NFF explains how new foreign coach work in the Nigerian league

A section of Nigerians are still kicking against the decision of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to appoint a foreign coach for the Super Eagles but the football body has insisted that there is no going back on the plan.

Amaju Pinnick, NFF President

NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, yesterday explained why the glass house took the decision.
Speaking on a radio programme in Abuja, Pinnick said the move was aimed at rescuing Nigerian football, whose standard was on a steady decline.

According to him, the new coach would be a sound player in the football coaching business and would in addition to handling the Super Eagles, work with some experienced Nigerian coaches with the objective of exposing them to new techniques of the beautiful game. He said the new coach would also monitor the Nigerian league and select exceptional players.

The NFF boss said: “We are not going for low quality coach this time around. We are shopping for a sound coach who will present before us a comprehensive programme of how he intends to turn around the Super Eagles as well as the Nigerian league. Our choice of a foreign coach would be one who will be ready to look into the league, travel to Warri to watch Warri Wolves, to Lafia to watch Nasarawa United etc.

“Any experienced foreign coach will certainly value his name more than the money he is to earn. He will invite and pick the best of players and that is what we are going to give Nigerians with the coming of a new foreign coach in our mind”.

“By the time he is through with his assignment a lot of Nigerian coaches would have learnt a lot from him and ready to succeed him".

Yesterday, a top source in the NFF said that former Dutch and Chelsea coach, Ruud Gullit, was on the NFF’s radar.