Forgive my seeming enragement in this piece.
The matter of Gernot Rohr, the German coach of Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, must have been finally rested. Most Nigerians are in an unwritten agreement that the man must just to go. No football administrator dares to bring that subject back again in any guise or form.Our collective mumu (stupidity) must stop.
We have been fooled and held down for too long by the colonial mentality that ‘anything White is better’. For too long also, that slavery-mentality has influenced the decisions we took on even the small issue of who to engage as national team coach for Nigeria. Football is a game for God’s sake, it is not going to the moon!
Lately, we even went to the shameful depth of paying a White coach who turns out to be clearly not better or more qualified than our own legion of Nigerians, humongous wages that could have been better deployed to grow football in its entirety in Nigeria through a well-planned intervention in the domestic game. The man did not physically do anything of substance to impact the game in the country, did not develop a single player, did not help a single club or academy, did not win any laurels, did not even stay in the country long enough to pretend to be working. Yet, without blind-folding Nigerians and the lawyers that must have scrutinized and approved it, the NFF knotted the entire country into a paper-contract that could not be terminated no matter how poorly the man did the job he was hired to do. How did that happen in this 21st Century? It was the worst form of mumu imaginable.
And to imagine that that foolery went on for 6 years in a country that boasts some of the most intelligent and most educated homo sapiens, is simply unbelievable.
Nigerians have to wake up from that nightmarish dream because they are at that point again, faced with circumstances no different or better than those that made the country hire the German coach to start with, discussing how to get another ‘journeyman’ half-baked foreign coach again. Nigerians are heading back to their immediate ‘vomit’.
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Why are we falling for this mumu again?
What is in winning a silverware at the expense of wasting an entire generation of retired ex-football players that have paid their dues, sacrificed their lives serving the country, and are never treated decently and given the opportunity to better themselves, garner experience and succeed as coaches in the world?
There can be no gain without pain.
We can hope to get the respect we deserve until we end this physical and mental enslavement that has crippled us for over 500 years (and still counting). there must be a price to pay.
At the end of the day, this is all race and colour, unfortunately. And we must all wake up to that reality.
The Black person must make the needed sacrifices, faltering and falling and getting up again each time to continue the battle that has moved silently from the fields of economics, politics, culture, and so on, and invaded his greatest passion and path to freedom and equality – sport!
This is the final frontier. Sport can be the Black man’s greatest weapon. If we surrender that which can change the world for better, we lose everything.
Hiring a foreign White man after our immediate past experiences may look trivial on the surface, but beneath the surface it is another subtle march towards enslaving a whole generation of deserving Nigerians (from the 1994 set of Super Eagles) that have earned the right to occupy that space (coaching) in our football structure, but are being denied through this open, unacceptable denigration by those in charge of Nigerian football.
The generation of Nigerian footballers from the 1990s will be wasted again if we do not wake up, shine our eyes to see clearly what lies ahead. That a few were once hired and ‘failed’ cannot be an excuse, because thats what hiring another foreigner would tantamount to.
The evidence is all around, even in Western capitals, of the capacity of Nigerians to be the best. In virtually all fields of human endeavour, you find them working hard, and the facilities, becoming world leaders.
Even Nigeria’s trained engineers and doctors, products of educational institutions in Nigeria that we all acknowledge are decaying, are being sought after by foreign countries. They are leaving the country in droves for the greener pastures of the West and Middle East because their country would not give them the respect and treatment and facilities they need to excel.
Yet, the great South African leader, one of the most respected men in history, late Nelson Mandela, reminded us before his death:
“The world will not respect Africa until Nigeria earns that respect. The Black people of the world need Nigeria to be great, as a source of pride and confidence”.
That’s the burden of responsibility Nigerians, including those in Nigerian football, carry on their shoulder.
Are we so blinded by selfish interests and personal gains that we cannot see the damage being done to the psyche of all Black players, particularly our huge army of young Nigerian youths, through helping to fuel the notion of the inferiority that we display in the simple choice that we make of hiring a coach for our national teams?
Once again, football is not rocket science. Thats why every Nigerian is an ‘expert’. Football is a simple art form.
What is needed is a good plan to prepare retired superstar players, with all their invaluable experiences and laurels garnered from Europe, to take up their role as ‘teachers’ of the game they have mastered in Europe. In them Nigerian football has the basic ingredients to excel and gain respect in the world.
Nigeria must prepare them to become models of good coaching, to take them through the narrow path of practicing the abundant virtues that underline their own success – a level playing field, hard work, team spirit, endless practice, discipline, decency, not living with the virus of corruption that has eaten deep into the fabric of daily life in our country (how to succeed without embracing it), locking up their superstardom as players in the closet of their rooms, working diligently, shunning arrogance and ostentatious living, embracing the power of humility, and leading young Nigerian football players in clubs and the national teams down the similar path treaded by them to succeed.
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That’s the way to go – with patriotic ex-Nigerian players well-prepared by the NFF to teach the art they mastered on the fields and classrooms of Europe to Nigerian kids. The administrators should identify those of them willing to walk down that path and guide them into becoming productive coaches for Nigerian football and future exports to the rest of the world.
But this must be a deliberate plan of action that will start from Nigeria’s own backyard, with Nigerian teams. It can never start from outside.
Finally, the revolution might as well start now, on the eve of AFCON 2022.
The country has already lost much ground with Gernot Rohr, and with AFCON so close, the fear of failure should be banished. Firing Rohr shall generate some consequences, but that small step could become a giant leap for Nigerian football.
The decision to sink or swim with a Nigerian coach is one that requires courage by visionary leadership, not those seeking pyrrhic victories and short-term benefits. This is a decision for the long-distance runner with a simple plan, a clear vision and the determination and will to get to the finish line.
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Baba segun odegbami am in support totally.NFF should hire Amunike and manu Garba and see good results.Gernot Rohr failed to look inward our league and always saying our best players are in Europe.It was from there I knew he has nothing to give Nigeria.
Rebuild our football with Amunike whether we win Afcon or not !!! Whether we qualify for world cup or not !!! Please enough of Gernot Rohr.
For those supporting Gernot Rohr and saying he had qualified us easily to afcon and world cup,I pray may your life not be manage the way Gernot Rohr is managing our football currently !!!. Gernot Rohr is the worst coach Nigeria ever had.Imagine Nigeria leading Sierra Leone 4 goals up and they equalised right in front of our home crowd in Benin Edo state !!! We lost to CAR in Lagos !!! Haba and some persons will have conscience to eat and sleep and support this coach !!! Nonsense
Nigeria my dead country…
Nigeria my Country is not dead
I can pick 5 good defenders in our local league that plays better than balogun and ekong despite the league had been poorly funded.We have multiple talented players in the league that just need few matches and confidence to withstand opponent.
Athletico Madrid came to Abuja and played our team B super eagles,and I was expecting Gernot Rohr to build his dream team around those boys,but he ignored them all.
If the coach cannot go to our local league,then he should go to our academies around the country.
“We have been fooled and held down for too long by the colonial mentality that ‘anything White is better’. For too long also, that slavery-mentality has influenced the decisions we took on even the small issue of who to engage as national team coach for Nigeria. Football is a game for God’s sake, it is not going to the moon!
Nigerians have to wake up from that nightmarish dream because they are at that point again, faced with circumstances no different or better than those that made the country hire the German coach to start with, discussing how to get another ‘journeyman’ half-baked foreign coach again. Nigerians are heading back to their immediate ‘vomit”.
Of course we have to. We have to take Nigeria back from our oppressors.
Finally, the revolution might as well start now, on the eve of AFCON 2022.
The country has already lost much ground with Gernot Rohr, and with AFCON so close, the fear of failure should be banished. Firing Rohr shall generate some consequences, but that small step could become a giant leap for Nigerian football.
The decision to sink or swim with a Nigerian coach is one that requires courage by visionary leadership, not those seeking pyrrhic victories and short-term benefits. This is a decision for the long-distance runner with a simple plan, a clear vision and the determination and will to get to the finish line”.
Oh wow. I am so happy for you Mr. Segun Odegbami. Thanks for your boldness.
Fellow Nigerians, this is just the beginning. From football to our government/leaders/rulers.
We patriotic Nigerians are just started. Our mumu don do. We want to have a better life in this country.
We don’t want to go abroad before we can have a better life. Nigeria is our country and we have everything here to survive but our oppressors are not ready for a change.
Our mumu don do Nigerians.
We have to make the move not because of football but in general. Nigeria must rise up again.
Oga Rohr should please go. Amaju Pinnick should please resign.
It is a big shame to signed that kind of contract with Oga Rohr. NFF should be blamed for this because of their own selfish interests.
Let’s welcome Amunike and Egbo, Marnu Gerba, Peter Rufai, Enyeama and Ikeme on board.
Let’s give Amunike and co our full support. Made in Nigeria is all we needed with transparency. The rules of law should be in place because nobody above the law. We are tired of foriegn coach. This is the way to go. God bless Nigeria!!!
When Siasia Amokachi and Oliseh were there we missed back to back nations cup
Even Keshi they complained and sacked him straight away.
All this explayers are the problem they over complicat the system and overcomplain
As if they could do the job any better
Fool… Slave mentality. Did the NFF powers pay Siasia, Oliseh and Amokachi the kind of money they have been paying a whiteman Gernot Rohr? Can you a Blackman get such a job and treatment in Germany Rohr’s country?
Lump all local coaches together because of the failure of a few is nothing but wickedness and treating oneself to disdain. Which Nigerian dead or alive has ever gotten the kind of contract Rohr got with Nigeria in football? To the point the ugly and idiotic Amaju Fraud Pinnick was even willing to send and pay for the training of his whiteman quack mercenary coach…
Most blackmen don’t even need help to feel naturally inferior to whites… Let’s save some respect, pride and authority for ourselves please…
Idiot why not as a doctor/ engineer/ scientist etc in Europe many Africans earn the same even more than white contemporaries. Employer determines salary and if it’s not acceptable you reject.
Salary is per you skill , qualifications
Can Nigeria pay the ongoing rate they pay footballers or European coach.
The amount they pay Rohr in a month is what Iwobi collects per week in Everton
NFF supposedly invested in paying Rohr all this money so they can qualify for World Cup and get paid millions of dollars for participation.
Continue to lie to yourself NFF will always pay a white coach more because they feel a whiteman deserve better working conditions and emolument more than their kind. Be there…
Siasia and Amokachi did well for Nigeria. Check the recorded books.
No need to say a single word because JimmyBall already did. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
WHY DOES ROHR PREFER PLAYERS PLAYING IN SAUDI ARABIA, GERMAN SECOND DIVISION AND THOSE IN TURKEY TO PLAYERS PLAYING IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GERMAN FIRST DIVISION AND THOSE PLAYING IN EUROPA COMPETITION.
WHY DOES HE USE “EXPERIENCE” AS AN EXCUSE TO IGNORE YOUNG PLAYERS WHO ARE DOING VERY WELL IN THEIR CLUBS AND INSTEAD CALL UP AND START OLDER PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED THEIR BEST FOOTBALL IN THE PAST AND HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE TEAM.
THE COACH HAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED SUPER EAGLES FANS. HE STARTED WELL WITH TAKING YOUNG PLAYERS TO THE LAST WORLD CUP BUT SINCE THEN HE HAS DONE NOTHING OF NOTE TO IMPROVE THE TEAM. ITS TIME FoR HIM TO GO. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LET GO SOONER BUT I GUESS THE NFF WERE WAITING FOR THE QUALIFIERS TO BE OVER. ANYONE EXCEPT SALUSI CAN TAKE OVER THE TEAM BECAUSE THE PLAYERS, TALENT AND ABILITY IS THERE. ITS JUST FOR THE NEW COACH TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE USE OF THESE PLAYERS AND ALSO INVITE THE RIGHT PLAYERS AND DROP THOSE PLAYERS WHO ADD NOTHING TO THE TEAM
Nigeria’s ex-footballers are not very intelligent people. They’re mostly limping about scrounging for contracts at the Sports Ministry.
Local coaches should not use the SE as SIWES. Let them take up other jobs and succeed consistently before thinking of handling the SE. Many of them are currently without a job and you want them to be appointed same way you encouraged Yobos appointment without a coaching badge. Stop this mumu as well. The SE needs only the best hands right now and not rookies.
Nigerians are so stupid. Is the job of national team coach to help club sides? Where is that done anywhere.
Look at Nigerian local league why can’t the so called experts from Nigeria fix.
If you look at premier league over half of the coaches are foreign you have to be humble to learn from others
But was any system setup in place to learn anything from Rohr
Blaming Rohr is the easiest thing to do
The coacghes you mentioned being foreign in the premieer league are world renown top coaches… they are known for having a magic wand of winning from the history of their careers… what has Rohr won in his suspect coaching career where even him offering to help Bordeaux free of charge to turn good results in last season when they were struggling was ignored and not taken seriously by the management of Bordeaux… man is as quack as they can be bro… according to Joseph Dosu… he is a mechanic. Lol…
@JimmyBall what had Westerhoff and Keshi won before becoming Super Eagles coach – including in Togo and Mali. Did he won Nations Cup with those teams??
That is not the point Jimmy. You should know that even in Europe, foreign coaches are also employed.
It is inferiority complex that is affecting Segun.
If I may ask:
1.Is the duty of super eagles coach to develop sunshine stars of Akure.
2.If the US company in Germany decide to fire you today because they have a perceived citizen whom they feel can do a better job that you, after meeting the set targets for you, would you not cry racism?
3. How is Odegbami different from a racist?
4. Why can’t all these ex find a job elsewhere?
5. Is super eagles coaching job a national cake for ex footballers?
6. If Genort Thor is sacked, are we supposed to go must Nigerian coach or find the most qualified who applies for the job?
7. Don’t you think it is shallow to say a man who has only featured in 2 major competition, which we all know it will be difficult to win any due to the situation we found ourselves at the said time (in fact, we know winning world cup for any African side is unrealistic) should have won 50 trophies in the 5 years of his stay?
You guys should put things in perspective. I am not saying we should not sack Thor but the level of attack from you guys and Segun is unchristian and is tantamount to witchcraft.
We should be careful what we want.
I come in peace.
@Ben leave that Jimmy very soon he will tell us what how much he was paid for unnecessary attack on Rohr. Donno why his own is too much on this issue of sacking Rohr that he now put for head. Sacking and hiring is part of the game. Rohr is not the only coach to be sacked so what is the fuss. He has not win any tea cup he did not do this and that habah! That is the only thing most of them are saying. Is it all the premier League coaches that has won trophy? Nonsense
@Michael… Senegal and Algeria are showing us good examples how to trust you own, those two nations have local coaches whose teams are the best on the continent, Nigeria has been playing football even before independence and by now we should not be hiring white foreigners, especially avaerage ones like Rohr, who fooled everyone with his hypnotic magic, as the supremos of our national team anymore… I feel personally uncomfortable, when during world cups and major tournamnets for a African nations to have camera on their bench with the whole world watching and you see a whiteman directing affairs… issuing instructions and commanding the theatre… when do we outgrow that spectacle, mind you, whites feel Blacks cant lead themselves and must need his white master… he beckons to him to be saved… lol!
I know a lot of white people will view those scenarios and be thinking cant these people ever manage to lead and guide themselves? It is insulting… bebause for the whites, to reverse their their own ego to give a blackman such position is a taboo… out of the discussion, infact not permitted, to the whole black people especially when such a country like Nigeria, has had professionals who played at the elite A levels… we just need to set rules, guidelines, framework and markers for everyone in capacity to their job professional and in line with statutes… no one can deny that Gernot Rohr, though may not be a classical top coach in today’s game, he started well but have become corrupt and insincere… there is no way a man like Rohr who played for Germany and Bayern Munich in his heydays wont know a good player when he sees one…
…but what we have come to observe is that he runs his team like a closed cult… hardly allowing new players in… now on merit, that will be the most damning attitude to push as a coach… he does not trust young players at all, otherwise most of us know that if Akinkunmi Amoo is thrown into the thick of action today for Super Eagles… he will shut everyone’s mouth on how to be a traditional No.10(playmaker) for the Nigeria team… a role most people who have played recently hardly know how to scratch the surface… I am personally angry to know that a player like Junior Ajayi, alongside Mo Sallah, Sadio Mane and Aubemeyang was the only player in 2017 named in the African 11 consisting of players plying their trade on the continent and those abroad… he was the only player from Nigeria on the list if I am not mistaken, to think that 4years down the line and having continued to perform consistently well all those years, Junior Ajayi has yet to play for Super Eagles…
Same with Peter Olayinka who competed well for almost three consecutive years in Europe elite competitiions now and even scored again recently… Anthony Nwakaeme, Cyril Dessers, Umar Sadiq… for the case of Junior Ajayi… I kept watching that guy from CS Sfaxien to Al-Ahly and he was just simply fantastic… when Emmanuel Amuneke observed him and came out with his support for a chnace for the guy… I knew my eyes have not been lying to me all along… if you have not played football and experience different difficult match situations on the field… you ownt be able to diefferentiate a real player from an average one because everyone can trap and cntrol the ball and do some silly dribbles… when you are looking for players who can influence a game… you look for key attributes that special players could bring to a squad… in football, hardwork and teamplay is the first… we all eulogized the likes of Iheanacho, Iwobi and Moses Simon when they played age grade competitions but the real thing is that these guys have shown themselves not to really right now be on any elite levels… nmeaning for those like them including faltering Balogun and panicky Ekong… any coach who means well is supposed to be trying others who have capacity for their roles too… but hey, not Rohr, his team is like casr concrete work… once formed no more tampering even if comes with faults and cracks…
I do not believe that you must only play in a reputable team in Europe to be seen as being good… a lot of our regulars in Super Eagles will not make first 11 in the team of Al-Ahly including our central defence pairing of Balogun and Ekong… when you go to that team you see Egyptian National Team players in numbers all the time… so for me, we must rethink how some of us view players only in the light of playing in Europe… seasons back, there was a certain player Tresor Mputu who was naturally talented at TP Mazembe, Arsenal wanted to sign him with Wenger inviting him for trials he refused because he had everything he needed in DR Congo playing for his home team… Tresor Mputu that time could bench the likes of Iheanacho; Onuachu and Iwobi today clean…
This makes zero sense. Football originated from English and they hired a Swede (Sven Goran Eriksen) and an Italian (Fabio Capello) in the last 20 years to manage them.
@James , NFF couldn’t have put any system in place for our coaches to learn under a mechanic as Rohr , because NFF themselves knew all along that Rohr is a scam and his employed as a dismissed coach with outrageous records of as lower as 13%and 27% with Niger , Burkina Faso was enough to prove that Rohr is not qualified to be coach of Nasarawa United , as Orji Kalu never needs oracle to tell him that it will be an insult and calamitous to allow a clueless Rohr near Eyimba coach , not even on trier .
NFF knew all along that Rohr is not that a coach that anyone can learn under , but they are only after a corrupt mechanic as Rohr who can compromised his salary;
If NFF believes in Rohr , why did they recommended Rohr to proceed on refresher training after he was embarrassingly tutored in the rudimentary of coaching skills , not by Pep , not Kloop , not by Zaidan but an Algerian local coach Belmadi that had less than one year to prepare his team that couldn’t qualify for the previous Afcon as Rohr team ; with Rohr spent one year on the job before Belmadi was given his team
If you have a younger brother as promising coach , would you have allowed him to pass through tutelage of Rohr ?
Would you honestly pray for your life be run as Rohr has been running SE coach 6 years uninterrupted running without directions?
Our Mumu don do ; enough of slavery mentality , please wake up , inferiority complex must stop , period !
Thank you chief Segun Odegbami MON
If Set in Odegbami was really serious about getting our exinternationals to coach the Super Eagles at some point, why can’t he advise them that towards their retirement of their playing careers, they should pick up coaching UEFA coaching badges and work with lower division European teams as most coaches do before they hit limelight. Why must the Super Eagles coaching job be given to ex – internationals just because they sacrifice playing for Nigerian. As many have flavoured on this forum that Super Eagles players must be invited based on merit, so Super Eagles coaches should be selected out of merit too, abi??
After all Clarence Seedorf, Edgar Davids, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Ole Gunner Solksjaer are all Okocha, Kanu, Amokachi, Finidi, Oliseh, Mutiu and Mikel’s mate.
Let’s call a spade a spade, no progress without a process and it’s not by NFF creating opportunities for ex-internationals. This just goes to show that many of them have not thought about the lives they want to live after they retire. In the last year’s of John Terry and Lampard’s playing careers at Chelsea FC, they started taking coaching classes. Our players will be moving to Saudi Arabia and China for more money. They move there finally, earn the money they desire, but no future plan to help them keep it. Why??
Then they come back to Nigeria to fight for Super Eagles job with publication upon publication in CSN and fights through NFF. We are our own Nightmare. Not the Whiteman.
Let them start from government and politics I’m sure that was what Mandela was referring to and football.
If u like field home based coach and 11 home based for
Nations cup no respect earned if the administration of the country is crap.
Mr Segun Odegbami should have added that a corporate organization sponsorship should be facilitated to be responsible for regular payment of would be local coaches salary , to make them independent of NFF, otherwise, Amaju fraud Pinnick would frustrate them with unpaid salary from take off as they wickedly did to others, particularly Oliseh , 6 months , that unpaid Coach Oliseh had to be paying his assistants employed by NFF and sponsoring his team !!
Siasia that produced the Nigerian highest decorated laurel in football Mikel -UEFA cup , FA cup , Premiership and Afcon cup ; it was interesting that , Siasia was not only owed backlog of unpaid salaries, but Siasia had to go begging Governor of his state for money to sponsor his team to U20 tournament; as at then Siasia came back not feeling inferior to any white coach as he had photo finished with Argentina team lead by a risen Messi ( Taye Taiwo product of that team later became free kick Specialist in SE after JJ Okocha ; while the clueless couldn’t produce , just one reliable full left back , let alone free kick Specialist) .
Siasia 2 Olympic appearances were saddening, as Siasia last Olympic was rescued in foreign land before they can get flight ticket to be in the host country, few minutes before the kick off match against host nation , even at then , Siasia still won that match , and later came home with bronze , only solitary medal won by the entire Nigerian contingent in that year Olympic ( Siasia is a magician !!)
Keshi won Afcon in a first attempt with a team that couldn’t qualify for the previous tournament, and the first ever local coach to have done that in the history of Nigerian football; qualified for WC ; Keshi rewards was backlog of unpaid salaries and subsequent sack after reaching 2 round in his first attempt WC ( the corrupt NFF never wanted local coaches to succeed because of their corrupt practices with quack and scammers as Rohr )
Compare to the mechanic Rohr that was bundled out in Afcon semi final by Algeria local coach , having already crashed out in the first round of WC ; his salary was not only steady but also fraudulently increased almost by the fraud-Pinnick!!
You know what’s funny, a lot of commentators here say Amaju Pinnick is corrupt for hiring Rohr in the first place, not knowing that he was actually interviewed and recommended by Price Water House Coopper. That is the firm that you must pass through to get OFF Super Eagles job and they validate all the claims the coaches makes before recommending him as a coach. For the ignoramuses out here. Also the claim that Amaju Pinnick is corrupt us actually his staff that are the corrupt ones and not him. I have worked in corporate events and sponsorship before, especially with the fact that I once worked for an organization that handled the Glo/CAF awards and congress in 2000 at the Emo Hotel. You should see the way NFF members were cutting deals left and right. Simple transportation for delegates had issues and I was on the transportation and logistics committee. I had to go to some hotels we booked back then to assist with moving international delegates to the conference. The truth is many people at NFF and the Sports Ministry are not suppose to be there in the first place. If anyone doubts my claims on Glo/CAF congress, I have the pictures of myself and Mitchell Platini to prove it. As well as Emmanuel Adebayor at Eko Hotel
Rohr from
Day one of the World Cup
Qualifier was screaming he wanted to
Play all
His matches in Uyo because of distraction and bad pitch.
He also complained that Eko hotel is over 1hr or 2 hrs drive from the stadium due to traffic.
Now let’s talk of assistant coaches what is the job of Yobo and Salisu. Those ones are they foreigners .
They cannot find creative midfielders for Rohr?
So called critics of Rohr don’t mention incompetence of NFF. Look at the non existence U23,U20 or U17
What of the Nigerian league that is supposed to produce players.
Only a sick country with corrupt football administrators and dumbo gullible people would a mechanic as Rohr scam for 6 years running, with head not rolling !!
Dumbo Rohr should not only forced to resign where he refuses , but his business partner Fraud-Pinnick should be prosecuted for sighing a $2 million contract clause for a scammer mechanic a.k.a Belmadi’s trainee
Amaju fraud-Pinnick should be prosecuted for bringing a scammer as Rohr for 6 years ruining of SE .
Slavery mentality and inferiority complex must stop # no more scammer; if we can’t afford world class coach ; then we must swim or sink with our local coaches as Senegal, Algeria did and today the so called white coach Rohr has been tailing them 6 years ruining
@ De Star
You forgot to add that the NFF had planned on hiring another coach but was told to go F-themselves. Rohr was interviewed and recommended by the German FA based on his previous experience in Africa and in Europe.
To say that someone is a ‘fraud’, even though he has delivered on ALL his set objectives is asinine.
Prosecute Pinnick for fraud? On what basis? Some of you just mouth off without critically thinking thru what your talking about. The problem with you people is you’re all stuck in the past. Pinnick is a lot smarter than the whole lot of you put together. First thing he did was to have the books audited by one of the most reputable Accounting firms in the world. Second, he hired another company to ensure there were no financial irregularities in their transactions. That way, the NFF has receipts for all their transactions. That is why ALL the allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud have been thrown out of court.
Lastly, he has had the remunerations for the Coach paid outside the books of the NFF by a sponsor – Aiteo. Rohr is paid as a staff of that company and is not on the books of the NFF.
But stupid Nigerians will argue without any evidence that Rohr is a fraud and corrupt. Especially all these so called ex-internationals, who are nothing but unintelligent idiots. They are upset that they cannot foist their players on Rohr and thus, they cannot make money from selling those players. Dumb arses. THEY are the real problem with Nigerian football, not the NFF or Pinnick.
You all should start preparing yourselves for a very poor outing at the Nations Cup and not making the WC. Which is a just outcome for letting idiots hijack the process.
The German system Rohr is trying to implement that won Germany 4 world cups is not a flamboyant system like Brazil or Spain. It’s result oriented
Vertical movement, swift from GK to attackers and wing play
However the players are not playing at their best.
The useless 94 set that underachieved massively the major issue they should have faced is reorganization of the NFF to be functioning
Other FA are mainly youth Development oriented,
Issuing of coaching license, referee development , league etc
Football has gone scientific now data analysis is what aids the bigger teams and u need knowledge transfer from the center/ HQ of football which is Europe.
What I hate is this racist tone that is going on and black men are quick to shout racism and the drop of a hat.
No matter our grievances we should thread softly and wisely not to paint this issue with the race undertone; which in my book is quite unnecessary.
We should judge a man by his mentality,personality and actions rather than by his colour of his skin.
Nigeria,down the years, has given opportunities to various coaches both local and foreign and everyone has performed to their best of their abilities. We should judge based on their act and precedence rather than where they come from.
Siasia, Keshi,Onigbinde,Amodu, Chukwu etc. Have all served us and won bit to major laurels for the nation. But most have been disaster as well hence their sack.
We shouldn’t forget so soon how Salisu Yusuf was caught red handed with a bribery scandal.
Our fears for having a local coach stem from the fact that they could be calamitous at the end due to their greed and corrupt ways. Precedence has shown us so.
We should remember why we went for Rohr at the first place. We were in a dire situation. A situation we were put into by local coaches at the first place. Rohr came in more like a messiah to kick start a depleted Eagles down in morale.
My problem with Rohr these days has to do with his inept tactics and shocking player selection. He seems to have derailed.
The point is; being Nigerian doesn’t make you a good coach/manager. Neither does being a foreigner. Being qualified both in certification,experience and management makes you a good coach/manager. Race has nothing on quality.
We should always seek the best no matter where they are from. We don’t need to keep recycling local old names that has failed us in the past and expect different results. A leopard doesn’t change his skin.
If we insist on letting go of Rohr; if there is any good qualified Nigerian out there ready to do the job objectively; we can go for him. But the honest question we need to ask ourselves; can we really trust a Nigerian with the Eagles baring in mind past precedence? This has nothing to do with race ,inferiority complex( whatever that means) but more to do with character.
@ Hush, in the context of this debate, the BEST CAN ONLY BE, AS IT RELATES WITH THE PREVAILING WORKING ENVIRONMENT. That being the case, one of our present ex internationals now into coaching just seems to be the honest way to go. No top top manager that knows his onions will ever consider the Nigerian job. Those not so proven ones, will have their dignity easily priced out by the Nigerian corrupt system or they get the boot leaving the team stranded. So based on these fact, I strongly think, evolving with our own while going easy with our expectations from them is the way forward.
Big sege. Thank you for this. Our problem is ourselves. We hate our own color. We believe the white color is superior. The reason why we harm anything black color.
Amuneke, finidi, egbo, garba can do better than this clueless Rohr only if nff decide to support them on the job. Or else I will ask those guys to stay away from the job.
It’s just a pity that the likes of clueless rohr will be given a bogus contract again. So sad because it will always affect us as passionate fans of the super eagles.
I think amaju pinnink is not clean and God will surely expose him one day.
Rohr can’t do more than what he is doing now. Let him go. He has become corrupt.
1. There is an allegation of his business relationship with an agency.
2. His new contract with a severance pay of 2m$ calls for scrutiny.
3. His and that of pinnick drama on the eve of inviting ighalo back calls for investigation.
4. He is now speaking from the two sides of his mouth. He once said he prefers players from top 5 leagues but he is now inviting players from other leagues neglecting players who are doin well in those A leagues.
5. His foolish for Moses Simon should be investigated.
6. His foolish love for okoye should be investigated. Against CAR, uzoho did well only to drop him in the away match. Who does that. Everything points to the fact uzoho is better than okoye do Nigeria at present moment.
Rohr has become corrupt. When he is sacked we will hear lots of stories.
@ CMN
1. There is an allegation of his business relationship with an agency.
ANS: Prove it in court. You people have tried and failed for the past 6 yrs. Get all your evidence and head to court. Or better still, submit the evidence to FIFA or CAS. Like others, expect to have your allegations thrown out because its all BS! Sour grapes!
2. His new contract with a severance pay of 2m$ calls for scrutiny.
ANS: Severance fees are high when the accused is delivering on his metrics. Rohr has met ALL his performance metrics, so there is no basis for terminating his contract. That’s why he needs to be paid for the duration of his mutually signed contract (per the contract terms). This is even low, compared to other coaches around the world.
3. His and that of pinnick drama on the eve of inviting ighalo back calls for investigation.
ANS: A coach has every right to invite who he feels will help him meet his objectives. Ighalo was Nigeria’s highest scorer for the WCQ and the golden boot winner at the last AFCON. He is still scoring goals and the coach believed his presence would help his young strikers mature faster. Nothing wrong in that.
4. He is now speaking from the two sides of his mouth. He once said he prefers players from top 5 leagues but he is now inviting players from other leagues neglecting players who are doin well in those A leagues.
ANS: Who was neglected from the top 5 leagues? Name 1 player who has not received an invitation to the squad at one time or the other. Bare in mind, they will more than likely be in the Pre-AFCON invitee list of 40 players.
5. His foolish for Moses Simon should be investigated.
ANS: Moses Simon is by far the most versatile of ALL the wingers Nigeria has today. Not a single one of the other players cover their wings (offense, defense) as he does. He plays for a top 5 league in Europe and won player of the month for his club in Sept. and Oct. He has played well for Nigeria in most of his matches (something no other SE did). Why the hate for the guy?
6. His foolish love for okoye should be investigated. Against CAR, uzoho did well only to drop him in the away match. Who does that. Everything points to the fact uzoho is better than okoye do Nigeria at present moment.
ANS: This one is just sour grapes and hatorade on your part, because it is completely baseless. Uzoho is better than Okoye because…. Francis Uzoho is currently #3 player in his club (AC Omonia) and has 1 (as in one) single match for his club this season. Okoye, on the other hand, has played ALL his clubs matches this season. ALL.
Okoye also was named in the Dutch team of the year (2020/2021) season, while Uzoho was released by his previous club that same season. Okoye was just signed by Watford (a premiership team in currently, the best league in the world). Only ONE other African team has a goalkeeper in that League – Senegal. This is a great testament and reward for his great performance.
Yet, you will come here and state that Uzoho is better than Okoye? Seriously???
I DO NOT SHARE THE VIEW THAT PEOPLE CLAMOURING FOR A FOREIGN COACH ARE VICTIMS OF COLONIAL SLAVERY. EVERYONE HAS RIGHT TO THEIR OPINIONS .THE SITUATION WE FOUND OURSELVES AS A COUNTRY WILL NOT MAKE A LOCAL COACH TO EXCEL. THERE IS TOO MUCH TRIBALISM RUNNING THE BLOOD OF EVERY NIGERIA SO BRINGING A LOCAL COACH WILL DEFINITELY RAISE SUCH ACCUSATIONS. I REMEMBERED WHEN AMUNIKE TOOK GOLDEN EAGLET TO WORLD CUP SO MANY PEOPLE ACCUSED HIM OF FIELDING IGBOS, AND THE LAST U17 WHICH WE PERFORMED WOEFULLY THE FANS ALSO CLAIM THEY SELECTED TOO MANY YORUBAS. THIS KIND OF TALKS DOES NOT ALLOW A COACH TO PERFORM AS LOCAL COACHES ALWAYS WANT TO KEEP THE BALANCE OF SELECTION TO FAVOUR ALL ETHNIC.
SECONDLY , PEOPLE KEEP SAYING AMUNIKE SHOULD LEAD EAGLES TO NATIONS CUP AM NOT AGAINST THAT BECAUSE THE TIME IS SHORT AND WE CAN NOT CONTINUE TO WASTE TIME BUT IN ALL HONESTY DOES AMUNIKE HAS THE EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICALITIES TO HANDLE SUPER EAGLES? SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY HE PERFORMED EXCELLENTLY AT U17 ,IS U17 NOT TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM MAIN FOOTBALL. I KNOW QUITE WELL THAT AMUNIKE IS NOT THE STANDARD EAGLES NEED TO SHAKE THE WORLD FOOTBALL. BUT I WONT MIND HIM TAKING OVER.
THIS IDEA OF NIGERIANIZING SUPER EAGLES IS FUNNY, WHAT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS THAT IN THE WORLD OF GENIUS AND EXCELLENT NATIONALITY DOES NOT COUNT, MOST TECHNOCRAT IN SILICON VALLEY ARE NOT EVEN AMERICANS BUT INDIANS, ASIANS AND RUSSIANS. NIGERIA HAS PRODUCED MORE DOCTORS IN USA THAN THE AMERICANS YET NOBODY IS COMPLAINING .
WE DO NOT NEED TO BE CLAMOURING FOR NIGERIANS TO TAKE OVER THE COACHING OF SUPER EAGLES JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE LOCALS .
WE ARE A FOOTBALL NATION BY SKILL NOT BY ORGANIZATION AND TECHNICAL KNOW HOW. WESHOULD NOT FOOLED THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE WON U17 , OLYMPICS SO THEREFORE WE KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT FOOTBALL. WE KNOW NOTHING. ENGLAND IS A FOOTBALL NATION BY ORGANIZATION AND TECHNICAL KNOW HOW BUT NOT BY SKILLS, THAT WHY NON BRITISH WILL NEVER COACH AN ENGLISH TEAM.
HOW MANY OF OUR LOCAL COACHES CAN PLAY PLAYSTAION SOCCER AND EFFECT CHANGES TO WIN, FOOTBALL THESE DAYS IS PLAYED EFFICIENTLY IN THE MENTAL CYCLE. PLAYING FOOTBALL GAME IS SIMULATION AND REQUIRES A LOT MENTAL ALERTNESS. AM NOT SAYING TUCHEL AND CO PLAY GAMES BUT THEY DO SOMETHING SIMILAR ,THEY HAVE A LOT OF STAFFS WORKING BEHIND THEM TO READ GAMES FOR THEM ,THROUGH THE HELP OF ALGORITHM PLAYERS AND TEAMS PLAY CAN BE PREDICTED. AFRICA STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO WHILE NIGERIA HAS NOT EVEN STARTED THE JOURNEY,THAT IS WHY THE BIG MOUTH LIVERPOOL COACH WILL CALL AFRICAN CUP A LITTLE TOURNAMENT,THOUGH HE HAS APOLOGIZED BUT THE TRUTH IS THE BIG WIGS IN FIFA KNOW IT IS A LITTLE TOURNAMENT BUT THEY CAN SAY IT OUT. SOMETIMES I WONDER WHY A START STUDDED TEAM LIKE SENEGAL WILL GET TO THE WORLD CUP AND STRUGGLE TO BEAT ASIAN TEAMS .FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Abi
Look at world war 2 , America had to use foreign scientists like Albert eiseten to create the atomic bomb that one the war.
Meritocracy above nationalism
Look at the whole
Incompetence going on now with NFF if they want to sack a coach at least plan for all the contingencies of contract termination and appointment of new coach.
Standard practice is to know u will pay coach off and u have money for new coach.
Now the whole team no get head , weeks to a major tournament .
The disorganization is from NFF
One clown up there said Rohr should develop our league. Hahahahahahaha. Which league Abeg? How have we fared in the CAF champions league as well as confederations cup in recent years? How have we fared in the nations cup for home based eagles? When we took local players to play against Mexico, what was the result? How have we performed in the junior cadet competitions in recent times? Did the U23 qualify for the just concluded Olympics?
Is it the league that one team cannot win away that Rohr would come and develop? Is it the league that referees get intimidated by the host clubs and he has to succumb to pressure that Rohr would have to develop?
Segun odegbami is raving mad and if he cares about Nigeria so much, he should apply to coach one of the junior cadet teams. I lost respect for odegbami when he said that the renewed contract handed to Rohr was drawn in a way that rorh would reject it. That’s after Rohr net all requirements in his initial contract.
Once again, segun should shut up if he has nothing better to offer
@dennis thank you nd God bless you the for your comment
@Ben leave that Jimmy very soon he will tell us what how much he was paid for unnecessary attack on Rohr. Donno why his own is too much on this issue of sacking Rohr that he now put for head. Sacking and hiring is part of the game. Rohr is not the only coach to be sacked so what is the fuss. He has not win any tea cup he did not do this and that habah! That is the only thing most of them are saying. Is it all the premier League coaches that has won trophy? Nonsense
@ Ben while I see your point concerning making themselves (Local coaches) professionally ready, I, in an unusual support to what ODEGBAMI is saying, believe that Africa must be African in almost all spheres, as to evolve our own football identity in terms of education, football system, football coaching certificate etc.
We must not continue to give in unto being certified by some foreign/western supposedly trainers as proof of qualifications to coach, otherwise we Africans will forever eat of the crumbs falling off the white man’s table.
We must evolve our own unique African identity that relegates the foreign/white man’s method to only good for second place. Hence for that reason, I strongly support we start by putting an out right ban on foreign managers managing our national teams and if ever, they can come as assistants to our Local coaches. Rohr recent handling of things has made it really DETASTEFUL for me to ever wish for another foreign manager irrespective of class.
I am in consonance with Segun ODEGBAMI’S suggestion on going with those ex internationals that are ready to go with the job. We have few of them like Finidi, Oliseh, Amunike, Egbo, etc,
We should let them take up the challenge, continue the process, make mistakes, learn, correct the mistakes, grow n evolve the African identity n in particular the Nigerian. In doing so, hopefully with some success, we can start attracting other countries to want to know few things about our style, where then, we can start training/ certifying them as well just like it happened in 1985, after Nigeria won the JVC under 17 tournament, which resulted in loads of foreign interest/investment in Nigeria football.
Maybe like ODEGBAS has said, it’s time to swim/sink with our own; afterall there isn’t even any sure guarantee the foreign coaches are going to win the world cup or AFCON for us. There is also no guarantee these foreign managers are not going to be corrupted by THE NIGERIAN SYSTEM.
Evolving into our own workable system albeit it might take a long time is honestly the way, we just need patience. The failure of Africa or should I say craftiness of the Western world not to allow Africa evolve our own education, is why Africa has continued/ may forever continue to play second to the West in all aspect of life. We speak their language n foolishly proud ourselves doing that; our economy is defined on their education, our family life also n so on. Now they are even trying to change our diet/food n also our dance steps n also our football. No no no , I strongly support ODEGBAS on this, Rohr must be the last foreign manager to be employed by NFF.
@Glory
Why I respect your perspective on this issue ; I totally disagree with your resolution.
Knowledge is colour blind. I would always seek the best no matter where or who it comes from. The Eagles simply deserve the best qualified for the job.
If it is a foreigner.good. If it is Nigerian. Even better.
We should be wise on issues relating to race lest we become the racist.
We must try to purge ourselves from this narrative that “the white man is out there to get us”. It is a dog eat dog world out there and it goes deeper than race. It is human nature.
Our own people has done more damage to us than the white man would ever do. And they continue to do so.
Working with westerners or other races doesn’t stop us from shaping our identity. Our identity is always ours. It is who we are as a people. Nothing would ever change that. We should work more on personal self, cause at the end of the day, we are all judge by our personality and our deeds.
We should just give the best man the job no matter where they are from.
@ Hush, you are missing the point. This has nothing to do with race in that sense but rather our very fallible reasoning that everything Western is best. Yes the very best irrespective of colour we should go for, but who defines what/who is best? They will tell us qualifications. But then who defines that qualifications/standard? This is where the problem is. Because the west define the standard for us to follow, which in essence require us to sacrifice our identity in order to acquire what they define as the acceptable standard/qualifications. Now in trying to meet their standard we end up forever being second to them, even when at the same time we are better than them doing things our style where they become second. This is the reason ours can never be seen as good as them, as we must continue to sacrifice our identity to accommodate their know how.
So I WILL SAY IF A FOREIGNER CAN COME TO LEARN OUR WAYS GO TO OUR FOOTBALL SCHOOL, GET EDUCATED/CERTIFIED IN OUR DEFINED STANDARD AND THEN HAPPEN TO BE BETTER THAN OUR OWN HAVING SAME OR LESSER QUALIFICATIONS IN THE AFRICAN METHOD, THAT FOREIGNER SHOULD 100% get the job of coaching our teams ahead of our own.
So this is nothing to do with racism but every thing to do with promoting our values for others to appreciate. The English FA did it. After the reign of Capello, they decided never to go with foreign managers to manage their national teams. Should we then say they were being racist? WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT NATIONAL TEAMS CARRYS THAT COUNTRY’S IDENTITY HENCE I SUPPORTED THE MOVE MADE BY THE ENGLISH FA N TODAY EVERYONE CAN SEE THE WONDERFUL WORK GARETH SOUTHGATE IS DOING WITH THE 3 LIONS.
In a nut shell, a foreigner that speaks Efik, Yoruba, Ibo, etc better than the tribes man, should get the job of teaching that language.
SO IN THIS CASE, THE LANGUAGE IS THE TRIBES MAN IDENTITY AND THAT HOLDS THE KEY.
RELATING THIS TO OUR FOOTBALL SITUATION PRESENTLY, THE TRIBES MAN IS MADE TO CONSIDER LEARNING A SO CALLED SUPERIOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE, SO HE CAN PROMOTE HIS OWN AS BEST. HOW CAN THAT EVER HAPPEN? MAYBE IF ONLY TO GIVE HIM A FALSE SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT.
@Glory
I do share your sentiments and totally understand your point of view.
I am just stating that we should go for the best man no matter where they are from.
Who says a foreigner can’t play to our style and maintain our identity?
Afterall,we all want positive results.
If we win ,it is Nigeria who wins not the coach.
Afterall,the victories of westerhof and Bonfrere at 96 is still recorded as Nigeria victories. The spotlight always falls on the country no matter the coach..
If the best is Nigerian, good. We should go for it.
My worry is just that past precedence has shown how corrupt Nigerians could be at the end. They tend to derail every success they have made.
I still stand on going for the best man no matter the country they are from.
@Glory, while I understand your point on so many levels, you are missing some key pieces to your argument. First of all, following your white man logic. Football is actually a white man’s game and was introduced by the British to Africa, who else will better set the standards rather than a white man (Fact 1). Another perspective you failed to realize is that England (as your example), even before the hiring of Fabio Capello had been making efforts to influence their ex players to pick up coaching badges, this is even more confirmed from the first team Sir Alex Ferguson assembled for Man United – 3 or 4 players from that team are now coaches today. In our case, we make a lot of noise about giving ex-internationals opportunity to coach Super Eagles or locals to coach Super Eagles, when have you ever heard of attempts by the Nigerian FA to get ex – internationals to apply to get UEFA Pro license before they retire as players. As long as our Sports Ministry and NFF is filled with rascals, looters and the people who have their own interest at heart, we can never have a developmental plan to move our football. This same Segun Odegbami that is writing up and down the media, he is only after his pocket at the end of the day. Truth is the detractors of Nigeria always come out saying we should promote our own, leave the white man philosophy, this and that. Just give them an opportunity to head a task or team to accomplish one goal, they will gather their tribesmen and leave others out. Who is fooling who here.
To be clear, let me give you an example among us. If per chance Omo9ja or Larry or JimmyBall is giving an opportunity to lead Super Eagles, do you think in all the goodness of your heart that they would do it fair and square. They say what is deep in a man’s heart is what he speaks. That’s the same for Segun Odegbami.
Glory, I think I side with Mr. Hush on this one.
It’s not practical or beneficial to base hiring decisions of any kind on race.
For instance, is it a good idea to completely stop using oyibo science and technology, because we want to sink and swim with our own scientists?
To stop using airplanes, cars, roads, construction methods, medical care, the internet, computers, because these are all oyibo developed, would send us back to the stone age. Even the cave men will have a higher quality of life than us, hehehehe!
When it comes to hiring, the conditions that must be met are as follows:
1) The applicant must he competent enough to handle the demands of the job, and excel doing it.
2) We should be able to afford to compensate the person.
Once these 2 conditiond align, we should consider that individual’s application, irrespective of race.
If a Nigerian is equally skilled as the foreign applicant, then under normal circumstances, the Nigerian has the edge. But our circumstances are not normal.
We need a foreigner to come in so we buy the time to fix our original problem, the NFF. Hiring a Nigerian now means continuing with the status quo, because the Nigerian coach will immediately come under intense pressure from this corrupt, inept NFF, and will inevitably begin his own journey to failure.
Let’s hire the best man for the job. Where they come from doesn’t matter.
@ Pompeii, what you are saying is like, we should stop eating/enjoying our own food such as ewedu n gbegiri, asolo, nkwonbi, ayomashe, epuru, edikangko/ahkpu etc n go for Western food simply because they their knowledge of science helped them to produce blender, gas cooker, pounded yam making machine or that they use more sophisticated equipment in preparing their food. Lolzz… I just hope I got you wrong
Hahahaha Glory, if you say I should stop eating Nigerian food, me and you go wear one trouser oooo! E go be fight to finish. Me I mus wack Naija food regularly!
Using your food analogy though, sometimes I feel like eating pounded yam and egusi. Other times, I feel like eating oyibo food. I should be able to eat whatever I desire, as long as:
1) The food is of a high quality, and
2) I can afford it. Very important. If my hand no reach, I go jejely commot my eye. Make I no owe like NFF Onigbese!
I will not completely rule out oyibo food from my diet simply because I want to encourage Nigerian cuisine. That is not practical. It’s not SLAVE MENTALITY to desire oyibo food. And eating oyibo food does not mean I’m betraying or selling out Nigeria.
Same logic applies to hiring a coach.
By the way, Glory, we have been eating our food long before oyibo came to Nigeria.
We were eating pounded yam before oyibo invented their machine. We were cooking before oyibo brought gas. So that illustration does not apply in this case.
Imagine someone saying we should stop suing internet because na oyibo get am. We should wait for Nigerians to develop our own internet, and sink or swim with them.
No be die be dat? Hehehehe! The better idea is for our brilliant Nigerian scientists to go and learn from oyibo, so they can come here and develop our own.
This is what Japan did in the global auto industry. They did not stop driving cars from western nations cold turkey. They sent their guys out there to learn the business. Then these guys came back home and applied what they learned, and today, Japan is a global giant in the auto market.
This is what we need to do. Hire a good coach, and have our Nigeria guys understudy the coach. Then we can appoint capable Nigerians in the future to handle our national teams.
We do have guys like Mike Emenalo and Ndubuisi Egbo that can do the job now. But this current corrupt NFF will not allow them to function. So we need a foreigner in there doing the work, while we work towards replacing this NFF with a better, mpre competent NFF in the future via elections.
Sorry @Pompeii, I keep seeing this mistake here. Michael Wmenalo has only been in charge of player recruitment at Chelsea FC, Monaco and somewhere else now. He has never managed any of those teams from a game perspective. Only player recruitment. This does not make him a coach for Super Eagles, rather a consultant to the Super Eagles coach for scouting players at any level for our National teams
Ben, Emenalo was awarded his UEFA pro license in 2017. So although his role at Chelsea was limited to player scouting and transfer dealing, he is qualified to coach if he wishes to.
By now, we should know where we stand with Dumbo Roar. I hope Picnic is not trying to fool Nigerians with his delay tactics. CSN can do a better job by getting an interview with Picnic to know what his next move is.
Honestly, Nigerians are one of the most talented in the world. However, for the talents to evolved into monumental gains, a well detailed and formidable structure has to be in place. Of course,due to negligence on the part of Governments and sports administrators,we have found ourselves in this shameful situation.
Its been over 35 years, since Nigeria took the world by storm, defeating top countries to win the U-16 W-cup, but our human and infrastructural development has failed to surpass age group level.
Although the leaders and administrators share most of the blames, our ex-sport men can not be exonerated from this human inflicted crisis.
It raises so many questions about how some of our top ex-footballers have failed to explore the numerous options availed to them by their European clubsides to develop themselves into an expert in different sports or soccer roles/department.
A case study is the Italian coaches; majority of their top coaches are ex-footballers…
In most cases,majority of our top ex-footballers have lost the self-esteem and pride that took them to the pinnacle of soccer dynasties. Instead of upgrading themselves by attending training courses and badging required certificates that will grant them access to top clubsides in Europe, they are busy running from walls to walls in Abuja begging for contracts.
Even when they have the neccessary certificates, you hardly see them lead or be part of teams outside or within Nigeria..
Many of our coaches that have won or reached the final of age-group W-Cup, are not able to make significant progress because they refuse to work harder and upgrade..
If what I have been told about improvement in coaches and players management by some clubsides in Nigeria, there is nothing wrong with having our ex-footballers who are interested in coaching lead NPL clubsides. Amuneke, Oliseh, Nwosu. Ugbade, Lawal,, Ike, Rufai and others should join current crusade led by Finito.
Significant value propositions will be added to our league. More money will flow into the league because these are renowned stars whose names will attract local and foreign investors.
Among our ex-footballers, oliseh, is probably the only one that has had the benefit of leading an European clubsides. He did creditably well by transforming a relegation club into a top team in Europe.
Among our ex-footballers, it appears that Finidi is the only coach that is leading a clubside in top division. Within the short period at the helms of affairs, he has done creditably well.
I have my concens about local coaches but if we have to employ a Nigerian to lead SE, the coach must not have been out of job for more than a year..
I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT FINIDI IS A TOP LICENSED COACH THAT IS ADEQUATELY TRAINED, WELL CULTURED AND DISCIPLINE TO LEAD THE SUPER EAGLES. THE FACT THAT HE DECIDE TO JOIN ENYIMBA AND BE PART OF OUR LEAGUE, PLACES HIM ABOVE OTHERS.
FINIDI (LEAD),MANU (ASSIST) EGBO (ASSIST), OLOFIN (TECHNICAL ADVISER) RUFAI AND CARL (TRAINERS).
For the first time in a long time, you have spoken the truth Larry. But let’s not forget that the development of our local league first lies in the clubsises administration, State governments need to hands off the financing of football teams and sell them off to private financiers – examples of this are the purchase of Chelsea FC from a British owner by the Russian Abramovich. Recently, Newcastle FC has seen the same light. When this simple step is done, then there will be improvement in playing surfaces and stadiums, then our local sports policies and refereeing will change, then better equipped people will fill the NFF and Sports Ministry. This is the same type of revolution you see today in the Nigerian Fintech industry that CBN cannot grapple.
@Ben, I have always tried to balance my comments from different angles,deciphering them depends on the angular position and the mindset of the reader..
Some of the clubsides in Nigeria seem to have upgraded their management to professional level e.g. Enyimba, Kano Pillars, Plateau Utd, Rivers, Akwa, Remo, Rangers, Sunshine, etc.
I still believe these ex-stars can be well assessed coaching outside or within Nigeria.
The engagement of these renowned ex-footballers might create the much needed impressions from fans and Governments at all level. This will have significant effects on the finances, infrastructures, sponsorship and quality of players.
@Larry, most of those Nigerian clubsises you mentioned are still bankrolled by their state government. Felix Anyasi who runs Enyimba still collects some support money from the Governor of his State. They should all be privatized either through a foreign IPO or sold off to an international owner. Not Nigerians. That is where I feel NFF is lacking to provide direction. Manchester United isvquoted on the London Stock Exchange, Barcelona, Real Madrid and A.C. Milan too on the European stock exchange.
Our mumu situation will escalate if we fail to hire the best coach our money can buy.
That is the biggest mumu-ism. To refuse to purchase superior merchandise because it is not home-made is a worse kind of mumu. That is escalated, aggravated mumu-ism.
What the coach can do, and how affordable he is, is what matters, not where he comes from.
@ Pompeii the Nigeria situation presently, will completely reduce what we can afford for a top boss, to only be good for our local coaches. No QUALITY FOREIGN COACHE WILL SURVIVE NIGERIA. ROHR WHO DID VERY WELL FROM THE START GOT BEATEN BY NIGERIAN MOSQUITO N HAS CAUGHT NIGERIAN FEVER.
@Mr Hush ; Reference to your remarks regards your reservations for Local coaches and that Rohr’s technical ineptitude this days and his shocking selection and call up invitation this days.
Please, note that Rohr’s technical deficiencies have always been there , hence his employer had recommended him to undergo immediate refresher training which dumbo Rohr has not gone till date because he himself is not ambitious and his business partner NFF never cares , only after their pockets )
For the shocking selection and call up invitations; that is to tell you Rohr or white coach are also human after all, when a coach is not paid for months , it is either such a coach is principled and resigned honourably as Oliseh, or continue on the job relying on the players that pay their ways , after all they have bills and family to take care back home. Give our good local coaches same good condition of services as given Rohr with steady salary , the locals will deliver, but Amaju fraud-Pinnick will never allowed in their evil conspiracy for corruption
@Pompeil; If you still want foreign coach ; it means our mumu never do , not with this corrupt Amaju fraud-Pinnick ; give them 100 times opportunity to bring coach , they will still ended up with dumbo like Rohr coach who can compromised with their salary entitlement.
NFF lead corrupt can never higher world class coach and no good coach will even accept to work for football administrators that have record as owing his coach as much as 8 months salary .
If we cannot higher a world class, then why not stick with our own with a steady salary we can afford , rather than going for a mediocre in the mould of dumbo Rohr .
If a local coach with lesser incentives and backlog of unpaid salaries can win Afcon out of 3 Afcon cups ; common sense should tell us that, if we invest on our own and give them chance , they are capable to surpass achievements of the foreigners .
Advocating for further foreign coach is simply allowing corrupt Amaju fraud-Pinnick to continue their usual business
@ De Star
Why is it so difficult for you all to understand that NO descent coach wants to coach Nigeria? You need to realize that Nigeria has lost any and all respect it has out there. Nigeria NEVER honors its contracts, the govt always constantly interferes in the NFF affairs (instead of providing a conducive atmosphere for the team to thrive) and they NEVER pay on time. Which decent coach wants anything to do with that?
Even the best local coach out there (Sunday Oliseh) was pretty much run out of town. All you people talking about Amunike – he cannot do jack. You forget that he was FIRED from Tanzania, who actually did better when he left. He will NEVER be given the autonomy he needs to succeed, so you are ALL deceiving yourselves if you think he will be successful. Same thing that happened to all the young Nigerian coaches before him, from Equavoen to Siasia and Oliseh will happen to him.
Nigerians should continue deceiving yourselves.
Rohr managed SE for more than five years with tag that he paraded ” young team” this is unbelievable
When would he parade matured team in SE? Probably after ten years in charge. Nonsense. Actually I wholeheartedly supported Rohr before but the tide is changed now due to SE lackadaisical in recent outings. NFF must brace up to the challenges because of current shortcomings as regards bonuses and intervening in Team selections.
Well said @Afuye.
_ Is Foreign Coach a Mumu Move? _
Segun Odegbami might not be a huge fan of beleaguered coach Gernot Rohr, that however does not deflect from the accuracy of some of his assessments about the German tactician’s reign as Super Eagles coach.
“His (Rohr’s) scorecard as a coach during this period may be flattering, but the reality is that he did not do what other coaches before him (foreign and Nigerian) could not do, or achieve what they could not achieve.” Segun Odegbami.
Fact!
In 5 years, Gernot Rohr could not propel the Super Eagles to far greater heights despite having the resources at his disposal to do so. Nigeria could not break new grounds and the Super Eagles could never re-discover a mantle of invisibility in the continent.
In fact, during his reign, smaller teams like Central Africa Republic, Madagascar and Liberia had greater swagger and confidence of getting a favourable result against Nigeria and some of them actually did.
But these results were often inconsequential as they never derailed Nigeria’s efforts of doing well in the respective qualifying or tournament groups – something Rohr and his fans would point at as being the bigger picture.
As we reach the inevitable denouement of the German’s reign, the appointment of a new Super Eagles coach is where I vehemently disagree with Hon. Odegbami.
I believe that such a sensitive appointment should be thrown open to the widest pool of applicants at home and abroad.
Indigenous and foreign coaches should be allowed to apply with the best candidate appointed in a manner devoid of myopic nationalistic sentiments.
Why do you walk into a multinational company in the USA, UK and Canada – for example – only to find Nigerians and other foreigners holding very senior positions?
The answer is simple.
The best candidate with the perfect package of potentials doesn’t have to be homegrown. The best combination of skills, attributes, personality traits, umph, drive, enablement, organisation, creativity, vision, passion and hunger might just rest in a foreign candidate based on how they perform in the recruitment process.
Hiring a foreign coach for the Super Eagles is not a ‘mumu move’ as Odegbami would have us believe. Rather, it would prove that the recruitment process to hire the next manager for the Super Eagles was robust and that the NFF is expensive in its reasoning (if the foreign coach performed better than other candidates in the recruitment process).
In Europe and North Africa, we see many Nigerian ex-internationals and coaches working in various capacities in management teams: Amuneke works in Misr Lel Makkasa SC, Emenalo worked at Chelsea, Egbo worked in Tirana, and Finidi George worked as a Director of International Football at Real Betis – these 4 Nigerians performed these roles in Egypt, England, Albania and Spain respectively. And there are many others.
Are we saying that there are no white Europeans worthy of occupying these posts held by Nigerians? No. The Europeans and North Africans realise that talents abound beyond national borders and that the best candidates for the job (at a point in time) might not always be indigenous ones.
It is funny how Nigerians based abroad (doing jobs that could be done by Europeans) are at times the most uninhibited in requesting an indigenous coach for Nigeria’s Super Eagles.
Rohr – for example – did what many indigenous coaches failed to do immediately before his appointment: he elevated the Super Eagles back to her traditional positioning and brought much needed stability to the national team at a time of tumult, chaos and chronic underachievement.
Rohr’s failing is quite simple, he hasn’t got enough in his coaching repertoire to take Nigeria to uncharted territory, which is what Odegbami alluded to.
Even if he (Rohr) does have the potential to break new grounds for the Super Eagles, we will now never know as his sacking seems inevitable. Most critics will argue that the signs of Rohr doing the extraordinary aren’t visible based on the quality of recent performances.
If Rohr could have come to steady what was a sinking ship back in 2016, who is to say another foreign coach cannot come in to build upon his accomplishments.
And if it is a local coach, so be it, so long as the recruitment net is spread beyond the national boundary and needless blinkered nationalism is dispensed with. This way, I think the NFF has a far better chance to sieve through the widest possible pool of quality candidates.
From this, they can pick the best and have the best chance of building on and improve upon the commendable work done by Gernot Rohr to this point.
What a beautiful piece. The Mathematical Odegbami never disappoints. I always look forward to his views on our football both the technical and political aspects. But I will like to disagree on Nigeria hiring a local coach, No sir! We don’t need a local coach, neither do we need a foreign coach. What Nigeria needs now is a very good coach. Let’s do away with segregation and discrimination when it comes to hiring a coach for Super Eagles. Let’s throw it open to all coaches and put them all in same basket to compete. I guess we already no what the outcome would be, reason we don’t do it that way.
Concerning Rohr’s contract, I guess it was put up for someone somewhere to “cash out”. Who signs such contract in this age and time? But if we can cast our minds back to how Rohr came to be, we would understand where the awuruju came from, particularly knowing that NFF got a sponsor for Rohr’s salary payment.
One more thing, comparing football to other fields may not be appropriate. That medical doctors seek greener pastures elsewhere leading to brain-drain in Nigeria doesn’t mean all coaches in Nigeria are technically gifted. If that be the case, nothing stop them from going to Europe to seek greener pastures as coach in foreign clubs. How many African coaches do we have managing first or second division clubs in Europe? Truth be told sir, our local coaches are not that good to coach Super Eagles. Even the 1990 set of players got their ideology from a foreign coach, Westerhof. That Rohr failed doesn’t mean foreign coaches are not good. We hired bad foreign coaches and the best amongst our local coaches didn’t do better too.
Well said. Nigeria needs a good coach now.
Amuneke is the best man for the job.
@BenaKay ; I am not oblivious that there is no quality coach that will accept to coach Nigerian SE team , with a corrupt NFF that has record of owing coaches backlog of unpaid salaries ( that I agreed with you)
@Deo and @ Ayuba Olayiwola; It is good that both of you agreed with Chief Segun Odegbami that SE job is bigger than the clueless Rohr with no achievements despite being the longest ever serving SE coach of 6 years running.
Where I disagree with your view on making the post open to both foreign & local coaches, and where I am in support of Segun Odegbami MON that we should micro zones it to the best of our local coaches :
1. Throwing the SE open to both foreign and local coaches , with the current corrupt Amaju Fraud-Pinnick lead NFF is another opportunity to bring another unmerited mechanic like Rohr who NFF can have a deal of sharing formula with , because I am 100 sure that , Amaju fraud-Pinnick will not think twice before employing another scam ( I would rather allowed Rohr to continue to fool us pretending to coach , than having another dumbo coach to become another longest serving coach as Rohr );
2. Out of 4 leading seeded team in FIFA ranking , ahead of our so called foreign coach Rohr , 3 of them ( Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria) all decided to swim or sink with their local coaches ; If our local coaches could win one Afcon out of 3 Afcon, even with unpaid salaries as against those 2 foreign coaches that won Afcon in the past ;
a sane country should know , it would be better to invest in our locals rather than continue to waste money on mediocre foreign coaches ( either we like it or not , Rohr fooled 200 million Nigerians for 6 years running, at the end of the day , he would still collect his remaining awuf plus severance package) , so who is the looser other than Nigerian Nation ?
3. A corrupt Amaju Fraud-Pinnick that signed that $2 fraudulent severance package with Rohr, when they were neither under spell or on gun point , where Dumbo clueless now hold the entire 200 million Nigerians to ransom and refused to resign even when , his business partner NFF asked him to do so ; what give you assurance that the corrupt Amaju Fraud-Pinnick wouldn’t have signed higher outrageous contract with another mechanic coach as Rohr even up to $1b severance d package ?
Are you going to remove the current corrupt NFF leadership to guarantee of giving us good coach , and who is that world class coach would accept NFF’s offer , particularly their 50/50 coded formulae as once revealed by Ex England Coach Errikson ?
My brothers , I am in support of our local coaches, let us swim & sink with them ; Egbo , Amunike , Manu Garba Finidi ( If Eyimba can release him) Cal Ikpeme, Rufai etc , and then makes their salaries independent of the corrupt NFF by facilitating coporate sponsorship of direct salaries payments ( only then Amaju Fraud-Pinnick would not have opportunity to frustrate them as Oliseh was wickedly exposed unpaid for 6 good months on the start of his SE Job , unlike Dumbo Rohr that had 4 solid years uninterrupted salary payment until after )
Wow. @De Star, you deserve some accolades kę.
I took my time to read this comment from a-z. Kai, you won my heart I must say it.
Please, I need more of it so that we can use the comments to reset our oppressors brain.
You said nothing but the truth.
Amaju that wanted to send a foreign coach to a refresher course while we have abundant young talented coaches that this Amaju/NFF can spend the money on?
This is why I said slave mentality is the main problem of Africa.
We don’t believe in our abilities and we don’t believe that outsiders can not understand the way we are feeling or the way the things have to be done properly in Africa/Nigeria.
Am I communicating? If so.
The white people still working hard to provide solutions to Covid-19 pandemic while Africa still do not have nothing to offer.
God gave us so many natural things to make our lives much easier Africa/Nigeria but our leaders are selfish and wicked and the citizens also making things worst.
I am in support of Mr. Dare. I have said it before now that we have to go local.
This is the best time to test our local coaches/ex players to see how far they have improved and if they fail at the next Afcon and world cup qualifiers then, NFF should look for a decent young foreign coach.
As I said before, it is better to waste the Afcon ticket with Amunike, Egbo, Marnu Gerba, Finidi, Peter Rufai and Ikeme to Oga Rohr, Agu and the rest.
Finidi George may not be available due to the fact that, Eyimba might not release him but we have capable replacements for him.
Finally,
Amunike = head coach
Egbo = assistant coach
Marnu Gerba = assistant coach.
Having these three coaches for Super Eagles, the benefits, Nigeria will enjoy three style of play and never say die Nigerian spirit will be restored.
Secondly, these three men will do whatever it takes to win the trophy in Cameroon and qualify Nigeria to the next world cup in Qatar because they want to write their names in gold.
However, this is a rare opportunity for our own to take the world by storm between now and beyond January.
NFF should respect our ex players/local coaches like they are doing for the foriegn coaches.
In the goalkeeping department, we have another three world best.
No1, Peter Rufai.
No2. Enyeama.
N03. Ikeme.
On the list here, we have three former experienced golies whose can relate with our young goalies and bring the best out of them.
In total, we have six world best coaches that are waiting to rebuild Super Eagles that Oga Rohr has failed to build almost six years in less than a month.
Shall we give them a try? Hmmm. It’s left to us/NFF.
Many people will be wondering if it is possible to build a team in less than a month for a tournament.
Yes it is possible if we have the right people in charge of NFF.
Remember, impossible is nothing if you have God and the right people with you.
Our players are professionals and all the new coaches have to do is to letting the players know the pattern they have to adapt to as a team.
Lastly, team management. This is where our ex players and local coaches are getting it all wrong.
Ego is part of our daily activities in this country but I am very delighted that all the new coaches are exposed enough to manage our darling Super Eagles.
If Keshi was able to manage Super Eagles and won Afcon trophy for Nigeria in less than four years, nothing can stop Amunike and co to repeat the same.
I am pretty sure that Amunike is a wise, smart and friendly man likewise Egbo and the rest. So no cause for alarm. They are ready to get the job done if NFF can support them. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
@Omo9ja ; thank you for your appreciation.
The fact is Amaju Fraud-Pinnick would rather killed SE , kill local coaches because of their inordinate ambitions of corruption.
Many times , one would be forced to ask if Amaju Fraud-Pinnick makes use of his brain at all , or God is only exposing him and his fraud team ; otherwise;
1. How could any sane human being , hadn’t been we did not voiced out then , have wanted to waste tax payers money on retraining a mediocre foreign coach , having been embarrassed by Algeria local coach Belmadi at Afcon, with completely overwhelmed and bundled out of WC first round? ( a sane organization with sane patriotic officials would have instead made their locals be a beneficiary) ;
2. How could black , Nigerian could that be wicked to their fellow Nigerian , engaged Oliseh with a death trap of exposing him to be paying his local assistants employed by NFF itself, having to be sponsoring the team from his pocket , right from the first month on the job until after 6 months Oliseh spoke with his leg with his image intact , otherwise, he could have ended up embarrassing himself by calling some players into the team that can pay their way, as the poor Mechanic Rohr has to descended into.
Wicked Amaju Fraud Pinnck that cannot pay single one month to Oliseh and other local assistants, but suddenly have more than enough money not only to pay dumbo Rohr steadily for 4 years but also has Rohr’s salary increased
SE problem goes beyond clueless Rohr only , but also corrupt corrupt Amaju lead NFF . If Amaju Fraud-Pinnick is still leading NFF, I am sure , he will ended up destroying SE beyond redemption
You are indeed “De star”. I agree with you .
NFF president deserves this fanterbulous prize “Amaju Fraud-Pinnick” this is why he brought back Salisu Yusuf so that they can continue their atrocities.
Don’t be surprised if he replaced Oga Rohr with Oga Salisu Yusuf.
He, Amaju and his company are trying to cover up their dirty work at all cost
and this is why Amaju/NFF are trying to hire another foreign coach because hiring a new foriegn coach will not exposing them like ours and it may be difficult to hire Amunike and co because Amunike and others knows how to handle the NFF because they are not new to the system.
At this point, we should thank God that the sports minister and NFF are not going to the same direction.
NFF wants a foriegn coach while the sports minister wants to go local.
This is quite interesting and let’s see who will win the battle among both parties. We put them there to serve us and if they can not fix it, I think they shouldn’t brake it. Nigerians are watching them so closely. Hmmm. God bless Nigeria!!!
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