[FILES] Super Eagles. Photo/FACEBOOK/ngsupereaglesThe campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less.
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