Super Eagles coach: Go for quality not nationality

Three of our players were named in the tournament’s first eleven. The Super Eagles Captain at the tournament, William Troost Ekong, was named the most valuable player of the tournament. Before AFCON 2023 the Super Eagles occupied the 43rd position in the world FIFA ranking. After the tournament the team jumped several steps to the 28th position in the world.

Nigeria should have found the money with which to keep the coach because we have a few qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup to be played soon. However, there is no need crying over spilt milk. The NFF has now advertised the position and a number of applicants, foreign and local, have shown interest.

Someone else who has thrown his hat into the pitch is Ndubuisi Egbo, a former Tirana Fc handler, who is the first Nigerian coach to win a league title in Europe. This was in Albania in the 2019/2020 season. An experienced Portuguese coach, Antonio Conceicio, who guided the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon to a third-place finish at the 2021 AFON is also an interested party. He has also coached national teams in Cyprus, Portugal and Saudi Arabia.

During the 2023 AFCON, the Ivorian football authorities dismissed its foreign coach and got an Ivorian to step in. It is the Ivorian indigenous coach that won AFCON 2023 for Ivory Coast. This is evidence of inferiority complex. The critics of these two sets of coaches believe that these are factors that ought to be taken into serious consideration during the hiring process. All of the allegations may not be true and all of them may not necessarily apply to all coaches in each of the two groups.

The Super Eagles is in a good place now as I have said. The team must be built to be bigger, stronger, more fluent than it is now. Only a coach with significant achievements can take the team to the sky. That depends on the choices that the NFF makes. It should look for money, go and break a bank and get the money to run football, the game that most Nigerians are crazy about if they themselves are also crazy about football.

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