Samson Siasia has denied applying for the vacant Super Eagles Head Coach job even as he rues his suspension by FIFA, Completesports.com reports.
The former Super Eagles striker told Completesports.com in an exclusive chat that the advertisement of the Super Eagles head coach’s job came too soon as he is still serving FIFA suspension, stressing that if the job was to come after August when his suspension will expire, he would have joined the race.
“I did not apply for Super Eagles coaching job because I know FIFA has yet to lift the suspension on me. I don’t know where those who reported that I applied got their story from. It’s common sense, I cannot be suspended and be applying for a job. I know I would not even be considered for it,” Siasia, a silver medal winning coach with Nigeria’s Olympic team at Beijing Olympics told Completesports.com.
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“The opportunity came too soon because I am still suspended until August 2024. If it had come after August this year, I would have been in contention to lead the Super Eagles. I feel bad, but I cannot help the situation I found myself in. I wish whoever gets the job best of luck.”
Siasia who had two previous stints as Super Eagles’ coach would go on to frown at the idea of hiring a foreign coach for the national team stating that there are many qualified and quality indigenous coaches that are capable of doing a better job.
“We should not waste our time and money hiring a foreign coach when we have qualified Nigerian coaches in diaspora and domestic football scene. The NFF should not make the mistake again as the last two foreign coaches that handled the Super Eagles did not help develop the team,” Siasia advised.
“The NFF should look critically at all the coaches that applied for the job and pick the one with the best results and who could manage the egos of our foreign-based players. Nobody will tell me that Finidi George, Emmanuel Amunike, Salisu Yusuf and others will do better than Peseiro and Rohr” Siasia stated.
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Having seen Nigeria NFF lists of four requirements for Peseiro’s replacement as Super Eagles head coach Published on March 8, 2024, Sia2 is inorder. The question is even that very proud citizens like Olish, Amuneke and cohorts who fall short of the NFF requirements are still labouring and forcing themselves on our darling team. Impossible and unless of course the verified and onigbese called NFF by some dotted segment is going to use wayo wayo to consider those who aren’t meeting the stake.
Trust Nigerian government agencies(NFF inclusive) with corruption and nepotism instead of appointing the most qualifed.
@Shine shina, i tire ooo. This nff must be inside ZOO not to keep to its words. Siasia we are with you till August.
There are 20 clubs in the NPFL and another 20 or more in the lower division. It is a known culture in Nigerian league that there’s always gonna be coaching vacancies at the end of each season.
I hope Mr Siasia wouldn’t make the mistake of sitting idle after his FIFA ban elapses, waiting for the next coach of the SE to be fired b4 we hear of him again.
I don’t know how and where these exes get the impression that the national team job must be the only job they can do.
Keshi was one of their Exes he won it.
After Keshi tell me the coach that has done Nigeria proud despite you being fixated on wasting dollars on below average Physical education teachers who deceive you as foreign coaches.
Pls be wise wettin de Sokoto de Shokoto
What you are looking for outside de inside, stop wasting money on skin color without trophies to show for.
Hahahaha….you too tell us apart from the highly qualified duo of Amodu and Keshi which one of you local guadiolas came anywhere close to where the foreign PE teachers got to with the SE.
In the last decade we missed 3 out of 4 afcons under your local coaches. The white journeymen came in, they not only qualified for 3 strainght AFCONS with games in hand, they also finished on the podium, bar wen another local coach disgraced us in 2022.
The records speak for itself.
I’ll rather spend $1.2m on a foreign PE teacher in 2 years to reach the AFCON podium and pocket $2.5m – $7m, than hire incompetent local guadiolas whose CVs cannot get them jobs elsewhere only to be booted out right at the qualifiers stage.
It’s common sense. But unfortunately, common sense isn’t as common as it sounds.
There are 20 clubs in the NPFL and another 20 or more in the lower division. It is a known culture in Nigerian league that there’s always gonna be coaching vacancies at the end of each season.
I hope Mr Siasia wouldn’t make the mistake of sitting idle after his FIFA ban elapses, waiting for the next coach of the SE to be fired b4 we hear of him again.
I don’t know how and where these exes get the impression that the national team job must be the only job they can do.
A list came out and a suspended coach is right there on the list and people still believe is real? stop being gullible.
If you said we have more than qualified coaches to take the SE job, and you are referring mainly to the ex SE Players, of whom non of them are coaching the local or foreign clubs, most of them are not even working atm, our local clubs are not winning any African club tournaments, so where are all these qualified for the job coming from ? just because a coach won with the U17 boys years ago means he is qualified to take on the senior team ?
Apart from winning with the U17 Boys what other achievement ?.
We all know what KESHI did with TOGO and MALI, he also prove his achievement with these team was not a fluke by winning the AFCON back in 2013. Most of these guys are not even coaching and we are clamouring for a chance for them, obviously we are not ready.
I support you guys Dr drey and Ralph on this. I think these exes ad Dr drey called them are just jokers and not serious. Get a club and prove yourself just like keshi and shaibu amodu.
I want to support this with this analysis:
Onigbinde was active before he took over eagles Job in 1984. He got to the final in 1984.
Shaibu was also active before he took over and qualified us for the world cup in a difficult situation.
Keshi was extra active before he win afcon.
But amuneke oliseh siasia have been
inactive yet some people want them to come and coach eagles.
I think only finidi has the professional right to apply for the job.
Nigeria is broke.
Lets stop this fancy of a foreign coach.
Are you the one that will pay the dollars? Or will he receive our Naira as his salary?
The economy is bad a right thinking person with personnel and resources management skills will do with what we have here.
If you want to give me foreign coach Mourhino is available pls pay for us.
It is only coach of that class you can give us and we will be quiet that he is better than our local coaches.
Where is the $4m Peserio (the PE teacher) won for the NFF at the last AFCON….???
What happened to the $4m Mr Peserio (an ordinary PE teach) won for the NFF at the last AFCON…..??!
Ask your Grandfather.
Hahahaha….of course, I will ask your grandfather who fathered the bastard that brought a glorified lunatic like you into this world
I believe some said you were conceived through prostitution. Obviously that forumite was right
Some people are ust crazy and deluded here on this forum, you all come here and spill garbage. How many ex-players are forcing themselves to coach the national team. It is the media creating all this nonsense confusion, all because they want to sell a story. Am happy Siasia came out to rubbish their write up. Even oliseh said he isn’t interested in the job except if they require his services. So don’t know where you morons are getting it that the ex-players are begging for the coaching job. Please if you have the list let us see it.
So @shine shine and Ralph, kindly come out with the list of those ex-players that are begging to coach the national team, One of you said they not even working, do you know what their daily live is all about. You very well know why the NFF will not look for a local coach, so don’t come here and be pretending. Even peserio was tired of giving out part of his salary to them, which the ex-players will never support.
I will never stop blaming AJĘWOMASAN the debtor NFF, because they have eyes but don’t see everything concerning our sports. So, we need government intervention to put an end to this NFF if Nigeria football and other sports must be running properly managed in Nigeria.
I have said it that if NFF were sincere with themselves, how could they hire two incompetent foreign coaches in Oga Rohr and coach Paseiro? I am so glad that Sia1 mentioned that in this interview.
“We should not waste our time and money hiring a foreign coach when we have qualified Nigerian coaches in diaspora and domestic football scene. The NFF should not make the mistake again as the last two foreign coaches that handled the Super Eagles did not help develop the team,” Siasia advised.
If I were NFF, I don’t think I would have hired both coach Paseiro and Oga Rohr.
For now, we don’t need a foreign coach. NFF have to put their house in order.
If they believe Amunike is not good enough, we have Egbo. I am not in support of Finidi George because he was there with Oga Paseiro doing nothing to help the gaffer at Afcon final but after that tournament, he came out saying they would change the tactics after scoring a goal.
Although, NFF is not transparent and can never be transparent when it comes to hiring a coach. They will prefer half done foriegn coach that use our players to gain international recognition just like coach Paseiro and Oga Rohr did.
I said this before, and I’m repeating it today that our local and ex players have never been given a chance like foriegn coach in the Super Eagles. This is why our looks like journeymen when applying for Super Eagles job.
Last but not least, NFF AJĘWOMASAN the debtor should give our own at least two years contract with free hand to do their job. But can NFF do that?
We have better local coaches at home here in Nigeria and Nigerian professional coaches abroad that NFF can choose from but NFF loves money they won’t do that because they preferred where they can generate money from rather than doing the right thing that Nigeria can benefit from.
We should count ourselves lucky if we make it to the Afcon and World Cup the way NFF is doing.
Sunday Oliseh should not be considered because of his attitude. I love him as a player during his days but not as Super Eagles.
I don’t see qualities of leadership in Finidi George. A coach that was dragging a jersey with Moses Simon when Nigeria played against Portugal? Our ego players won’t respect such a coach.
Amunike, on the other hand, can do the job if given a chance. If the wisdom man could qualify a Tanzanian team Afcon when Tanzania had no quality players like Nigeria and still Amunike tried his best to show his capability and superiority in that regard when coach like Oga Rohr hasn’t proven me wrong with his Benin team yet. I think Amunike deserves some respect from us all.
Amunike should be among the favorites to lead the team. I would prefer Amunike and Egbo to be in charge of the Super Eagles instead of a foreign coach.
I won’t be surprised if I see Eguavoen again as the new coach of the Super Eagles. Fingers crossed. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Anoda long epistle of crap 4rm Mr ire o
Anyone in the glass house, especially the members of the NFF Technical committee who says no indigenous coach can handle the super eagles as presently constituted gas a lot of explanation to do.How on earth do u explain this riddle that an organization who is broke and constantly know for owing coaches still wants to enploy a foreigner that they will need to pay in dollars.But for the intervention of the Sports minister and the President JP would have been in his way to fifa to report them again for breach of contract.Ghana just appointed Otto ado as their head coach and here we have technical committee members talking Abt our players being too but for a local coach to manage .May be we shd start considering the option if bringing in foriengners to run our football.If these guys want to continue living a fake life…..then they should be willing to pay for their slavery mentality….
I just read somewhere that about 50 local coaches applied for the SuperEagles coaching job and 40 foreign coaches also applied. Obviously, the SuperEagles is a big brand in not just Africa, but the world at large. 10th most valuable team in the world. Therefore, the interest from the number of foreign coaches that applied is expected.
My only question is that which local coach among the 50 that applied actually merits the post?? Like Dr Drey said is the SuperEagles job the only coaching job around? Apart from Finidi who has been busy with something recently the rest have been idle doing nothing. At least Amokachi did a coaching course recently and was working as a pundit and commentator during the AFCON. They can only be considered for the U23 or CHAN team not the SuperEagles.
Is it the $4m received from CAF for the AFCON success that is Ranmọwọnlojuing? God abeg o! Anyway according to sources the NFF are not entrusting the SuperEagles on another glorified 94 egocentric comrade. They are going for another foreign coach.
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE INTO THE FUTURE.
I’m a strong proponent of a foreign coach for the SEs for obvious reasons. One, a lot of them are given to bribery and favoritism in their selection of national team players. Even the great Stephen Keshi was not immuned from that virus. We heard how players like Chinedu Ogbuke and Martins came out to make claims of how agents of the coach demanded bribes from them in exchange for places in the squad that represented us at Brazi 2014 WC. More appauling is how names like Gabriel Rueben, Ejike Uzoenyi, Azubuike, Egwuekwe, Kunle Odunlami and Micheal Uchebo made the team at the expense of seasoned and experienced players like Ogbuke, Obafemi Martims, Ik Uche and the rest. It was obvious money changed hands for that selection, and we all know the outcome of that corruption in that team.
Salisu’s suspension on curroption charges and his evrntual reappointment by the same Nff who suspended him is still fresh in my mind. Did anyone see the ragtag team he called u23 team who lost the Olympic qualifying match to Guinea? Obviously, money changed hands too during selection of those payers, with some of them not even attached to any club as at then.
Even Emmanuel Amuneke that many of us are clamoring for is a known football agent. We all know how he came to blows with Kelechi Iheanacho’s agent because of disagreement on the issue of the player’s rights abs sale in an hotel in Owerri.
Finidi that is saddled with the task of preparing the team for just two friendly matches added from nowhere one Benjamin Taminumu who plays in Tamzania to the list of players who will prosecute the matches against Ghana and Mali. Who that player is nobody knows. I can go on and on.
It’s not a conincidence that cases of inducement are so rare during the tenures of Rohr and Peseiro. These personalities who care do much about their name, their reputation and career. Such don’t matter at all to most Nigerian coaches as long as money us involved. It was obvious that these foreign guys were fully in charge of their respective teams, and it was hard seeing a strange name dropping on the list from the blues.
On team management, a lot of these ex players are so so poor handling our super stars. Siasia had issues with Enyeama and Obi. Olise had problems with Enyeama and Emenike. Keshi had issues with Odemwigie at a point while in charge of the team. Can anyone point to me any incidence of such during the time of the last two foreign coaches we had? In fact with many players not getting enough playing time at the last AFCON under Peseiro and the perennial problem of bonus issues, we would have had a lot of disgraceful scenes if the team to CIV had been managed by a local coach. We all remember what happened in 2002 when Yakubu, Babayaro and Agali were sent packing from the AFCON under Amodu for disciplinary issues.
Suoer Eagles job is simply too big for a local coach. It’s as simple as ABC.