While other nations that will vie for honours at the World Cup holding in South Africa in June are already perfecting their strategies, Nigeria is still searching for the coach, who will tinker the Super Eagles to the tournament.

As at the last count, no fewer than 13 foreign coaches have been linked to the Super Eagles' job, as the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) continues the search for a replacement for Coach Shaibu Amodu.

Many expressed doubts about the ability of Amodu to guide the Super Eagles to a successful outing at the World Cup finals in South Africa after Nigeria's miraculous qualification for the mundial, but the football ruling body had passed a vote of confidence on the embattled coach, vowing to swim and sink with him prior to the Nations Cup in Angola.

However, despite meeting the benchmark of a semi-final berth at the last Nations Cup, the NFF has finally admitted a foreign tactician is inevitable if Nigeria must avoid a disgraceful outing in the Rainbow Nation in June.

In fact, the search for an expatriate coach began in Angola while the Nations Cup was still on. Nooj, Renard, Claude Le Roy, Milorad Rajevac, Hassan Shehata and Bonfrere Jo are some of the names that were reported to have held talks with officials of the Nigerian contingent in Angola.
Other names on the shop list of the NFF include Guus Hiddink, Peter Taylor, Rotimir Djukovic, Louis Van Gaal, Kaspaczak and Giovani Trapattoni among others.

One man, who raised the alarm early enough that Amodu did not have what it takes to guide the Nigerian team to the World Cup, is former Green Eagles' prolific left-winger, Felix Owolabi. The former Shooting Stars' player, whose bullet shots earned him the nickname, 'Owoblow', has described the NFF as a body of non-serious persons, who are merely deceiving Nigerians.
According to him, Nigerians should not take the NFF seriously, as none of the high-profile foreign coaches on the bloated list being brandished for the Eagles' job would end up as a replacement for Amodu.

"The NFF is a body of non-serious people. They are not telling Nigerians the truth. They are only deceiving themselves. I blame the sporting press for the undue publicity on the search for a foreign coach," Owoblow fumed in a chat with Saturday Sunsport.
"If NFF officials are serious, they should have got a quality foreign coach before the Nations Cup in Angola. The coach should have been on ground in Angola to assess the Super Eagles at the tournament.

“You can imagine that while other teams that will campaign at the World Cup in South Africa are busy perfecting their strategies, we are still looking for a coach barely three months to the championship. The coach, who will eventually come now, already has an excuse that he has little time to work," he reasoned.

"My heart bleeds for Nigerian football. The current NFF has dragged our football 10 years back. If they were serious, they should have known the best coach to employ instead of holding talks with all the coaches in this world.

“At the moment, we don't have a team for the World Cup. We don't have the players and there is no coach. Only a jobless coach will accept the Super Eagles' job.

"Hassan Shehata won't come because he is busy. He has a contract running with the Egyptian national team. It's a shame that we're talking about a short-term contract for the coach to come. That tells you that the NFF has no vision. They are not interested in developing the game in Nigeria.

The truth is that NFF has no particular coach in mind. They are deceiving Nigerians. Some of us will not stop in saying the truth," Owoblow stressed

Nonsence no unemployed world cup coach. They all want to reap where they did not reap.

@9ijaprince

They all want to reap where they did not reap

Where they did not sow?