Why Nigerian Indigenous Coaches Can’t Handle Super Eagles

The clamor for indigenous coaches to take special care of Nigeria’s senior team, known as the Super Eagles, has been around for as long as I can remember. The theme of national pride is always cited as one of the main reasons why exponents of this school of thought continued their agitation.

At one point, I was almost drawn to this school of thought, perhaps in sympathy with the local coaches who have paid their dues when it comes to soccer achievements.

I was almost carried away by our major achievements in the world cup cadet categories, especially in the under 17 category. Nigeria has won that trophy 3 times since the inaugural edition was held in China as early as 1985, when an indigenous coach named Christian Chukwu, himself a former captain of the national senior team, led a group of young people not exposed to the Asian nation of China to put their names in the Guinness Book of World Record as the first country in the world to win this championship and then sponsored by Kodak.

Before leaving the shores of Nigeria, no one gave them the slightest chance of success. When they finally returned home with the trophy, much euphoria received their achievement. And as previously stated, this feat has been repeated two more times after the inaugural edition, ironically on the same continent of Asia. First, it was China in 1985, then Japan in 1993, and the most recent in Korea in 2007.

On these three occasions, our indigenous trainers were at the forefront, first it was President Christian Chukwu, then Fanny Ammun and recently the late Yomi Tella, who died a few weeks after returning from a glorious excursion in Korea.

In 1996, Nigeria accomplished another feat on the field of soccer in distant Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America. There, an underrated Nigerian team led by Dutchman Bonfrere-Jo took the world by storm by winning an Olympic gold medal that has eluded almighty Brazil since it registered its name as the world’s greatest soccer nation, having won all of that. you have to win in football at all levels of the game, except at the Olympics (I’m starting to think they are bungled). Ironically, they were eliminated in the semifinals by Nigeria in an epic match that the sportsbooks had already gifted to the Brazilians. The event that led to the elimination of Brazil from the Atlanta Olympics soccer event is a topic for another day.

However, the problem here is that Nigeria won that soccer gold under the tutelage of a foreign coach, and it is on record that the two times Nigeria won the African Cup of Nations, the first in 1980 was with a Brazilian known as Otto Gloria. The second time was in 1994 in Tunisia under the flamboyant Dutch vocal known as Clement Westerhof, it was this same man who qualified Nigeria for their first senior soccer world cup popularly known as USA 94. It was a double feat for him Dutchman who had won the African Cup of Nations in a big way earlier this year, thus sending a signal to the world about Nigeria’s readiness to take its rightful place on the world soccer field.

Why have foreigners been more successful than indigenous coaches when it comes to the higher level?

I would like to state the reasons in two ways, first the administrative lapses in the Nigerian Football Association. Most of the people involved in day-to-day soccer in Nigeria know next to nothing about the game and its challenges. Therefore, the Nigerian Football Association is politicized and is used primarily as an instrument of political gratification for electoral support. Foreign coaches are successful because they are hired under a well-signed and sealed contract, offered appetizing contracts that help motivate them to do their best.

When it comes to the local coaches, it’s a different game. They are barely given a specific contract and when that happens, a lot of interference from the powers that be in the Ministry of Sports and the soccer government house makes it difficult for indigenous coaches to make decisions. The issue of job security is another determining factor. Coaches are hired and fired at will, most of them are owed salaries for a couple of months, and should never speak about such issues, otherwise it would be considered sabotage and an act of insubordination, as these coaches they are treated as ministry workers.

The issue of respect from the players is another hotbed of fish when it comes to coaching the senior team. Now that I think about it, some of these professional players earn up to £ 80,000 a week at their various European clubs, which, translated into our local currency, equates to millions of naira that could be paid by the two years of coaches’ salary. natives. Now, psychologically, the student here lives more comfortably than the teacher, he has achieved more than the so-called teacher and that is why it is difficult for him to submit to the authority of a man who has never played professional football in his entire life.

Foreign coaches are more respected by both players and administrators and that tends to give them the advantage over their local colleagues.

Until such time as local coaches are treated with much more respect than foreign coaches in terms of pay and hands-free to operate without undue interference, the prospect of an indigenous coach succeeding with the senior soccer team seems challenging. mirage for now and the near future.

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