Charles Ekanem|31 March 2016|6:06am
I beg to differ from the statement of Mr Solomon Dalung, Honourable Minister of Sport .
NFF Crisis can't be the reason Super eagles lost to Egypt yesterday. The Egypt that won us had their FA board dissolved by Court before the match. Though I joined him in blaming Nigerian Football Federation for the Super Eagle's poor outing in the qualifiers.
First, NFF went to London and appointed Sunday Oliseh without thorough screening and interview to coach Nigeria.
Secondly, NFF is not organized in terms of administration, their personal pocket is more important than football. When you combine football with politics you are bound to fail woefully.
Amaju Pinnick need to rebrand the system, shun politics and focus on rebuilding Super Eagles.
WAY FORWARD:
NFF should stop the act of appointing mediocre to tutor the eagles. After Sunday Oliseh's resignation I expected his assistant to take over and continue with his programs. Bringing in Samson Siasia was not the solution.
NFF should go for a services of foreign tactician to coach the National team. Our local coaches still lack technicality to handle big games.
Samson Siasia failed in that aspect, his greatest problem was selection. He prefer playing name and loyalty to form. For God sake do you know more than Arsene Wenger? Arsenal Coach for the past 3 games can't do without Alex Iwobi, yet you kept him in bench played big name Ahmed Musa in Kaduna. Odion Ighalo could not find the net, yet you had Fernando Adi of MLS league in the bench. You blatantly kept Victor Moses in the bench for nothing.
The returned leg in Cairo you refused learning from your previous mistake. Still went ahead and played big name Musa ahead of Alex Iwobi. I wonder if he didn't realize the bite in Super Eagle attack when Iwobi came in. I doubt if Samson Siasia do watch English Premier League? If he does then he should know that Kelechi Iheanacho is used by Man City as back up striker and most times as central forward. I was shock when Siasia started him as central midfielder.
Super Eagles need a substantial Left back and a right back with a good central defenders.
I recommend Nigerian Government to save our fund by not sponsoring the next game against Tanzania. We should withdraw like Chad.
Charles Ekanem
Writes from Calabar, Nigeria
