TheSuperNerd:
Inter Milan are Serie A Champions. What better way to confirm your status as League Winners than against your fiercest rivals, AC Milan.

San siro is Blue.

Congrats to Simone Inzaghi "Ball". His first league title as a manager.

Cc TheGoodJoe.

TheGoodJoe:


Come on. Yes we lost to France in the final but keep in mind we were in the same group with France and came out top of the group. We also beat France 2-1 in the group stage. So you can't hold that as a critique against him. He got us to the final playing some mad attacking football. A group that had USA, Japan and France. Even putting five past Australia in the knockout phase. Man, you can't tag coach Musa Abdulahi as mediocrity.

TheSuperNerd:
Inter Milan are Serie A Champions. What better way to confirm your status as League Winners than against your fiercest rivals, AC Milan.

San siro is Blue.

Congrats to Simone Inzaghi "Ball". His first league title as a manager.

Cc TheGoodJoe.

ThunderFireAgba:

I still remembered vividly.
The France coach undertook a case study of his previous matches and dealt with him accordingly. It's was an eyesore watching that finals as "he" couldn't do anything except to stand on the lines and accept his fate. This shows the tactical inept of local coaches.
It was this lack of tactical flare that caused Eguavoen his AFCON 2021 job.

TheSuperNerd:
Inter Milan are Serie A Champions. What better way to confirm your status as League Winners than against your fiercest rivals, AC Milan.

San siro is Blue.

Congrats to Simone Inzaghi "Ball". His first league title as a manager.

Cc TheGoodJoe.

Amedino99:
shey that our boy will collect medal too

AndSunGorilla:

Abegi, who no know say Amunike steal your kulikuli

Amedino99:
shey that our boy will collect medal too

TheSuperNerd:
I hope so. Akinsanmiro Ebenezer played a league game for them and made the bench 4-5 times.

humility33:

Even when it comes to local coach
I will pick Manu Garba to coach the super eagles over Amunike

He successfully managed under 17 and under 20 and even an NPFL side

The other one had a failed career in Zambian and Egyptian league and under 20

We are not telling ourselves truth in this country

The under 20 job too I don't know how Ladan Bosso merit that job

TheSuperNerd:
I hope so. Akinsanmiro Ebenezer played a league game for them and made the bench 4-5 times.

Joebie:
I clearly said if one is not Yoruba or Hausa-Fulani, you believe that person has an agenda. What you have just said here buttress my point.

This man thinks I have a tribal interest, so he is making a point that he has supported Igbo players, just because he knows I’m neither Yoruba or Hausa-Fulani.

No be for this thread I said my best national team is the 2013 Golden Eaglets. Who coached that team? No be this thread I praised Sadiq to high heavens a couple years ago or so? No be for this thread I said Nwakali does not deserve to be in SE a while back? So wetin make me become hypocrite when I never “hype” the likes of Etebo, Ejaria etc?

Kog45:
Happy 37th birthday John Obi Mikel da Trophies 🏆 man

robosky02:

Super Eagles coach: Reasons why NFF settled for ex-Barcelona man Emmanuel Amunike revealed

The former Nigeria international will reportedly be announced as the next head coach of the national team in the coming days

1980 Africa Cup of Nations winner Segun Odegbami has provided reasons why the Nigeria Football Federation has seemingly decided on appointing Emmanuel Amunike as the head coach of the Super Eagles, Soccernet.ng reports.

After screening dozens of applications from foreign and indigenous coaches over the past few weeks, the NFF has reportedly selected Amunike as the successor to Jose Peseiro.


Odegbami believes the NFF preferred another European coach to take over the national team to further the alleged financial racketeering in the exercise.


However, the Shooting Stars icon is convinced that the scarcity of funds in the coffers of the NFF forced the football body to settle for a Nigerian coach – a cheaper alternative.

“One thing is clear, except amongst some academic hard-line critics of Nigerian coaches, there appears to be little appetite for another half-baked foreign coach in Nigeria,” Odegbami wrote in his column in the Vanguard.

“The rackets attached to the hiring of foreign coaches may not find accommodation in a beleaguered government trying to reduce corruption in the system.

“The NFF does not have the funds, and the federal government will not accommodate the humongous fees of foreign coaches in the present dispensation.

“So, it will be a Nigerian as next manager of the Super Eagles.”

It has been seven weeks since Jose Peseiro exited his role as the Super Eagles head coach, leaving the position vacant.

If the NFF knew it only had the resources to hire a local coach, why has it taken such a long time to identify the right candidate among the many former internationals who applied for the job?


Odegbami concedes that while most Nigerians in the media space wanted Emmanuel Amunike, other powerful interests were pulling the strings behind the screens.

The two-time AFCON top goal scorer, however, warns Amunike to be ready to convince skeptics of his readiness for the job when his appointment becomes official.




“There is a lot of politicking ongoing,” Odegbami continued.

“Nigerian coaches appear not to tick all the boxes of requirements, not eliciting the confidence of several officials of the NFF with vested interest in particular aspirants.

“As things stand, however, a decision has to be taken now.

“Most fingers point in the direction of a former international player.

“He appears to be the preferred choice of most Nigerians in the media, particularly the social media.

“I will not be surprised if Emmanuel Amuneke gets the final nod to lead the team. It will become a huge task to dispel the serious reservations about his choice by those familiar with his antecedents when he was in one of the junior teams.”

Amunike left mixed antecedents when handling the Nigerian underaged teams.

The former Barcelona winger led the Golden Eaglets to loft the FIFA U-17 World Cup while nurturing talented kids like Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze.

However, he was in charge of the Flying Eagles when the team failed to qualify for the U20 AFCON in 2017.

Kog45:
Why putting the two young brightest coaches in under 17 as assistants,why not one in under 20.Well good luck to them as they kick start their national team coaching careers

Amedino99:
it was a week long competition and it was for our u15. If they went for the tournament they would have been back and it would have been good preparation for the WAFU B and besides Manu's work does not extend to the u15 as they have a separate coach named Patrick bassey. So it's either the NFF or the Spanish embassy are lying.

komekn:


It is baffling 37 years old and by 2016 he was finished for top level football ⚽ at age 29.

How is that possible.

When we have players playing at high level until 35 plus. How old is Ronaldo, Messi, Giroud, Lewondoski, Vardy.

🧐🧐

Kog45:
Kelechi Iheanacho should leave Leicester City

komekn:


Do your know what particular tournament in Spain ❓

I know a South African team was scheduled to play and was in the tournament programme but didn't turn up because visa were denied.

Marjoribanks:
The NFF has a functioning under 15/16 team since Amaju era. The team is made up of the best young talent across the country. They were recently denied visa by Spain for a UEFA under 16 tournament. Read the news to know whatz up, not everything be fraud. Rest!

Amedino99:
it was the uefa u16 tournament. You are mistaking it for another tournament. It's only countries that participate in this tourney not clubs.

komekn:


Any details because to deny a countries national youth team visas is a serious diplomatic incident.

TheGoodJoe:


I don't think so. There is an amount of competitive games to play to receive medals.

Odunayaw:
When I argued the fact that the expanded AFCON tournament played a part in qualification of smaller countries some of our guys here could only see it as a diss at Amunike.

Toylove:

we all accuse komekn and others of being bias, but the truth is that we are all being bias when it comes to our favorites…we go just Dey claim rubbish “objectiveness” up and down

Toylove:

we all accuse komekn and others of being bias, but the truth is that we are all bias when it comes to our favorites…we go just Dey claim rubbish “objectiveness” up and down

Odunayaw:
I agree but while most people's bias here is between 1 plot of land and an acre, that guy's own is a continent! Joe is the next to him

Kog45:
Westerhof lost to 10 man Italy team with a goal advantage….Rohr under 5 minutes to round things up failed to beat Argentina…Vogts came and find Afcon difficult to handle….Bora was whitewashed by Denmark,in fact looked clueless,Hoener came and lost to Cameroon twice in the same tournament,Seoul 88 he lost everything,Bonfrere Jo put us in tight corner until a local coach Shuaib Amodu rescued us and gave us WC ticket but na to dey use local coaches as bad examples….Oga Joe make we just dey watch go

komekn:


It is baffling 37 years old and by 2016 he was finished for top level football ⚽ at age 29.

How is that possible.

When we have players playing at high level until 35 plus. How old is Ronaldo, Messi, Giroud, Lewondoski, Vardy.

🧐🧐

chrisooblog:
Correction egbon on the bold. Hoener only lost the 1988 AFCON against Cameroon even that was controversial due to the Henry Nwosu goal that was wrongly called offside.