Former international Mutiu Adepoju has canvassed for Augustine Eguavoen to be named substantive head coach of the Super Eagles.
Eguavoen has been in temporary charge of the Super Eagles since September.
The former defender has guided the Super Eagles to 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification.
The three-time African champions won three games, drawn two and lost one in the qualifiers.
Read Also:Exclusive: Iroha Slams Super Eagles’ Poor Display Against Rwanda, Backs Eguavoen For Top Job
His future is still uncertain with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) still contemplating hiring a foreign coach for the team.
Adepoju has however backed his former international teammate for the top job.
“I would rate him very well. Number one, we’ve qualified for the AFCON, which is one of the objectives,” he told Brila FM.
“I would say he has done well and is still doing well.
“They should keep encouraging him. I believe he’s getting things done, I will rate him high, let just keep supporting him.”
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Mumu pple
NFF SHOULD EMPLOY A GOOD STANDARD FOREIGN COACH THAT KNOWS ABOUT AFRICAN FOOTBALL & PLAYERS THAT IS HIGHLY TECHNICAL & BE RESPECTED BY PLAYERS.
THE REASON WHY SOME EX-PLAYERS AND SOME PRESENT SUPER EAGLE PLAYERS ARE IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS COACH(especially Equaveon) IS BECAUSE THAT, IT WILL BE VERY EASY FOR THEM TO PENETRATE IN HIM, CONTROLLING HIM & DICTATING TO HIM WHEN IT COMES TO PLAYERS SELECTION, WHICH IT CANNOT BE POSSIBLE ON FOREIGN COACH. ALSO, IT WILL BE VERY EASY TO DO BUSINESS BY INTRODUCING PLAYERS TO INDIGENOUS COACH AFTER COLLECTING BRIBE FROM SUCH BE PLAYERS.
** NOTE: We should not be deceiving ourselves in this country because of the way things work for other countries (e.g. Democracy work well in America, S/Africa, Ghana but it doesn’t work well in Nigeria).
THE WAY THINGS WORK FOR COACH H. SHEHATA(EGYPT), COACH ALIOU CISSE(SENEGAL), COACH EMERSE FAE(IVORY COAST) BY WINNING AFCON FOR THEIR COUNTY (and also qualified for next AFCON easily) MAY NOT WORK IN NIGERIA DUE TO CORRUPTION, IMPROPER PLANNING, LACK OF STRUCTURES, BAD MANAGEMENT.
IN NIGERIA, WE ARE TOO RELIGIONISTIC, REGIONISTIC, TRIBALISTIC & SENTIMENTAL.
EVEN when Keshi won AFCON in 2013, he failed woefully to qualified for next AFCON due to bad management(Pinnick VS Giwa), sentiment, jealous, hatred towards some players (e.g. Yobo, I.K. uche, V.moses).
**** NFF SHOULD GO FOR THE BEST COACH.***
What matters most is to move our football forward & not celebrating FLUKE WINNING again. We struggle/manage to beat CIV by penalty in AFCON group stage. But E/guinea beat CIV 4-0 convincingly.
*** KESHI WON AFCON IN 2013, BUT WE CANNOT BOAST OF PLAYERS, THE TEAM FOR THE FUTURE (for instance: Sunday MBA, Uzoenyi, Oshaniwa, Agbim are nowhere to be found in future football). AND NIGERIA FAILED TO QUALIFIED FOR NEXT TWO CONSECUTIVE AFCON.
WHAT A SHAME!!!!
**** WESTERHOF WIN AFCON IN 1994, BUT NIGERIA CAN BOAST OF FUTURE FOOTBALL (for instance: Oliseh, Okocha, Amokachi, Amuneke shine for future football).
WHAT A BRIGHTER FUTURE!!!!!
### NFF SHOULD EMPLOY A GOOD DISCIPLINE, TACTICAL, HIGHLY RESPECTED COACH ###
We will not allow you people to bring Nigeria down.
Selfishness and ego are the major problems of you people.
If what to Eguavoen happened to Oyinbo’s coach, he would have resigned after the Rwanda match, but black people would rather stay there and destroy everything.
Mutiu Adepoju watched the live match and analyzed the match on Super Eagles with Ikpeba, but to my surprise, he still wants Eguavoen to continue.
These people do not want the best for 9ja.
Since NFF Ajewomasan can’t afford to hire a coach like Renard then they should go for Siasia.
Siasia is more than capable of this job. We don’t need the service of Eguavoen. He should quit his position. Enough of this shameful display from 1994 ex-footballers. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
You resemble an apob member. See, irrespective of the false narrative against our national assets, Eguaveon, an indigenous coach is taking SE to the World Cup.
So Eguavoen is your own “national asset” abi? Be careful what you commit yourself to because of peanuts that will never make you but will instead break you. Have you heard of the fate that awaits “false witnesses”?
Unu need check wunu selves before wunu wreck wunu selves so’ ongbo?
If Eguavoen is a “national asset” let him be one in your own household, don’t try to put a curse on Nigeria and Nigerians! Wereeey!
Maga, what’s the Super to you is you’re a real Nigerian? I know some wannabes who are made to shit at home. LMFAOO
*Super Eagles* to you it’s you’re a real Nigeria.
Ehn? wetin you dey yarn ol’ man? If you go say something ehn? at least make am make sense na lmao!
You just run come out vomit pure nonsense pmsl
I hope that you are proud of yourself with the nonsense you just vomitted?
In the meantime, my advice to you is that you revisit primary 1-6 to go and learn the basics of words and sentence formation lmaaoo. Mumu lmaaoo
Another apob sighted. lulé tribe ni, ééh, cry all you want Eguaveon is taking the Super Eagles of “NIGERIA” to the World cup.
Gbadamosi Atuko,
Ok then, bet your house (if you have one) or your life on it, if you are so sure then LMAAOO!
Wereey!
Whatever Adepoju smoked before making this comment is having a negative effect on him.
What do you expect Adepoju to say. Eguaevoen & Adepoju were team mate. You don’t expect him to say otherwise against his friend & ex-team mate.
For instance if a journalist asked you about your brother or mother, either good or bad you won’t say the negative.
As regards the coach, he was asked to Comment. for me the question should be directed to a neutral person.
osimeren – yuh spoked well, is the mumu journalist who ask hin yeye question dat need collect serious beating! msheew
He should encourage himself by developing tactically and technically through coaching courses than they should encourage him as claimed by Mutiu Adepoju.
At present SE players’ level are beyond Eguaveon coaching abilities,No sentiment about it,period
How? There was nothing in the game against Rwanda. It merely a practice match, so nothing.
so because of that is better for them to lost it ba? Is dat how yuh teach yur shiidren in yuore house?? shameful mumu man! msheeew. pls be carful o!, no dey tink se becuase we de siddon look se yuh fit just they mess ground everywere. robbish!
Where were you when he replaced amumuniké who was supposed to be there. Fooool, hiding behind his keypad to be insulting. Aren’t you stupid? Or don’t you know an indigenous coach, Egu, is better than Rohr and his like? Gettttaaat, sadeast
@yaboah are you not ashamed of urself? I’m yet to see anybody replied ur senseless comment here yet you keep seeking relevant, i blame CSN who allowed all dick and Harry access to this forum.
Femi abi watin?
If I shud be ashamed of mysel base on tings I has been commenting, then yuh shuld commit suicide an kii yersel base on what yuh has been commenting
if yuh doubt am, den go back an read al de tings yuh have say up til today and yuh wii see that is yuh who is a really mumu man! mscheeew! kwasia!
This @Kenneth guy seems to be living in an alternate reality where mediocrity is a badge of honor, and Nigerian coaches can do no wrong, even when their failures are written in bold for all to see. Calling the Rwanda game “just a practice match” is laughable. Was it labeled a friendly by CAF? No. That match had implications beyond the 90 minutes, especially with the psychological advantage Rwanda now carries into the World Cup qualifiers. Ignoring such details is not just naive—it’s reckless.
If it was just a “practice match,” why was Eguaveon mumbling and pacing like a man who forgot his script the moment it looked like we could lose? Does that look like someone treating it as a casual kickabout? Kenneth, be serious for once.
Have you even considered what happens if the Libya appeal at CAS overturns those three points CAF handed us? The group dynamics could shift drastically, and here you are, treating games like Rwanda as trivial. That’s not patriotism; that’s blind loyalty to failure.
Your endless crusade for local coaches, no matter how disastrous their tenure, is baffling. Supporting someone like Finidi, whose stint with the Super Eagles was an absolute train wreck, is the kind of misplaced patriotism that keeps Nigerian football stagnant. Patriotism doesn’t mean settling for mediocrity in the name of “local content.” If we’re serious about competing on the global stage, excellence should come first—local or foreign.
Let’s not even start on the backdoor dealings that plague player invitations. You and your local-coach fan club conveniently ignore the whispers of cash exchanging hands and connections determining call-ups. This is why we keep seeing strange, questionable names in the Super Eagles lineup. Until we break this cycle of recycling failures, Nigeria will continue to punch below its weight. Supporting mediocrity is not patriotism; it’s sabotage.
It’s you who is singing, let him know when you’re done. So far, Coach Egu is performing quite ok and exactly what those who played the game are saying. First it was Iroha, Mutiu. Go and read what Iroha said.
@Glory you are quite something if you took time to actually look at Eguavoen’s performances you will see he has done Nada, CAF handed Nigeria 3 points in hindsight that is the only reason Eguavoen Qualified, if not for those 3 points dashed to us by CAF Nigeria would be in a different story now, Libya may have qualified. Looking at how they bounced back against the same Rwanda that beat us, do you think Nigeria would have won that game against Libya judging by Nigeria’s Poor Away form under Eguavoen?.. Okay now taking that into account we still have Away games to Rwanda and South Africa in WC qualifiers, Looking at South Africa do you think Nigeria can beat that team away under Eguavoen??.. Okay now the last games of WC qualifiers is September 2025 AFCON or whatever kicks of in November 2025 if we fail to Qualify for WC (which will be the case if we stick with Eguavoen) and our bitter Rivals South Africa qualify what sort of Demoralised squad will we be sending to AFCON, Mumu NFF will surely only see need to cut ties with Eguavoen then chosing a low class Foreign coach who Eguavoenis better Mumu ex Internationals will call for Osimhen and dem to be cut from Super Eagles and local players take their players because after all that is their aim to destroy this team forgetting that they Mischievously put us in that place by then along with fans like you, who will also be calling for Osimhen and Lookman’s head by then Sending our Football to then brink of no return by then. That is your Aim abi!!!!!.. that is what will happen watch it play out ODE!!!!!
Inshort you people are bastard enemies of Progress Comfam Saboteurs… AHoles all of you ma NFF o, All of Wuna!!
@Glory you are quite something if you took time to actually look at Eguavoen’s performances you will see he has done Nada, CAF handed Nigeria 3 points in hindsight that is the only reason Eguavoen Qualified, if not for those 3 points dashed to us by CAF Nigeria would be in a different story now, Libya may have qualified. Looking at how they bounced back against the same Rwanda that beat us, do you think Nigeria would have won that game against Libya judging by Nigeria’s Poor Away form under Eguavoen?.. Okay now taking that into account we still have Away games to Rwanda and South Africa in WC qualifiers, Looking at South Africa do you think Nigeria can beat that team away under Eguavoen??.. Okay now the last games of WC qualifiers is September 2025 AFCON or whatever kicks of in November 2025 if we fail to Qualify for WC (which will be the case if we stick with Eguavoen) and our bitter Rivals South Africa qualify what sort of Demoralised squad will we be sending to AFCON, Mumu NFF will surely only see need to cut ties with Eguavoen then chosing a low class Foreign coach who Eguavoenis better Mumu ex Internationals will call for Osimhen and dem to be cut from Super Eagles and local players take their players because after all that is their aim to destroy this team forgetting that they Mischievously put us in that place by then along with fans like you, who will also be calling for Osimhen and Lookman’s head by then, overlooking the main culprits NFF and Eguavoen Sending our Football to then brink of no return by then. That is your Aim abi!!!!!.. that is what will happen watch it play out ODE!!!!!
Inshort you people are bastard enemies of Progress Comfam Saboteurs… AHoles all of you ma NFF o, All of Wuna!!
Papafem – PREACH my GUY!!
You be correct man!
May you be walking and never be stumbling ore!
Ignore that foolish animal Glory, he is a typical example of the opposite of his moniker “Glory”, he should be called “Shame” instead.
awon oloriburuku have started again . God will punish anyone that says Equation is the right man to lead Super Eagles . just because you benefit from the corrupt system at the detriment of millions of fans in Nigeria that are crying and sad over the poor performance of the eagles in recent time . once again God will punish you Mutiu Adepoju for having that audacity to voice out that cursed name Austin Equiavon.
You have spoken well. God bless you Mutiu the head master
patrick aka segu west aka olaosebikan aka arara krumble aka Stan da mumu man, yuh stii dey play?? lmaaoo!
yuh are a really mumu but You have spoken unwell. csn dress the jackdoor reverse jester pmsl – one day yuh go get job so that pipo on csn can rest kai! smh!
Mutiu Adepoju or what ever Your Name is God Punish all you backward thinking Internationals, Eguavoen Failed to take us to WC 2022, I guess the vision is Clear from these Ex Internationals, they want nothing good for Super Eagles, the Indigenous can do what the white man Can thinking in Nigeria will kill Nigera that Nigerian Arrogance is killing Nigeria, that Nigerian Arrogance that forced us to completely drive White people out of Nigeria with out even thinking of working with then and looking at the state of the Country Today, it is the Nigerian way of things they know it best sit there encourage their paddy paddy because because they are ex footballers, some mumu fans will support them but the simple truth is Nigeria is cursed with the Nigerian way of doing things.. Fans supporting as they say their own whether their own is clueless or is failing or not, as they say fail with our own even to the detriment of our global standing, Fu*K Nigeria Fu*k super Eagles and Most of all Fu*k this Ex Internationals all of them can go to hell and burn this team to the ground for all I care, South Africa please thrash these pieces of shit!!!!..
And Fu*k all you dumbass fans who support this Shit!!!
Mutiu Adepoja – hear me well, this your comment (if in fact you did say such a wicked thing) has now completely eroded any last vestibules of respect you had and respectability attached to your name which you built up during your illustrious playing career.
These Nigerians are a just a different breed! What a clown this man is!
Sentiments and ideals such as meritocracy, advancement, improvement, pride in one’s work, excellence, efficiency and legacy are alien to these people!
Absolutely unbelievable!!!
So is this your contribution to the discussion? Hmmmmm! You need to read yourself again, it’s indeed terrible.
Well, mutiu is very correct judging from the stats he reeled out. Out of 6matches Eguaveon prepared the Nigerian side for, even as he was given just 3weeks, he won 3; drew 2 and lost the one he prosecuted with his 2nd eleven boys, the match was even an inconsequential one which we all know to be the fact. No coach has achieved such in recent times. So when some of you come here to start making noise, I wonder what stats you’re relying for your misunderstanding.
lol Terrible in what sense?
You are a peanut puppet and I don’t know which one exactly you are but I know that you are definitely one of the dullards on here who are also cowards – you have re-invented yourself (again), this time as chief satos ka gwani? Bcause you are afraid to take on a person with real facts and opinions about what is going on (along with many many others mind) and are just a beggar, receiving whatever peanuts your “masters” are feeding you from their table to run and propagate a false narrative – It’s people like you who I am most sorry for because, yes, your puppet masters will not escape punishment both here and now and also in the hereafter, but it is false witness, spineless cowards like yourself who will receive the lion share of punishment – ask yourself this, is there a God? If there is, then either repent and start trying to make reparations any way you can to prove your repentance to be real, or you sir, whoever you are (and I can find out, but just cannot be bothered because you and your kind are completely irrelevant to a person like me in the grand scheme of things), are in REAL trouble! lool
You are a prime example of those described as penny wise and pound foolish, a real glutton for punishment hahaha..
Oya take that and stick it in your savings account! KMT
Don’t let us be decieving ourselves on Equaveon.
Equaveon has been given enough chances as a national team coaches in different capacity.
1. WHAT IS HIS ACHIEVEMENT?
2. WHAT IS QUALITY OF PLAY HAS HE OFFERED TO THE TEAM?
3. SINCE WHEN EQUAVEON HAS BEEN COACHING, CAN ANYONE MENTION WHICH NEW KEY PLAYERS HAS HE SOURCED/SCOUT/BROUGHT TO ANY NIGERIA TEAM & STILL BE RELEVANT FOR FUTURE FOOTBALL??????
The answer is CAPITAL NO !!!!!!!!
(Because when Equaveon was U-17 Coach, the set of players like Mikel, promise, Obasi, Ezekiel-Bala was all detected by coach GANIYU-SALAMI NOT Equaveon)
FOR INSTANCE:
*** WHEN SIASIA WAS A COACH OF U-20, U-23,& SUPER EAGLE, HE SOURCED FOR SO MANY PLAYERS FOR NIGERIA TEAM LIKE: AKPEI, TAYE-TAIWO, ADEFEMI, NSOFOR, ADELEYE, KAITA, CHIBUZOR-OKONKWO, AJILORE, SHEHU-ABUBAKAR, ETEBO, JOEL-OBI, EMENIKE, C.MOSES. AND MOST OF THIS PLAYERS MENTIONED ABOVE, ARE ALL RELEVANT FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS FUTURE FOOTBALL.
(BUT THE LIKE OF MIKEL, PROMISE, OBASI, EFE, EZENWA, HARUNA-LUKMAN, RABIU-IBRAHIM ARE SOURCED BY GANIYU-SALAMI, LADAN-BOSSO, YEMI-TELLA)
*** LIKEWISE ALSO, WHEN KESHI WAS A SUPER EAGLES COACH, HE SOURCED FOR PLAYERS LIKE: AGBIM, OBOABONA, EGWEKWE, STANLEY-EZOENYI, OSHANIWA, SUNDAY-MBA. ALTHOUGH, MOST OF THIS PLAYERS DIDN’T RELEVANT MORE THAN TWO YEARS FUTURE FOOTBALL.
###$ EQUAVEON CAN NEVER BOAST OF ONE PLAYERS HE HAS PRODUCE FOR ANY NIGERIA TEAM AND STILL FUNCTION/RELEVANT FOR MORE THAN ONE YEAR FOR FUTURE FOOTBALL
### EQUAVEON ALWAYS RELY ON ALREADY-MADE PLAYERS.
@CSN FU*K YOU MUMU JOURNALIST FOR GIVE THESE JAGABAN AGBERO EX INTERNATIONALS VOICE AND MIND TO CORRUPT THE AVERAGE CLUELESS BLIND FOLLOW THE LEADER KORI KORI FANS LIKE @STAN SADLY 70% OF NIGERIAN FANS ARE FOLLOW FOLLOW FANS LIKE @STAN WE ARE OFFICIALLY CURSED AND SADLY THANKS TO MEDIA OULETS LIKE @CSN THAT CONSTANTLY GIVE THESE BASTARDS VOICE WE WILL BE SOUTH SUDAN IN THE NEAR FUTURE OUR FOOTBALLIS OFFICIALLY A THING OF THE PAST @MUTIU ADEPOJU I CURSE YOU AND ALL EX INTERNATIONALS FOR THIS YOU WILL SEE NO FAVOR IN YOUR MISERABLE LIVES GOD WILL DEAL WITH ALL OF YOU IF NIGERIA FAIL TO REACH WORLD CUP FOR A 2ND TIME, ALL YOUR ENDEVOURS IN LIFE WILL FAIL FROM GASAU O TO TINUBU OR MUMU NIGERIAN COACHES LIKE UNAEL OO TO UDEZE O TO ODEGBAMI ALL OF YOU WILL BURN FU*K YOU ALL BASTARDS!!!!
Iwunze – calm down, I know how you feel, and it hurts when one sees nasty agendas like this unfolding and it’s long term effects in holding Nigeria back, but you gotta cool it man, don’t let the bastards give you high BP, trust me, I know exactly how you feel – only God can help Nigeria, all we need to do is be full of prayer and stay strong in hope and faith – We are told in the good book that “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”. Let’s try and pray instead of curse.
I know that it sounds rich coming from me, but we must start from somewhere.
@Field Marshal, Bros My anger is 100% I don’t know why @CSN keep influencing Nigeria’s mind and giving these Ex Footballers Mind to destroy our game, Why are Nigerians so tribalistic and dull, this is crippling this country, But bros I really don’t thinl prayer can save this country called Nigeria again. the Majority will not see reason when it comes to Ex Internationals, even if these same Internationals make it clear they want no good for our ball!!!! it is highly discouraging.
@Field Marshal, Bros My anger is 100% I don’t know why @CSN keep influencing Nigeria’s mind and giving these Ex Footballers Mind to destroy our game, Why are Nigerians so tribalistic and dull, this is crippling this country, But bros I really don’t think prayer can save this country called Nigeria again. the Majority will not see reason when it comes to Ex Internationals, even if these same Internationals make it clear they want no good for our ball!!!! it is highly discouraging.
Leave the CSN out of your stupidity. CSN isn’t influencing anything rather, a fan right here with us you but will never know because you are an ódé
Iwunze
Broda, I dey hear you o, but I have no other suggestion to make but prayer my guy – I am a child of God and He is the only one I know who can perform miracles and do the impossible – You and I both know very well that this is what this “Anomaly” of a so called country called Nigeria needs – A Miracle.
We don’t have enough people with militant mindset and the mental fortitude to take the country back by force from those thieves holding the country to ransom in every quarter, so in the absence of that solution (for now) all we really can do is pray, it can be no worse than what we are currently doing, which is just allowing the thieves to run up the peoples BP’s variously.
Why should Eguavoen resign over a meaningless “dead rubber” loss to Rwanda? Eguavoen let a B-team play that match because there was nothing at stake. He qualified Nigeria for AFCON and topped his group with matches to spare.
@Omo9ja, is Rohr not an “Oyinbo” coach? Why did he not resign when Eguavoen’s SE thrash his Benin team 3-0 in the first AFCON qualifier in Uyo?
I agree with Adepojo, Eguavoen should be given the job on a substantive basis instead of going to get a foreign “cut and nail” coach that will not take SE anywhere. He knows the team very well and can only get it better by correcting his mistakes. There is need for continuity. No expensive foreign coach will perform any magic
tony k abi watin?
As you wish on others, let it be the same onto you. oya say amen!
wereey! useless jagba jantis, yuh be 419! kwasia!
lol……………….Chei! Hmm………. who do us like this . Nigerians are truly the problem of Nigeria. Eguavoen who could open his mouth and say that creativity is the problem of the SE but yet in his technical capacity has done zilch in searching for a creative player; rather he has continued with Iwobi and Co.
Due to their greed they make football administration look like nuclear physics. Have they tried out Shola Shotire of PAOK or Ebenezer Akinsanmiro or Sylvester Jasper in the attacking midfield role ?? Imagine a midfield of Onyedika , Uche Chrisantus and Shotire behind lookman osimhen and chukwueze.
Maduka had dropped another stinker but watch as he continues to get invited. As if they expect him to wake up one day as prime buffon. Let us even concede that they are being careful when inviting players for competitive matches, what about friendlies? they will still invite either Maduka or Okoye or Uzoho. Are these the only goal keepers of Nigerian descent in the world?? what about Arthur Okonkwo, Owen Goodman and Noah atubolu and even Jonathan Rasheed. Have they even tried these goalkeepers? Never! they are wicked and greedy thats why.
I will stick my neck out to state that Nigeria will never achieve anything great in football and certainly will never rise to the level of the USA 94 TEAM. The reason is the Vice President then in the person of Augustus Aikhomu gave westerhof all the support required. As long as these crooks are in charge, you fans will continue to witness frustration and disappointments. If Boniface was playing for England or France and put up such shambolic performance, he may never get an invite again but trust our people now. They would have greased their palms with cool FX.
We do not do things based on Merit and that is why our football will continue to be in the wilderness.
Bye bye to 2026 world Cup
Well said, @Glory. I saw your response to my submission on @Kenneth’s view. But I hope you’re prepared to hold everyone accountable—including yourself. Because if the NFF retains Eguaveon and he performs as poorly as history suggests, it will be yet another example of how we’ve allowed mediocrity to thrive in Nigerian football. Make no mistake, we’re staring at a rerun of past failures. The man’s resume reads like a cautionary tale: fleeting success, followed by tactical exposure at the highest level when it matters most.
2022 AFCON? A blazing start, only to fumble against a more organized Tunisia in the Round of 16. 2006 AFCON? Great group stage, great quarter final, then undone by a tactically superior Tunisian side in the semis. U-17 tournaments? More of the same—promise dashed by poor tactical preparation. CHAN Eagles? Failure. U-23 team? Disappointment. Eguaveon is the master of creating hope only to crush it spectacularly when faced with a coach who knows what they’re doing.
No Nigerian coach has had as many opportunities to put the country on the map as Eguaveon. Maybe Amodu Shaibu had a few more, but Amodu delivered—he qualified us for the 2002 World Cup and even won the Beach Soccer AFCON with the Sand Eagles, at a time when many Nigerian football fans didn’t even know how that type of football is played. Even Stephen Keshi, with fewer chances, not only qualified us for the 2014 World Cup but also won the 2013 AFCON at a time when many Nigerian football fans didn’t even know how that type of football is played. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for Eguaveon’s first notable feat after four stints in charge of the national team.
My dear, these final six World Cup qualifiers are “do-or-die”. We need at least five wins, some on the road, yet Eguaveon’s track record in away matches and high-pressure scenarios inspires zero confidence. His predictable style of play, telying overly on wing play, leaky defense, and inability to adapt to opponents are glaring weaknesses. Coaches like Hugo Broos, Gernot Rohr, and Splitter are already dissecting these flaws. Do you honestly think they aren’t preparing to exploit his game plan?
Even Rohr—yes, Rohr, whom many criticized when he was here—pointed out the Super Eagles’ “small problem” in defense before their last meeting. And guess what? That small problem almost cost us the game. Now imagine what happens when these same teams, brimming with confidence from recent encounters with us, face us again. Will Eguaveon suddenly transform into an astute tactician overnight?
Let’s be clear: Eguaveon is the greatest underachieving national team coach in Nigeria, considering the sheer number of opportunities he’s had. To those defending him, I ask: how many times do we need to see this story play out before we learn? This isn’t about disrespecting local coaches; it’s about acknowledging that the job requires a level of expertise and adaptability Eguaveon simply hasn’t shown.
If he fails—again—I hope you’re ready to apologize to those of us who warned against this. Until then, let’s hope the NFF finally grows a backbone and does what’s necessary: hire a competent foreign coach who can truly take this team to the World Cup. God help us if they don’t.
Hahaha! Continue making noise. Those who knows the game in real-time and the real Nigerians know what they want. You are doing well with your false narrative anyway. Nna, clap for yourself.
Papafem yuh de alrite? shey na de apologyse of a mumu man like dat yeye glory pipo wanchop??
dis wan nor be against yuh oo, because noting do watin yuh yan really but pls if na play make uh stopam abeg, wetin pipo need na qaulicifation not apologi from mumu men like @glory abeg ooo kai!
I Glory, the same one that left this forum after some issues with Pompei about a year ago, wish to state that I am not and definitely not the Glory that has been posting comments here ever since I left. I seldom visit this forum but a close friend seeing comments under the name Glory called my attention to it. Everyone has a right to answer any name which we all must respect. But opinions on issues can somehow define who carries a name and this might go as far as leading to derogatory responses.
It’s in view of sich responses, which has always been the case on this forum that I painstaking decided against my decision to put this comment here. And this definitely will be the last. So going forward, anyone READING POST FROM THAT GLORY OR ANY OTHER GLORY SHOULD BE REST ASSURED THAT ISN’T ME
“Fool me once shame on you,fool me twice shame on me”
“Once bitten,twice shy”
“Those who do not learn from past mistakes are bound to repeat it”.
When do we ever learn in this country?
cos this is becoming ridiculous. Always wishing for stone to turn to bread.
He’s just trying to be politically correct; that is public opinion to maintain a “good” relationship with a former colleague, and not necessarily his private and genuine views.
Not taking anything away from Eguavoen. He’s a good coach, but it’s clear that he should be thanked for his work in Afcon qualification and moved back to his existing role as TD. We need a new advanced foreign coach, and I expect the NFF to be quick about it before the new year. Let’s not hand the new coach a ready excuse for time constraints in the event of failure.
Clearly, South Africa (Broos), Benin (Rohr), and Rwanda are reaping their early investments in top-class coaches. These coaches seem to always have some tricks up their sleeves. Without a world-class foreign coach (not sure there’s any Indigenous one), our world-class players will look average on the field of play.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS WC 2026. The world wants to see Osimhen, Lookman, Ekong etc represent Africa – much more than they want to see any players from any our group opponents.
so a triblastic dog can actually make some sense?????
Heavens alive! dis mumu shima x micheal actually said someting dat is making sense today oooo kai!
i wuld neva had beliefed it if sonbody telling me dat de triblastic dog get little sense for inside hin oblong oblongota walahi!
Kai! pmsl!!!
dat comment above is not for shitman x daniel oooo lol, it is for his triblastic bros kel.
pls, redirect de above comment from me to kel abeggi, is not for de mumu shitman x daneil, is for kel his triblast bros. thanx