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DALUNG CAUTIONS NFF AGAINST
INCESSANT SACKING OF COACHES
The sports minister addressed a press
conference in Abuja on Tuesday where he spoke
about the problems inherent in Nigerian football
and administration
The Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon
Dalung, has threatened to send packing the leadership
of the Nigeria Football Federation over the arbitrary
sacking of national team coaches for failing to win
championships.
At a press conference in his office in Abuja on Tuesday,
Dalung explained why he intervened to save the job of
Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh and settled the rift
over the choice of Kaduna for next month's Africa Cup
of Nations qualifier against Egypt.
Aside his quest to end nepotism in future elections into
various sports federations, he argued the authenticity of
Oliseh's rant in the YouTube Video, sadly opining that
the video was manipulated when the coach has publicly
apologised.
“The decision to fix matches is the direct responsibility
of the NFF not on the rectangular size of my table,"
Dalung told media.
"I can tell you that they have already had problems with
the Kaduna venue because the coach wants Port
Harcourt, while the federation was insisting on Kaduna.
“When I waded into it appealing to them, the coach told
me that the team is playing against many negative
things but when I asked the leadership of the federation,
they started the whole story about the crisis with the
coach.
"But I told them they were drifting too far into the issue
of sacking the coach since I was not interested in
listening to their stories.
“We should be able to build a country where we should
celebrate somebody that did well and sympathize with
him if he fails, encouraging him to do better. I told the
federation that overconfidence ruined the team.
“I told the federation that they don’t need to sack the
coach because he lost a game. They brought the issue
of YouTube complaining that the man embarrassed
Nigerians and must apologise.
"But I told them that they should not judge him based on
the YouTube because technology is now so
sophisticated that a man can be manipulated having an
affair with a woman when it is not true.
“Yes, I agree that I am a novice as they claimed but I
looked at that video and the way it was fluctuating
convinced that there was an act of manipulation. This is
my own judgment and I am free to hold this opinion.
“I told them if they have not heard from Oliseh directly
concerning those things on YouTube, they have to hold
on until I speak to Oliseh. When I spoke to him, he did
not indicate any bitterness throughout the 16 minutes
the discussion lasted. He rather pointed at issues we
have to address.
“I know very well the circumstances with which he
trained the players and even NFF know. I told the
federation that based on the discussion, we have to look
at how we can make progress out of it instead of
sacking Oliseh now and bringing another person we will
sack again when he loses against Egypt.
“After sacking another, we will then look at how we can
sack the NFF because if we sack the coaches, we will
face the people that employed them since they have
also failed too. It is going to be a sack game which is
what we should avoid. I told them it is natural to
discipline coaches but not to sack them.”
“If I will still be here when the elections into the board of
the federations will be done, I am assuring Nigerians
that nobody will pick his in-law or farmers’ association
chairman as a member of a board.
“Those who are contesting must show their
commitment, they must show how they will guide their
federation to success.
“Most of all the problems we are having in the
federations are linked to this. We have federations that
are existing and cannot do anything except the ministry
gives them money.
“The ministry even funds the ticket for a president [of a
federation] to come for meetings. At the end of the day,
you will discover that the federations have been reduced
to a battle ground; nothing but fighting over relevance
and resources.
“A man who was a leader of a farming group in the
village will now be appointed a board member in a
football federation.
"Immediately he arrives on the board, he considers
himself as having been appointed into a big political
office where he must be paid allowances and he must be
given money, he has nothing to contribute but much is
going to be spent on him.
“This is the cancer, this is the zika virus that is eating
into all the federations and is responsible for all these
problems. We must build a sport architecture that only
those who have interest can come on as board
members,” he concluded.
source: http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4093/nigerian-football/2016/02/17/20427692/dalung-cautions-nff-against-incessant-sacking-of-coaches

I think this minister's brain need to be checked

Nifemitech:
I think this minister's brain need to be checked

I think your own brain needs much more than checking... you need to be lobotomized!

Caution the coach is an okay punishment for a 1st offender IMHO. We all know oliseh is a rebel, still give him a chance in a united house, not in a house where indigenous coaches are set up to fail!

sunnyeinstein:
I think your own brain needs much more than checking... you need to be lobotomized!

Caution the coach is an okay punishment for a 1st offender IMHO. We all know oliseh is a rebel, still give him a chance in a united house, not in a house where indigenous coaches are set up to fail!

Lol do you know y I said that? imagine the minister saying YouTube is doctored. it's insane

sunnyeinstein:
I think your own brain needs much more than checking... you need to be lobotomized!

Caution the coach is an okay punishment for a 1st offender IMHO. We all know oliseh is a rebel, still give him a chance in a united house, not in a house where indigenous coaches are set up to fail!

Lol do you know y I said that? imagine the minister saying YouTube is doctored. it's insane

Nifemitech:
Lol do you know y I said that? imagine the minister saying YouTube is doctored. it's insane ;DLol do you know y I said that? imagine the minister saying YouTube is doctored. it's insane

Yes, its a lame excuse, but the moral of everything is that Oliseh knows he's got another opportunity under fair circumstances, he has to use it well and improve on his conduct. #shikenah