Triniti:
Nigerians deserves whatever they get in terms of leadership. Imagine some folks here defending the appointment of Yobo, just because man played 100 matches for Nigeria, he should now mount leadership of the nations apex team with no credible qualification. This is how we support mediocrity then cry foul when illiterates gets appointed into other spheres of our national life. Pinnick is just giving out jobs based on paddy paddy levels. No single credibility, what is Yobo bringing to the table when we already have a tactical deficient Rohr In charge? it all amounts to square peg in a round hole

Lol

You Dey mind them ?

That’s why I take most of them as comedians

BascoVanVeli:
Lie lie people I hail Una

Zinedine Zidane granted UEFA Coaching License

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The Castilla manager meets final qualifications.

By bozz@therealbozz May 8, 2015, 9:39pm CEST

Denis Doyle/Getty Images


Real Madrid Castilla manager, and former senior side star player, Zinedine Zidane has been granted his UEFA Pro License today and is now able to manage a football club at the highest level in Europe.

According to the report:


Zidane has been working as coach of Real Madrid's Castilla ‘B' team but was officially listed as an assistant because he had yet to complete the mandatory qualification required by the Spanish Football Association. But now the 42-year-old, who won 108 caps for France, is free to pursue his career after revealing he successfully passed the course on Friday.


If you recall, Zidane was in hot water last fall as he did not have the proper coaching badges but a suspension was lifted after he was cleared to manage by the Administrative Tribunal of Spanish sport (TAD). Seen as one of the frontrunners to replace current senior manager Carlo Ancelotti should he lose his position this summer, Zidane has also been linked to replace Marcelo Bielsa at Marseille should they part with him.

Zidane's Castilla side sits in seventh place in the Segunda B Group 2 with two matches left to play.

https://www.managingmadrid.com/2015/5/8/8574757/zidane-granted-uefa-coaching-license

And your point is? Zizou without a license could not even be seen as head coach OF CASTILLA B yet you're saying someone who hasn't even coached or set up an U16 team should be named assistant because he's good at punditry??
Has Yobo coached a team equivalent to CASTILLA B?

tbaba1234:


That is a given. Getting a law degree does not guarantee a good lawyer but you will not use a secretary as your lawyer.

in this context, Yobo is not a lawyer

An assistant coach, at best, would be more of a paralegal or even an intern. Nobody is looking to him, to make critical decisions. He is just carrying bags, standing by, taking notes

He has enough experience on the pitch to do that.

BTW, isn't this part of the recruitment NFF outsourced?

Odegbami: The Next Coach of the Super Eagles!

Nnamdi Ezekute Nnamdi Ezekute
1 month ago

I am stirring the hornets nest again.

The present times actually demand such ‘madness’.

I can almost hear many Nigerians, particularly those that cannot shake off the idea of a White coach being superior to anything a Black coach can offer, scream loudly that Segun has started again o!

Yes, I have started again, but permit me to remind everyone the source of my authority to stir things up.


In 1994, shortly after the USA World Cup, I initiated a campaign in my newspaper column to stop the hiring of foreign coaches for Nigeria’s national teams, including the Super Eagles. I believed that with the 1994 World Cup experience, Nigeria had finally laid down a firm foundation upon which a new generation of Nigerian coaches can be built.

I stated at the time that, starting with the Keshi-generation of ex-internationals turning coaches, Nigeria should have no further business hiring unknown foreigners to handle the Super Eagles again.

One of those that saw what I saw, and shared my vision was Onochie Anibeze, the. sports editor of the Vanguard newspapers.

Between us, and without consulting each other, but thinking purely from our mutual appreciation of the breakthrough achieved by the large entry of Nigerian players into the professional ranks of European football at the time (facilitated by Westerhof), and with many of them going all the way to experience playing in the World Cup, Nigeria had a pool of players with the capacity to become very successful national team coaches.

We even listed a few that we felt had the best qualifications. We were absolutely spot on.


From that list Stephen Keshi was identified as Clemens Westerhof’s natural successor even by the Dutch coach himself. ‘The Big Boss’ was a born leader. He carried this on to coaching after understudying Westerhof, getting licensed and climbing his way to become the most successful (Nigerian) coach ever.

Westerhof knew that when the chips are down a European will never love another man’s country enough to lay down his life. Meanwhile, such commitment is what is needed at the theatre of the most difficult competitions in football.

Onochie and I also identified in Samson Siasia, despite his Warri Boy attitude as a player, as having the streetwiseness and spirit, that can handle Nigerian players.

We were right. He secured the necessary qualifications and became the most celebrated coach by the international community in Nigeria’s history.

All of that was great until that generation became infected, as most of us are in the country in all spheres, by the compromiser ‘virus’ that turns good people to bad because, as John Mastoroudes derogatorily used to put it, ‘every Nigerian has a price’.

There were a few others too that I thought ought to go into coaching in order to build up the stock of qualified and experienced Nigerian players ready to step in and to take charge of Nigerian football at all levels – Daniel Amokachi, Ike Shorunmu, Emeka Ezeugo, Emmanuel Amuneke, Finidi George, Sunday Oliseh and so on.

Unfortunately, as they all did to achieve such a major paradigm shift was not going to be easy. To replace White coaches required the patience of a vulture that the fanatical Nigerian football fan did not have. So, as we speak, almost that entire generation of coaches are stuck in limbo, not fully embraced at home, and completely discriminated against overseas.

Administrators did not appreciate the consequences of halting the progression of developing Nigerian coaches by sticking with them through thick and thin, instead, they chose the easier route, and returned to our ‘vomit’ – the era of foreign coaches once again, back to slavery.

Europe will surely never take Nigerian coaches into the big clubs or national teams, even in a million years. But the worst aspect is the failure of Nigerian clubs and administrators to understand that initial ‘failures’ of their own coaches as useful lessons and tools along the journey to eventual success.

Indigenous coaches have remained in a vortex, going round and round in circles, not achieving anything.

Had Nigeria followed the trajectory of developing local coaches from our international pool of players after Stephen Keshi’s era, by now, no one will be engaged in the present debate about which coach should handle the Super Eagles for the 2022 World Cup, our next critical project. The cost of hiring one foreign coach can be spread across a whole planet of Nigerian coaches who could build a solid football environment and economy in the country.

So, it does not make sense to me, sentiments apart, to continue to tow the old, tested and failed route. If we must have a foreign coach it must be from amongst the best there is.

If not, if the choice is to be a Nigerian, as some of us advocate, we must not expect a quick fix or a sprint situation. It must be a mini-marathon race, on a long, lonely but guided route.

Nigerians must make up their minds to sink or swim with Nigerian ex-international players-turned-coaches, whilst giving them every best training and opportunity in the world to get the experience and knowledge to take Nigerian football to the zenith! If we do not do that, we shall remain forever in the state of thinking we are never good enough!

So, on that premise, yes, Segun has come again o!

Nigeria now has a second chance and a second generation of retired players with the football experience, knowledge and correct psychology (because they are Nigerians and are familiar with our players’ habits and idiosyncrasies) to be able to handle the national teams of Nigeria.

That’s why, without closing the chapter on the Keshi-generation, Nigeria must start again to look at the second generation. They are even slightly more equipped than the Keshi-generation with their deeper grounding in European football.

That’s why also, If I were to be in charge of Nigerian football, I will spend the next two years preparing a new leader out of the next generation of Nigerian coaches that will effectively take over all the national teams of Nigeria.

We tried it with Samson Siasia and Stephen Keshi and Austin Eguavoen Ike Shorunmu, Daniel Amokachi, and so on, and it worked up to a point and for a while, until the Nigerian factor reared its ugly head and Nigerians lost their patience.

This time, we won’t let it happen. Through a deliberate process of training and exposure to the best practices and personnel in the world, we would create new Guardiolas, Zidanes, Klopps, Enriques, all relatively young, retired ex-footballers that joined coaching ranks without having to waste years in the ‘classrooms’ but molded on the fields, to become the greatest coaches in the world today.


I have a person in mind. It is an informed position.

The excitement for me is that I do not even know if the great Nigerian football hero is interested in coaching, or if he has acquired a coaching license, or if he would even give up his present life for one of uncertainty and criticism that coaching attracts.

He will be making a great sacrifice if he takes up the offer. I will be prepared to sink or swim with him. He is very humble, a great leader of the national team players during his time, the player with the most caps for Nigeria in history, a mature, cool, well-read, very articulate and experienced ex-international football player, captain, very knowledgeable and probably the best football analyst I have seen of all Nigerian footballers.

Add to all the above, proper understudy of great coaches, the best professional training available anywhere, and a guarantee that the country will sink or swim with him, and I shall present to you, Joseph Yobo, the next coach of the Super Eagles in two years’ time!





Odegbami saw it coming.


Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.completesports.com/odegbami-the-next-coach-of-the-super-eagles/amp/

quickberry:
Odegbami: The Next Coach of the Super Eagles!


He will be making a great sacrifice if he takes up the offer. I will be prepared to sink or swim with him. He is very humble, a great leader of the national team players during his time, the player with the most caps for Nigeria in history, a mature, cool, well-read, very articulate and experienced ex-international football player, captain, very knowledgeable and probably the best football analyst I have seen of all Nigerian footballers.

Add to all the above, proper understudy of great coaches, the best professional training available anywhere, and a guarantee that the country will sink or swim with him, and I shall present to you, Joseph Yobo, the next coach of the Super Eagles in two years’ time!





Odegbami saw it coming.


Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.completesports.com/odegbami-the-next-coach-of-the-super-eagles/amp/

Soothsaying lots!
If Yobo is the standard for punditry in Nigeria we can as well just shift to Tennis on this thread

BascoVanVeli:



Of course he has no experience but I have proven that experience talk as BS. Even after sleeping on it I still say Joseph Yobo will be a super hit with the super eagles. This just made Rohr's job 10 times easier. Most of our players look up to Yobo, ffs he has the most caps in history. When he speaks they will listen because he can relate to all of them. If I am Iwobi I am running there to ask him questions about Everton and if I am Ajayi I want to know what to expect in the EPL from a guy who played almost a decade there. This hire doesn't only replace Imama it replaces Mikel because they now have a big brother them.

On the pitch he will improve our defenders immensely. Joseph Yobo doesn't need coaching school to tell you that you are in a wrong position as a defender or give you tricks of the trade. I personally believe he has a coaching certificate, not because I am believing that the NFF wouldn't hire someone without qualification but because I don't think Yobo is the type of person that would accept something like that without following due process. He didn't take short cuts as a player so is it now he will start

i don't think anyone is arguing this. The argument is not whether or not he will be a blast, but that, on merit he didn't deserve the job.

ON MERIT

BascoVanVeli:



Of course he has no experience but I have proven that experience talk as BS. Even after sleeping on it I still say Joseph Yobo will be a super hit with the super eagles. This just made Rohr's job 10 times easier. Most of our players look up to Yobo, ffs he has the most caps in history. When he speaks they will listen because he can relate to all of them. If I am Iwobi I am running there to ask him questions about Everton and if I am Ajayi I want to know what to expect in the EPL from a guy who played almost a decade there. This hire doesn't only replace Imama it replaces Mikel because they now have a big brother them.

On the pitch he will improve our defenders immensely. Joseph Yobo doesn't need coaching school to tell you that you are in a wrong position as a defender or give you tricks of the trade. I personally believe he has a coaching certificate, not because I am believing that the NFF wouldn't hire someone without qualification but because I don't think Yobo is the type of person that would accept something like that without following due process. He didn't take short cuts as a player so is it now he will start

He has no coaching badge. Fact. Not even the CAF stuff.

Joebie:
They are defending their position based on a lack of information as regards his coaching experience. you, what are you defending? Yobo's coaching experience will not be a secret if he has one.

Gbam

Humility017:


so amongst all the other coaches both in NPFL Yobo seems most qualified

well I sure know he Is only better than Imama and Aigbogun...That's the only coaches I believe he is better than.

will even pick Sir. Komekn to coach the super eagles over this two failed coaches

Is this a joke?

Danielnino00:


Aigbohun has a coaching badge.
How far did he take us ?

His coaching is never the issue but his corrupt practices of players selection. Gbam

We aleady have a super manager in Rohr. We need someone who will bring something new and lacking to the technical bench.

Sentiments is written all over your post.

You are looking for Mikel who is not a player. Well we have come to this because of the young team mantra.

BascoVanVeli:



Of course he has no experience but I have proven that experience talk as BS. Even after sleeping on it I still say Joseph Yobo will be a super hit with the super eagles. This just made Rohr's job 10 times easier. Most of our players look up to Yobo, ffs he has the most caps in history. When he speaks they will listen because he can relate to all of them. If I am Iwobi I am running there to ask him questions about Everton and if I am Ajayi I want to know what to expect in the EPL from a guy who played almost a decade there. This hire doesn't only replace Imama it replaces Mikel because they now have a big brother them.

On the pitch he will improve our defenders immensely. Joseph Yobo doesn't need coaching school to tell you that you are in a wrong position as a defender or give you tricks of the trade. I personally believe he has a coaching certificate, not because I am believing that the NFF wouldn't hire someone without qualification but because I don't think Yobo is the type of person that would accept something like that without following due process. He didn't take short cuts as a player so is it now he will start

Humility017:


so amongst all the other coaches both in NPFL Yobo seems most qualified

well I sure know he Is only better than Imama and Aigbogun...That's the only coaches I believe he is better than.

will even pick Sir. Komekn to coach the super eagles over this two failed coaches

Lol, werey

” I don’t know why Imama has been removed. I worked very well with him. He did a very good job with me. I regret his departure. But since the NFF have the right to take this decision, there is nothing that I can do about it.

” I have the responsibility to develop coaches from Nigeria as agreed with the NFF. I am more than happy to do that. Yobo is welcome to the team of course. I have heard that he has no coaching diplomas, so I will talk to him about this if what I have heard is correct, I will tell Yobo that he needs to do the training required to grow as a coach”,

-Rohr


Source: Owngoalnigeria

Rohr confirms what i said earlier about Yobo, He has no coaching certificate.

He is using the super eagles for apprenticeship.

safarigirl:
in this context, Yobo is not a lawyer

An assistant coach, at best, would be more of a paralegal or even an intern. Nobody is looking to him, to make critical decisions. He is just carrying bags, standing by, taking notes

He has enough experience on the pitch to do that.

BTW, isn't this part of the recruitment NFF outsourced?

Not correct, an assistant coach for a national team is more than just moving cones around the training pitch.

Imagine there is a big case. You have the chief lawyer who presents the case but you also have a bunch of other lawyers who work on the case and provide insights, research and suggestions on how to approach the case. That is the job of Yobo.

Yobo does not have the qualifications or experience that will help Rohr produce better results.

For a smaller case, a paralegal might do.

edi287:

And your point is? Zizou without a license could not even be seen as head coach OF CASTILLA B yet you're saying someone who hasn't even coached or set up an U16 team should be named assistant because he's good at punditry??
Has Yobo coached a team equivalent to CASTILLA B?

But he was assistant to Ancelotti in 2013 when they won the champions league na

safarigirl:
in this context, Yobo is not a lawyer

An assistant coach, at best, would be more of a paralegal or even an intern. Nobody is looking to him, to make critical decisions. He is just carrying bags, standing by, taking notes

He has enough experience on the pitch to do that.

BTW, isn't this part of the recruitment NFF outsourced?

Thank you.. I couldn't have said this better.

tbaba1234:
” I don’t know why Imama has been removed. I worked very well with him. He did a very good job with me. I regret his departure. But since the NFF have the right to take this decision, there is nothing that I can do about it.

” I have the responsibility to develop coaches from Nigeria as agreed with the NFF. I am more than happy to do that. Yobo is welcome to the team of course. I have heard that he has no coaching diplomas, so I will talk to him about this if what I have heard is correct, I will tell Yobo that he needs to do the training required to grow as a coach”,

-Rohr


Source: Owngoalnigeria

Rohr confirms what i said earlier about Yobo, He has no coaching certificate.

He is using the super eagles for apprenticeship.

How many times has this trash website been proving wrong? If this isn't true I will look at u as a peddler of fake news

BascoVanVeli:

How many times has this trash website been proving wrong? If this isn't true I will look at u as a peddler of fake news

I mentioned the switch of Lookman here, several months before it was released in the press.

I have been correct far more times than i have been wrong.

Yobo has no badges yet from all the information available to me.

Wow wow wow

Somebody is being paid here

Joebie:
We aleady have a super manager in Rohr. We need someone who will bring something new and lacking to the technical bench.

Sentiments is written all over your post.

You are looking for Mikel who is not a player. Well we have come to this because of the young team mantra.

Abeg read and understand jare. I said Imama and Mikel.

Please name 5 top class assistant coaches in Africa?

tbaba1234:


I mentioned the switch of Lookman here, several months before it was released in the press.

I have been correct far more times than i have been wrong.

Yobo has no badges yet from all the information available to me.

Not when u post Owngoal as a source. I am still waiting for FIFA to arrest Aigbodun for collecting bribes from his players. In fact can at least one of them call him out?

Yobo

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has aimed a dig at his new assistant, Joseph Yobo by revealing that the former Everton defender has no coaching qualifications.

Out of the blue, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed the appointment of the former Super Eagles captain on Wednesday to replace Imama Amapakabo, something Rohr admitted that he was aware of before it was made public.

Though Rohr played dumb over the axing of Amapakabo, the former Enugu Rangers coach is no longer in the good books of the Super Eagles faithful and the Nigerian Federation after the country's failure to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games and African Nations Championship.

"The NFF has the right to pick one assistant coach for my staff, so they are the ones to communicate the reasons for the appointment, not myself. I was informed by Amaju Pinnick, in a telephone call, before it was made public," Rohr told BBC journalist Osasu Obayiuwana.

"I don't know why Amapakabo has been removed. I worked very well with him. He did a very good job with me.

"I regret his departure. But since the NFF have the right to take this decision, there is nothing that I can do about it."

On Yobo's appointment, the Franco-German did not mince his words : "I have the responsibility to develop coaches from Nigeria as agreed with NFF. I am more than happy to do that.

"Joseph Yobo is welcome to the team, of course. I have heard that he has no coaching diplomas, so I will talk to him, about this.

"If what I have heard is correct, I will tell Yobo that he needs to do the training required, to grow as a coach.''

Yobo's first assignment as assistant coach of the Super Eagles will be against Sierra Leone in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier next month.

Y is basco fighting tooth and nail for yobo

Seems something is wrong somewhere

Solace Chukwu:

the source doesn't matter but the authenticity of his posts. its a bitter pill for you to swallow which is born out of mere sentiment and prejudice for you to accept the fact that yobo is not qualified for his appointment. he needs to atleast acquire a coaching diploma before been considered for such responsibility. say the truth and shame the devil which is the major reason 9ja is and will remain a shit hole.

BascoVanVeli:


Not when u post Owngoal as a source. I am still waiting for FIFA to arrest Aigbodun for collecting bribes from his players. In fact can at least one of them call him out?

forgiveness:

Is this a joke?

not a joke don't tell me you don't know both coaches to be calamities....

Alampasu , congratulations to him

BascoVanVeli:



Thank you.. I couldn't have said this better.

please answer Safarigurl last question.

if it was part of the recruitment it means PWC did a quack job...for a reputable agency of such to allow itself to be swingled in muddy waters by the NFF it shows their management needs cleansing

cc: safarigirl

Eizzy003:
Please I just saw this and I need clarification
A lady was the referee in the match between Akwa United and Dakadda FC
Was it due to a shortage of referees or its a popular norm in the NNPL

NPFL abi NNPL?
It's now a popular norm across world leagues especially with the best female referees

elyte89:
Y is basco fighting tooth and nail for yobo

Seems something is wrong somewhere

U will thank me I guarantee you this

Eizzy003:
Please I just saw this and I need clarification
A lady was the referee in the match between Akwa United and Dakadda FC
Was it due to a shortage of referees or its a popular norm in the NNPL

Yes and she was very good. No fear of making big decisions and was very fit.