Super Eagles job: Where Osaze Odemwingie got it wrong

Before Finidi George was named as the new head coach of the Super Eagles, former Nigeria international, Osaze Odemwingie raised some fundamental questions on why he preferred a foreign coach for the national team. Here, Desmond Ekwueme examines Osaze’s stance and puts up a strong argument on why ‘no player can be bigger than his coach’, domestic or foreign. A must read:

If persons like Odemwingie do not add their voices to this huge debate, who should? Needless saying that he is entitled to his opinion just like everyone else. I must commend Odemwingie for being bold to speak out his mind unlike others who are even more influential than him yet, choose to either keep mute and watch things go from bad to worse…or carry out vicious jobs underground just because they want to be members of the technical committee or ambassadors of the NFF.

Going by Odemwingie’s argument perhaps, Chukwu would have been gagged by the foreign based clouts of Ejide and Etafia to dump Enyeama on the bench while settling for any of the two foreign based goalkeepers.‘Go-slow’ at the bottleneck of selecting Super Eagles coach, by Segun Odegbami Given the array of Nigerian stars in Europe during the Tunisia 2004 AFCON yet Chukwu included Enyeama and Romanus Orjinta both of Enyimba in the squad. I guess this doesn’t suggest that both players belonged to Chukwu or he was their agent. Of course, we all saw that they were the best domestically in their respective positions then.

As said earlier it is the duty of the FA to rally round the coach, support him and arm him with required powers to instill discipline in the team. When the FA empowers players against their coach, they create an avenue for anarchy.This is a topical issue just as it is global. But there’s a difference between a coach identifying talents and recommending such to a club or another coach…and a coach who makes money from sales and transfers of players .

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