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safarigirl:
We have all the talent we need, more talent than the likes of Netherlands, England, Algeria, CIV....we have a golden generation in our hands, boys who have it in them to break the records of Yekini, JJ Okocha, Kanu and Finidi George, but poor management and a corrupt administration will kill those talents every generation we get to.

Goke7:
Hello ma, the way you are bashing siasia is too harsh, what about the african Guardiola that ran away cos of Egypt, I think siasia should be commended for his bravery, was he disgraced? hell NO, can you blame siasia for the goals we conceded especially the one in Kaduna? That game was already won, siasia is just a victim of circimstance

The good joe has said it all, we don't have money now to employ any foreign coach abi dollar no scarce again?

The foundation of all this mess was not renewing keshi's contract after the world cup, amaju and his gang must go except we are doomed.

Slimzjoe:
Safarigirl I Agree with most of Your Point but Won't with the Coach Team Selection.

Managers knows Best and Also Like Success Remember Keshi won the Afcon with the Team he Picked himself. And even though we where Screaming for him to Drop some Players, he stuck to them and got the Job Done.

safarigirl:
no, managers can be wrong too..... sometimes, they know nothing.

Did Moyes know best when Man U was sinking? What of Mourinho with Chelsea? The manager is not God, he is prone to mistakes and wrong calls

You're Actually Agreeing with me here

Now Let's look at it like this, After Moyes and Jose Left there Respective Teams, did the Next Person Coming in Change the Team Fortune?? hmmm?

Managers Pick who Impressed them the Most or who they believe is Ready to Do Well For them and Then Leave the Rest To Fate.

blueto:
I dissenter.

Yes, I accede that our coaches are being deprived of a palatable renumeration system and other incentive factors that elicit motivation.

But what should be the foremost incentive that will motivate a national team coach to shun prejudicial administration and optimally exploit his resources to secure palatable results for the nation and his employers?

For me, I believe it a Love For One's Country.

A coach is not suppose to be suasible and pliable enough to allow the deterrents from NFF to negatively influence his own dispensation if he is a partisan of patriotism.

Slimzjoe:
You're Actually Agreeing with me here

Now Let's look at it like this, After Moyes and Jose Left there Respective Teams, did the Next Person Coming in Change the Team Fortune?? hmmm?

Managers Pick who Impressed them the Most or who they believe is Ready to Do Well For them and Then Leave the Rest To Fate.

TheGoodJoe:

After the troubles Iwobi and Carl Ikeme faced at Kaduna, we can not blame Coach Siasia for leaving out Balogun earlier. The climate was not good for them.

Iwobi and Simon Moses would have given Ighalo more freedom but Ighalo gets his pick based on sentiments alone. This guy has only one goal since January. He is on a drought. I do not think we was the one to lead the line. Reports came out from the camp that Ighalo was wasteful and Iheanacho was the most clinical striker.

Why Coach Siasia chose to drop Iheanacho, beats me.

And yes!!!! Under varying degrees of different factors like Temperature, pressure and Volume (even concentration levels)....... The same reagents can yield different results
experimentally.
So that "14th experiment" may still turn out different
after all.

https://www.nairaland.com/1952331/all-news-olympic-eagles-u-23/94#40480199

TheGoodJoe:

After the troubles Iwobi and Carl Ikeme faced at Kaduna, we can not blame Coach Siasia for leaving out Balogun earlier. The climate was not good for them.

Iwobi and Simon Moses would have given Ighalo more freedom but Ighalo gets his pick based on sentiments alone. This guy has only one goal since January. He is on a drought. I do not think we was the one to lead the line. Reports came out from the camp that Ighalo was wasteful and Iheanacho was the most clinical striker.

Why Coach Siasia chose to drop Iheanacho, beats me.

TheGoodJoe:

After the troubles Iwobi and Carl Ikeme faced at Kaduna, we can not blame Coach Siasia for leaving out Balogun earlier. The climate was not good for them.

Iwobi and Simon Moses would have given Ighalo more freedom but Ighalo gets his pick based on sentiments alone. This guy has only one goal since January. He is on a drought. I do not think we was the one to lead the line. Reports came out from the camp that Ighalo was wasteful and Iheanacho was the most clinical striker.

Why Coach Siasia chose to drop Iheanacho, beats me.

jayriginal:
No we dont. The sooner you wake up, the better.

TheSuperNerd:
Yes we do have the talents!!!!!! Even soccer analysts in the English media and top officials in the English FA agree to this.

One of the analysts even said, "It seems the future of world soccer rests with the Nigerians........" #he said much more.

So, the sooner you return to bed and wake up afresh, the better.

safarigirl:
I've read many times from different people that the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles suffer from a lack of 'quality' players. The team have been accused of having sub-standard players who never play their best in the Nigerian colours and I used to believe that.

I believed it so much, I advocated a total overhauling of the team- get in new guys, young blood with heart and mettle. People who are ready to lay it down for the green white green. That should work, right?

Fast forward today, and after watching our dismal outing in Egypt as well as prvious failures in the last U20 world Cup, I've come to the realistic conclusion that the problem with the team is the managers and administrators.

Yes, the National team coaches and their egos/sentiments have ruined us more times than I can remember. Was it Manu Garba in U20, dropping lethal Iheanacho, Simon Moses and Nwakali against Germany, for non-lethal guys? What of Keshi who kept on throwing in Yobo even when he was past his prime? Or Samson Siasia fielding the likes of Aminu Umar and directionless Musa against Egypt in a must-win game, while our best players in KD; Iheanacho, Iwobi and Simon Moses were on the bench? The same Siasia playing Ighalo- someone who can only function with a strike partner as a lone striker? What happened to Fernando Adi? A smart coach builds his team according to the strength(s) of his forward(s), you don't just throw a man into a line-up and hope he can pull a rabbit out his arse in 90 minutes

Some might say, don't blame the coach, but someone is responsible for Leicester topping the EPL with the SAME players they had when they were fighting relegation, and who is that? Did Egypt have better players than us as far as pedigree? Would the right coach have made a difference with the right team selection? By all means yes.

Those advocating for the foreign players, the Jordon Ibes, Delle Allis and Ross Barkley, what are the guarantees they still won't be overlooked by a local coach for some Festus Kingsley from NPFL or U23 when it matters? After all, Iwobi had to wait till 15 minutes to the end of the game to show his mettle despite his strong display in Kaduna. So, I can imagine your coaches would even bench CR7 if he could play for Nigeria. Why?

This is not to absolve the incompetent NFF of course, because they are majorly to blame for our instability. With their gross disregard and disrespect for local coaches and their constant failure to keep to contractual terms, NFF have continually chased away decent local coaches with disastrous results. Even those advocating to retain Siasia, do you think the same fate that met Oliseh and Keshi won't meet him? You think NFF will pay his salary? You think they won't override his decisions to slot in their favourites?

Unfortunately, until we rid the football body of those cancerous elements that have eaten deep into the system, we cannot expect any form of miracle on the pitch or from the same set of rotten coaches. The popular saying comes to play that even if you put make-up on a pig, a pig is still a pig.

As I type this, I have lost any form of hope of us qualifying for any tournament, even if we do, there are no long term solutions to our football woes, because even when it seems like we're making headway, something or someone always combusts. Even the foreign coaches will leave because of NFF and their shady ways.

We have all the talent we need, more talent than the likes of Netherlands, England, Algeria, CIV....we have a golden generation in our hands, boys who have it in them to break the records of Yekini, JJ Okocha, Kanu and Finidi George, but poor management and a corrupt administration will kill those talents every generation we get to.


Article Written By: Safarigirl

CC: Thegoodjoe, TheSupernerd, Icon4s, Daninya11, blueto, confun, bascovanveli, jarus

jayriginal:
I doubt you'd be able to recognize talent if it poured cold water on you.

MrBONE2:
Good Sisi! You re right.May Great One of KuVuKi Land bless you.

TheSuperNerd:
I understand you Sir. But it doesn't deny the facts on ground.

Besides, sometimes our misfortunes at tournaments or in competitive matches are down to coaches not utilizing properly the talents available to them.

Case study: Manu Garba @New Zealand 2015

Most recent case-study: Siasia vs Egypt yesterday. He benched better talents in Iwobi, Iheanacho and Moses Simon and went with Aminu Umar, Ahmed Musa....

jayriginal:
Everybody thinks they can do the job until they are on the hot seat. Ask Oliseh.

Players are benched or played for other reasons than talent. As a manager you have to make some tough decisions. When it turns out in your favor, you are a genius. When it doesnt, the fans call for your head. Ask Mourhinho.

xtervaganza:
This article made sense until you said we have more talents than Holland and Algeria




Are you trolling? When it comes to spinning out talents there's hardly a country more prolific than Holland at it




And Algeria? Do we have a Benatia? A Brahimi or Mahrez? To mention a few



The sad truth is; we ni longer have the talents in this country . Gone are those days when talents masked the nff's ineptitude