Nigeria does not need a foreign Football Coach

Under our foreign football coach

results have not been inspiring and there are moves to sack the Coach. In the world of football, Coaches come and go.

What I find objectionable is the move to appoint another foreign Coach. If a foreign Coach distinguishes himself in Nigeria, coaching a local club or a school, I will have no problem with him being employed to coach our National team.

Until then, our indigenous Coaches should be given a chance. Good enough we have distinguished ex Internationals who have gone into coaching but that in itself is not enough criterion or a desiderata for consideration.

An indigenous coach should be employed as part of our national development.

Over time, our local coaches have proved their mettle. The missing link has always been administration, jealousy and corruption.

I do not understand why a foreign Coach will be given a better working tool than the Nigerian coach and yet we expect the same results.

Our administration is archaic and need improvement. That our administration is archaic is because our politics is backward.

Football is so important that it cannot be divorced from our politics. The problems of our football are traceable to our politics.

Bolaji Abdullahi as a Sports Minister was doing very well but the moment his sponsor fell out with his party, off went Bolaji Abdullahi.

What can save our football is to separate it from Government and make it an independent socially responsible entity insulated from the vagaries of party politics.

Once this is done the right coaches will be employed whether foreign or local. What we have now is a conscious effort to employ either a local coach or a foreign Coach.

When our football becomes weaned from.party politics, then the right coaches will be employed under similar terms and conditions and not peanuts for the local coach and bags of money for the foreign Coach.