Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has been the
spirit child of Nigerian football in the past two
years. Will he go, will he stay on the job?
These were the questions that dominated
many minds and therefore their online
searches in 2014 as Keshi led the most
searched Nigerian sports personality section
of the Google Year-In-Search.
According to the search engine giant, the
“Year-In-Search” lists are an annual look at
the billions of searches performed throughout
the year. Year-In-Search uses data from
multiple sources while filtering out spam and
repeat queries, to build more than 1,000
fascinating top-ten lists across pop culture,
sports, music, politics, news, and more.
JP Clark described the abiku child in his poem
of the same title as one who gets born into a
household, dies and is born another time; dies
again and is reborn, in a manner that
continues to torture the birth mother and
entire family.
ever has the coach of the national team
divided so much opinion as the Super Eagles
handler has done in the past two years.
Even his former boss Shaibu Amodu has asked
him to quit and stop beggaring for the job
following recent failings.
"Stephen Keshi alone will decide if he has a
reputation or he does not have a reputation. If
he has a reputation he will walk out of the job,
if he does not have, he should stay like a
beggar,” Amodu said.
Since he first resigned following his historic
capture of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations title
in South Africa, Keshi has become a thorny
issue, a captivating character, a rebellious
man manager.
At once he is the best thing to have happened
to Nigerian football since Clemens Westerhof,
at other times he becomes the most vilified
man on the continent.