There's a popular saying goes thus, “it is only a mad man that keeps doing the same thing the same way over and over, and expect change.”
The above statement brings me to the charade of shamelessness exhibited by the Nigeria Football
Federation, following the announcement of a coach they were yet to agree terms with as the Super Eagles coach.
Recall that NFF announced on its official website, that the technical and development committee, chaired by Barrister Chris Green, has recommended Frenchman, Paul Le Guen, for the national team job, after he was interviewed via 'Skype' as claimed by the footballing body.
The nation's national team has been without a substantive coach since February this year, when Sunday Oliseh quit his position as the Super Eagles coach - an appointment which was shabby, shady and shoddy. Hope as published on this website, the professional crashed in a terrible manner.
One would have thought that the NFF had learnt its lessons, after practically begging inexperienced Oliseh, to replace late Stephen Keshi, who won the 2013 African Cup of Nations for Nigeria against all odds.
Nigerians are yet to recover from the shock of back-to-back AFCON failures, the 2015 edition in Equitorial Guinea, and now, Gabon for the 2017 edition, and failure to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will destroy the confidence Nigerians have in the federations, as well as, in the Super Eagles team.
If it took teams like England, Spain and Argentina a couple of weeks to name a replacement for their coaches, who quit their jobs after Copa America and European championships in June.
Most of these countries mentioned above weren't interested in any 'foreign technical adviser, but a home grown manager, who will give his best to the development of their football.
Whereas, the Super Eagles has been without a coach for the past five months, following Sunday Oliseh's sudden resignation, citing sabotage and other things as his reasons.
Nigeria has less than ten weeks to their first game in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Zambia, and the lack-of-foresight NFF board are yet to put their house in order, talk less of drawing up a plan for the national team ahead of the qualifiers.
As confused as they are, they announced Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the new Eagles "Technical Adviser" - someone who wasn't even interested in the job in the first place.
Le Guen, it was alleged never applied for the Nigerian job in the first place, as we hope the NFF can come forward to publish the applications submitted by the Frenchman should he dare to prove us wrong.
After all, Barrister Chris Green could afford to travel to Ivory Coast on tax payers money, just to nail late Stephen Keshi for applying for another job while been bound by one - the task he completed with grave passion.
Again, the Pinnick led NFF board claims the federation was broke, yet, they could host the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, FIFA general secretary and over twenty Football Association presidents in Africa, the same week that the U20 threatened to down tools for not paying them their dues.
Yoruba's say "Orisa bo Le Gbemi, fimile bo se bami," which means that if you cannot move me forward, it's better you leave me the way you met me.
The Nigerian football has only retrogressed since this NFF administration came into office, and, Nigerians are tired of a federation which has continually failed to put its house in order as they subject the citizens to sadness over the number one choiced sports in Nation.
We believe that if this NFF isn't hell bent on totally destroying the image of Nigerian football, which is already in a comatose stage, they should do what we proposed to them earlier - resign honorably, and, let someone with visions take over.
After Le Guen turned down the Eagles job, the NFF executives gave the technical committee board seven days to recommend a new set of technical advisers, it is more than ten days now and no one has said anything about this... we simply cannot continue like this.
So, we are advising the technical committee board, which is headed by Barrister Chris Green, to resign, because they all have done our football more bad than good, of which we know the word, 'resign' does not exist in their diary.
Barely two months to the World Cup qualifiers campaign, Nigeria is still searching for a coach... Let me rest here, but Amaju Pinnick and his cohorts must bow out now that the ovation can never get louder...
The above statement brings me to the charade of shamelessness exhibited by the Nigeria Football
Recall that NFF announced on its official website, that the technical and development committee, chaired by Barrister Chris Green, has recommended Frenchman, Paul Le Guen, for the national team job, after he was interviewed via 'Skype' as claimed by the footballing body.
The nation's national team has been without a substantive coach since February this year, when Sunday Oliseh quit his position as the Super Eagles coach - an appointment which was shabby, shady and shoddy. Hope as published on this website, the professional crashed in a terrible manner.
One would have thought that the NFF had learnt its lessons, after practically begging inexperienced Oliseh, to replace late Stephen Keshi, who won the 2013 African Cup of Nations for Nigeria against all odds.
Nigerians are yet to recover from the shock of back-to-back AFCON failures, the 2015 edition in Equitorial Guinea, and now, Gabon for the 2017 edition, and failure to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will destroy the confidence Nigerians have in the federations, as well as, in the Super Eagles team.
If it took teams like England, Spain and Argentina a couple of weeks to name a replacement for their coaches, who quit their jobs after Copa America and European championships in June.
Most of these countries mentioned above weren't interested in any 'foreign technical adviser, but a home grown manager, who will give his best to the development of their football.
Whereas, the Super Eagles has been without a coach for the past five months, following Sunday Oliseh's sudden resignation, citing sabotage and other things as his reasons.
Nigeria has less than ten weeks to their first game in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Zambia, and the lack-of-foresight NFF board are yet to put their house in order, talk less of drawing up a plan for the national team ahead of the qualifiers.
As confused as they are, they announced Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the new Eagles "Technical Adviser" - someone who wasn't even interested in the job in the first place.
Le Guen, it was alleged never applied for the Nigerian job in the first place, as we hope the NFF can come forward to publish the applications submitted by the Frenchman should he dare to prove us wrong.
After all, Barrister Chris Green could afford to travel to Ivory Coast on tax payers money, just to nail late Stephen Keshi for applying for another job while been bound by one - the task he completed with grave passion.
Again, the Pinnick led NFF board claims the federation was broke, yet, they could host the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, FIFA general secretary and over twenty Football Association presidents in Africa, the same week that the U20 threatened to down tools for not paying them their dues.
Yoruba's say "Orisa bo Le Gbemi, fimile bo se bami," which means that if you cannot move me forward, it's better you leave me the way you met me.
The Nigerian football has only retrogressed since this NFF administration came into office, and, Nigerians are tired of a federation which has continually failed to put its house in order as they subject the citizens to sadness over the number one choiced sports in Nation.
We believe that if this NFF isn't hell bent on totally destroying the image of Nigerian football, which is already in a comatose stage, they should do what we proposed to them earlier - resign honorably, and, let someone with visions take over.
After Le Guen turned down the Eagles job, the NFF executives gave the technical committee board seven days to recommend a new set of technical advisers, it is more than ten days now and no one has said anything about this... we simply cannot continue like this.
So, we are advising the technical committee board, which is headed by Barrister Chris Green, to resign, because they all have done our football more bad than good, of which we know the word, 'resign' does not exist in their diary.
Barely two months to the World Cup qualifiers campaign, Nigeria is still searching for a coach... Let me rest here, but Amaju Pinnick and his cohorts must bow out now that the ovation can never get louder...
Pinnick, Panic, Picnic; Sorry State Of Nigerian Football
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