izunna Izuchukwu and Sylvester Igboun. Stephen Keshi had his own low-standard players like Reuben Gabriel, Michael Uchebo and the like.

4. Indigenous coaches don’t know their best team
There are lots of examples of managers whose tinkering on the job works for them. It has certainly not worked for Samson Siasia and his predecessors.
At the expense of a more experienced Ogenyi Onazi and Elderson Echiejile, Siasia opted to start his inexperienced Olympic players Azubuike Okechukwu and Stanley Amuzie which cost the team in Alexandra.
He also started Moses Simon and Alex Iwobi on the bench in the second leg despite been impressive in the first leg in Kaduna. The duo would have fared better than Ahmed Musa and Aminu Umar who started.
This also happened often under Oliseh and Keshi.

5. Nigerian coaches’ inability to motivate
Past coaches have failed to motivate the invited players to the Super Eagles due to their methods in favoring one player to the other which has left most of them looking woefully short of confidence.
The past three coaches had a knack for calling up their favourites for games at the expense of players who could actually make impact in games.
That defeat to Egypt which finally nailed Nigeria was a good example of the Eagles coming off second-best in a majority of the duels; not making good use of the ball, even though they played a possession game.
In such a scenario, a motivator who employs strategies to increase team unity and create a ‘siege mentality’, which makes his teams stubborn in defence and ruthless in attack was needed. A seasoned European coach should be able to do it.

http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/2/825095759?-21310:8643

http://www.completesportsnigeria.com/5-reasons-super-eagles-need-foreign-coach/

TheGoodJoe:


Whoever wrote this article needs to study football better. He is so illogical with his point.

Every point he made sounds ridiculous.


How can our Local coaches have battered reputations after the Successes of Coach Keshi.

Coach Oliseh can not stand as the reputation of local coaches.

Talking of tactics, Coach Siasia stood toe to toe with one of the bright brains of European Football. In the first leg, he outplayed the Egyptians and the one with a lucky late goal after refusing to handover the ball. Ignoring fair play.

The player selection was not that poor. We had two injuries that took away the chance of making appropriate changes to change the game. Etebo and Amuzie injured. That is two changes which can affect a coach's tactical plan.

“I respect the Super Eagles players and I was edgy during the game but I’m happy we have been able to pull through. It’s a shame Nigeria won’t be at the Africa Cup of Nations,”...Hector Cuper (Egypt's Coach)

This journalists and Pinnick made it look as if it was all bad.

Is it not silly to suggest that the indigenous coaches do not know the best team and then suggest a foreign coach? How many Nigerian players do these foreign coaches watch?

Saying Nigerian coaches lack the ability to motivate is one of the most myopic things I have ever heard. Can this journalist show me a coach that can motivate their players to play for years without allowances?

TheGoodJoe:


Whoever wrote this article needs to study football better. He is so illogical with his point.

Every point he made sounds ridiculous.


How can our Local coaches have battered reputations after the Successes of Coach Keshi.

Coach Oliseh can not stand as the reputation of local coaches.

Talking of tactics, Coach Siasia stood toe to toe with one of the bright brains of European Football. In the first leg, he outplayed the Egyptians and they drew with a lucky late goal after refusing to handover the ball. Ignoring fair play.

The player selection was not that poor. We had two injuries that took away the chance of making appropriate changes to change the game. Etebo and Amuzie injured. That is two changes which can affect a coach's tactical plan.

“I respect the Super Eagles players and I was edgy during the game but I’m happy we have been able to pull through. It’s a shame Nigeria won’t be at the Africa Cup of Nations,”...Hector Cuper (Egypt's Coach)

This journalists and Pinnick made it look as if it was all bad.

Is it not silly to suggest that the indigenous coaches do not know the best team and then suggest a foreign coach? How many Nigerian players do these foreign coaches watch?

Saying Nigerian coaches lack the ability to motivate is one of the most myopic things I have ever heard. Can this journalist show me a coach that can motivate their players to play for years without allowances?

TheSuperNerd:
I had mixed feelings when I read through the article. It was written by a complete sports journalist, Johnny Edwards.
(saw it before it was even pasted on this thread... I knew Baba Forgiveness will likely paste it )



Mr. Johnny (who I've followed since I was in my teens) really sounded shallow in his thoughts. I was kinda disappointed he was the writer. He mentioned a few truths here and there like players selection for instance but he also missed the whole picture on the reputation and motivational abilities of our local coaches (he forgot how Siasia won the U-23 Afcon for instance). On the whole his thoughts were just surprisingly shallow.