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Former Nigerian defender, Christian Chukwu has urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to retain the services of Austine Eguavoen as the Super Eagles permanent coach in a bid to maintain continuity.
In a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chukwu, who captained the national team when they were known as the Green Eagles, also lauded Augustine Eguavoen for the team spirit and discipline he built in the players.
“From all we can observe, Austin has handled the national team in the AFCON competition with a high sense of experience and professionalism, which resulted in no complaint from any quarters against him.
“He did great in the competition. He is still outstanding among other African coaches in the ongoing competition.
“Eguavoen has already started working with the Eagles and understands the players to a certain extent and bringing in another coach now will destabilise the team. The new coach will come with his own ideas, which could take the players time to understand.”
Recall that the Super Eagles crashed out of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations after losing 1-0 to Tunisia in the Round of 16 on Sunday, thanks to Youssef Msakni’s second-half goal.
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There is room to learn lessons of which the super eagles should be accustomed with by now. The reason why the rail lines started by the Good luck Jonathan’s administration was a success is because president Buhari continued from where Jonathan stopped. The results are there. Thank you Chairman Chukwu for lending your voice as wait on the NFF to move our football activity forward.
There is room to learn lessons of which the super eagles should be accustomed with by now. The reason why the rail lines started by the Good luck Jonathan’s administration was a success is because president Buhari continued from where Jonathan stopped. The results are there. Thank you Chairman Chukwu for lending your voice as we wait on the NFF to move our football activity forward.
Quite on the mark Bernard. The problem of our country has always been lack of continuity that sees people looking for quick fixes. It doesn’t work that way. Eguavoen will be given say eight years to put a proper and enduring structure in place before he quits. He should be mandated to train others who will take over from him. This is the internationally standard.
8 years you said?
Una don start again hay my god
Nigerians had better be careful.
This place and social media has been clearly been infiltrated by NPFL AGENTS who see Eguaveon as a better chance to get their substandard players into our senior national team.
Rohr perpetually impoverished them while in charge. Reason why he was attacked, sabotaged and chased away -he still thrived & met every target given to him irrespective-
Imagine not selling any NPFL player in 2 Afcons and a world cup. BAD FOR BUSINESS.
These people are so desperate they will readily sacrifice world cup qualification to see business pick up again. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS to them.
They rode on the crest of the unfortunate results we recorded in the tail end of WCQ (We still qualified) to create confusion & instigate Nigerians against the erstwhile coach & team.
Now they have someone who will sacrifice our better players for their’s and you think they won’t come here in droves with multipled IDs to comment support for his stay? LET TRUE SE FANS BE WISE.
Football is about results anywhere in the world. Nigeria never crashes out in round of 16 (afcon). No matter what is the situation, it is unheard of and has never happened. Eguaveon and his assistants has been with this team for over a year. He failed the task given to him. SIMPLE.
A good coach will always get results. Keshi won nations cup first time with Nigeria because he was good, Rohr qualified us for world cup from a very difficult group first time because he was good, Tuchel won UCL with Chelsea few months after being coach because he is good. Eguaveon FAILED and there is no sugar coating it.
We will miss the world cup if this people have their way.
We have a young team with large potentials to grow. This team is no where near it’s peak but it’s clear to everyone that they’ll rule Africa and shake the world when they get there. The world knows this, the rest of Africa knows this (Mane et al).
But leave this team in the hands of an easy to control Eguaveon and we won’t recognize it in a few months.
We will beat Ghana because our team is better than theirs and have our best world cup performance ever.
We only need a strong willed, tactically astute coach who will select the best of our players, encourage them to continually aim to play in the biggest leagues and competitions and we’ll watch this team meet and surpass any previous super eagles set.
I read the comments of so many people here who obviously love our super eagles but are sometimes too emotional, sentimental and BANDWAGONISH.
LET TRUE SE FANS OPEN THEIR EYES AND BE WISE
You are talking Jargons, Rohr that invited Noble, Akpeyi and can’t improve Okoye and Uzoho is the honest man abi? The manner at which you wrote those stuffs make me think you don’t know that we on this page, filter good coaches and put them up for observations. I don’t believe anyone on this page will like Coaches like Aigboun, Ladan Bosso or Salisu that was good not until he went to take bribe for hunger sake. In this page we recognize Brilliant coaches like Manu Garba, Egbo, Amunike, Siasia. Coaches with trophy cabinet and not the garbage you call coach that is working with DW to destroy our football with all their players including average ones. Continue thinking negative.
I know you to be one who reads but has issues with comprehension while still being arrogant and disrespectful.
Like I said up there. This people want to sell their players using SE.
Which is why Rohr was under lots of pressure to inculcate their players into his team but he didn’t bulge.
Ezenwa, Noble were obviously only in his team as peace offering to placate this evil people & their apologist.
Eguaveon was only a few weeks on the saddle and was already talking of taking 7 Npfl players with him if he had more time and I asked myself at whose expense.
Akpeyi has always been one of our best performing goal keepers in a decent club anywhere and so deserves his call ups.
We will enjoy Okoye and Uzoho in years to come. At 22 & 23 years respectively, they are quite young, playing in europe. Okoye will next season be playing in the Epl. They’ll come good.
Yes I don’t comment much but I am an ardent reader of comments here. It’s like a religion to me. So I know you are one of those who go anywhere the wind blows them. No stand. Just led by sentiments and their emotions.
The DW story was just propaganda used by the people who wanted Rohr out to hoodwink people like you into campaigning for his removal.
“I don’t believe anyone on this page will like Coaches like Aigboun, Ladan Bosso or Salisu that was good not until he went to take bribe for hunger sake. In this page we recognize Brilliant coaches like Manu Garba, Egbo, Amunike, Siasia “. This makes no sense and has nothing to do with what I wrote up there.
You’re Pained Dumbass!
Pained at what. Try and coordinate your thoughts before commenting. It will make you less incoherent.
@Chima E Samuels show respect to this intelligent forumite.
He made lots of sense in his submissions which obviously differs from yours but don’t most of us differ?
Instead of replying with a superior argument, you are there insulting him. Pls grow up, man.
The Guy is pained by the sacking of Rohr. I don’t see any sense in what he’s saying if he thinks Eguavoen can be easily manipulated. We always a think everyone is the same as us.
Mr Man you never have anything to say as an intelligent argument. You can’t engage others in meaningful conversation because you do not have the IQ for it. So I totally understand.
@Jason after reading all of your notes right from the former, i say you are one of the wise ones, we don’t even need Akpeyi, please don’t exchange words with i d i o t s, i was barred from this complete sports for stating my candid opinion weeks ago, they don’t like the truth, listen bro, you have said my mind, and i was also flabergastered when Cerezo wanted Npfl players, don’t we learn from the past? Apart from them Amokachis, those lads where really hungry and talented, but now i don’t see anyone getting a shirt, Oliseh gave us Wilfred Ndidi, everyone is yelling double engine. I rest my case here, please don’t answer these guys.
Thank you Presh
The problem we had in cameroon was the absence of our key strikers like Odion, Osimhen and Dennis. Some people think our wingers had their wings clipped by the Tunisians, it’s all wash. Had it been our forwards were prolific, that would’ve taken away pressure from Moses and Chukwuezel. Eguavoen wasn’t going to perform magic by invoking Odion, Osimhen and Dennis to play when their clubs had other motives. Don’t forget he had only few days of training before the matches. He just needs more time that’s the truth unless we are being emotional. Afcon21 is gone and the S.E is moving on.
Friday, you are still calling Dennis and Igahlo,we don’t need them please.
Wo sit down jor, se the NPFl got one Kobo because Noble was at the afcon?
@jason thank you, all the home based club people flooded here, their players aren’t up to standard, for me Cerexo can be the coach, but he should be smart, and don’t let them give him useless players, all those John Nobles should leave Osigwe, and Adeleyes ARE there, with Maduka and Uzoho.
I was just looking at the training video clips of our SE this morning and the question on my mind was, why can’t we continue with these guys? Within only two weeks they were magnificent and massive in training and besides, they already struck a perfect understanding with their managers. Good luck to the crew.
I also Like Eguavoen but he should be aided by Amunike and Manu Garba. I believe this guys will help him in areas of attack because Eguavoen is a defender and can’t factor out Attacking department brilliantly like this other two will. Aigbodun, Yobo and Alloy Agu must be replaced else Nigeria football remains in Average Situation.
@ Bob Martin, just in reference to your comment, someone posted the below link via a forum yesterday. It goes to show it will make more sense for us to continue the ones already training than to disband them and begin to rebuild from the scratch.
https://youtu.be/e5-GtBseMdI?t=17
Eguavoen has my vote. The other man will be a waste of another 4 building years and go without trophy like Rohr. The Jose Morais we wanted was not given a chance you know NFF is good at choosing worst.
Confusion evweywhere. Everywhere scatter scatter! Lol….. This is wat happens when the self destruct button is pressed. Hahaha
Jason, i agree with some of your positions above. Eguavoen is tactically bereaved, and should not be given a second chance. I am not advocating for a foreign coach but our own, whom i think is an upgrade or better than Egu. I am still of the opinion that we use our own in Amuneke or oliseh sunday.
Some of us here will wonder or disagree with me, on the bases of oliseh left the position before, when he was given the team to handlein the past.yes but in- fight from the glass then was much, that he felt being subjected to fail, he could not trust his backroom staff, for the fear that they were being used against him. If he is given same free hand, as given to Egu or rohr,we all will smile with results. Then on amuneke,i loved the way he arranges his team on and off the ball. He is tactical and technical, we all know is previledged to attend the best coaching School, with uefa license grade A certificate.
Come to think of it, FIFA and CAF always involve them in tournament Technical study group. Oliseh U17 world cup 2013, world cup 2014 in brazil etc. both are presently in AFCON cemeroun for same assignment.Do we we think there both are not good.we are not wiser than FIFA.
Sequel to the above reasons, i will advise we appreciate how own, in any of them, and give them good contract and working condition, for they know our players and will be more passionate to succeed as coach of the national team which they gave their al during their playing days and will still give. No time is short for any of them to deliver the world cup ticket to Nigerians, if the condition are okay.My submission
Eric, I am only for the best on merit irrespective of race or colour.
Super eagles is our flagship team, our senior national team and should only be coached by proven coaches. No compromise should be reached for anyone not even ‘our own’.
That is how the organisations rise to be the best in any industry. They employ the best hands they can find anywhere. Colour, tribe, race never crops up.
Now to Amuneke and Oliseh. I agree Amuneke is an upgrade to Eguaveon but he also falls in the category of a coach that will be easily manipulated. Reason is that he does not have the credentials or clout to say no when he is told to compromise with the national team.
Oliseh has maybe a little of the credential, clout and temperament to resist the compromise but he is not a good manager of his players as we have seen in the different jobs he held. Plus, we are all aware of the controversy with his brother’s players. Although, we didn’t have as many good players then as we have today.
Jose Peserio, has better clout and credential in comparison to any other nigerian coach today. Assistant to Mourinho, assistant at real Madrid, Porto coach, sporting Lisbon coach, Al ahly coach.
He’s already poised to take over from Eguaveon. He like Rohr will be hard to manipulate and so we are sure he’ll pick our best players from top clubs every time. That alone is the first step to his success. Ditto Rohr’s playbook for his early success with SE.
@Jason thumbs up you know your onion’s.
Obviously,I do not see anyone indigenous better than Peseiro going by his credentials besides Caucasians are very professional and incorruptible.
Eguavoen is not tactical,modern day football is results-driven, strategies,outcomes and finally achievements.
Meeting objectives requires astuteness in coaching also transparency is fundamental in achieving success going by his comments he regretted not having enough time to add half a dozenish home based players to his squad to Cameroon at the expense of who?He left out in form Dessers for the Afcon and you can see our team was yearning for a prolific goalscorer who misses few..Eguavoen knows best.I don’t trust the super eagles in his care.
However,If there’s any indigenous coach worth consideration,I think Samson Siasia is that coach,then again he has been redundant for a few years now.
Having said that,We are better off with a foreign coach were at least merit is guaranteed.
Meanwhile,Gambian coach Tom Sainfiet during late Keshi’s era as coach of the super eagles indicated interest in coaching the super eagles that which caused a squabble between him and our erstwhile coach Stephen Keshi who called him a “White dude”
Apparently,Tom is a very good coach who never had the chance of working with a big footballing country like Nigeria.I would go for Tom if I were in the helms he’s a bargain and he’s a top-notch.
Thanks @Greenturf
Yes,It’s raw fact that Peserio stands above any Nigerian coach in terms of coaching credentials at the moment.
“Eguavoen is not tactical,modern day football is results-driven, strategies,outcomes and finally achievements.
Meeting objectives requires astuteness in coaching also transparency is fundamental in achieving success going by his comments he regretted not having enough time to add half a dozenish home based players to his squad to Cameroon at the expense of who?”
You couldn’t have said it better sir.
But Nigerians and nepotism are like 5 & 6. Reason why none of it’s sectors is thriving in over 60 years of independence.
I agree with you on Sainfeit. He’s vastly experienced in African football and wouldn’t have been a bad choice. He’s done very well with Gambia. I remember that episode with himself and Keshi too.
Ugandan coach, Milutin Sredojević is also a good coach. He made Uganda a force in Africa some years back. Coached in south Africa, and Egypt.
I am a fan of Siasa but he’s still serving his ban.
I still think Peserio is not a bad one. He still has a better resume than the aforementioned coaches. He’ll succeed if he’s transparent in his player selection. Only the best everytime.
Spot-on @Jason
NFF are making things difficult for themselves. NFF should remove Aigbogun, Salisu Yusuf and Agu out of the coaching crew then, coach Eguavoen should be the head coach. Amunike and Egbo should be coach Eguavoen’s assistants.
Then, with the combinations of old and young goalkeeper trainers. Peter Rufai and Enyeama, Super Eagles will be Super again.
Ighalo Akpeyi and John Noble have no room in that team no more.
Now, Dessers should replace Ighalo. Adeleye, Osagwe and Ajiboye will replace Akpeyi and John Noble. I don’t think NFF are ready yet. They know what to do but they won’t do it. If possible, Eagles should play two friendly matches before Ghana match. Let’s support our own. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
In Amunike or oliseh, i still stand. In addition, Amunike qualified Tanzania to Afcon 2019 after 35 year, proven knowledge of the game oversea.
I don’t support the idea of Amunike assisting Egu, rather it should be the other way round.
Omo 9ja,In Amunike or oliseh, i still stand. In addition, Amunike qualified Tanzania to Afcon 2019 after 35 year, proven knowledge of the game oversea.
I don’t support the idea of Amunike assisting Egu, rather it should be the other way round.
He can continue if he can explain to us the lesson he learnt from this defeat and what to do different next time. He lost to Tunisia with the same game plan he used to beat the Egyptians. Next time bring in a natural left footer, Ejuke, remove iheanacho, let Moses now operate from the middle, he can’t not be stop from the midfield, he’s a better dribbler, more mobile and iheanacho he can track back more than iheanacho. Not because iheanacho is not good, but against Tunisia we need someone like Moses to operate from iheanacho position. Bringing in Iwobi and removing Awoniyi for yinka was not a good game plan Eguaveon. Iwobi has nothing to unlock defense from the midfield.
I agree with you, that will only guarantee that sth useful has been gained for the good of our team.
Eguaveon is one dimensional. He didn’t had a plan B after the Tunisian effective shut down our attacking threat from the wings. A season coach could hv come with a new strategy in the second half and that the reason we lost.
The game of football ends in either winning or losing. It hasn’t anything to do with our national team after all, the reigning champion, Algeria was ousted in the group stage. We equally had Ghana booted out by the debutant fishermen, Comoros – who could’ve seen that coming? Your guess! Many instances to be mentioned. Tunisia weren’t better but it wasn’t just the Super Eagles day. Let’s see how we can harness the process, the time they spent in training and what new things the coaching team are bringing. With preparations, time is of immense important. Domestic coaches whether winning or losing gets the nod that is the more reason why I believe the NFF would negotiate a 6 years contract with Eguavoen and his assistants. God bless Nigeria.
Please please and please, Ikolo, four years contract don do am.
@Friday Ikolo, if the NFF is going to implement the Belgium Blueprint as it is certain to do, then Eguavoen will be needing a minimum of 8 years for a better grassroots outreach and good performance. Though painful, dwelling on what happened or didn’t happen in Cameroon is a way backward as the NFF and the team have moved forward.
@Gabriel,
You are spot on. 8 years will
be ideal but 6 is equally ok since it can further be negotiated.
Friday Ikolo, don’t you think 6 years contract will be fine with him?
https://youtu.be/lJCl6wcTQgI?t=9
@Vincent
On the time factor, my conclusion is based on the fact that Eguavoen would be needed to transverse all the villages in the country to discover hidden talents to be properly trained. This certainly would take years. Take a look at the video clip above, one of the trainings conducted by Eguavoen.
After going through a lot of the comments on here I have come to realize why Nigeria as a nation is where it is today. Is it that hard to understand the simple fact that no Nigerian gaffer can handle the senior national teams. Even countries with better football culture, organization still engage the best to handle their national teams. We need to wake up and stop being deceitful to ourselves ,throw sentiments aside and get the very best to handle our team. The board of the Nff too had failed us woefully but in Nigeria nobody takes responsibility for failure . Melvin Amaju Pinnick needs to resign and let’s allow the right personnel lead the nff .
I still cant understand why some are still talking abt Oliseh handling the SE. Where were you when he coached the team in 2015/16 thereabout. He lacks man management, forced our best players to retire early, talked to players rudely. Imagine he said Ekong was too soft to play for Nigeria, and so on. On Amuneke, well, his greatest achievement is winning the u17, a feat which has become almost normal to Nigeria. Fanny Amun, Femi Tella, Manu Garba, etc., have all won it. fanny Amun’s U17 team produced Kanu, Babayaro, Ojigwe, Odini, Anosike, Oruma 9cant think of any generation of players better than this), yet he did not become the head coach. His team beat Canada and Argentina 8-0 and 4-0 respectively on the way to becoming champions. Amuneke won u17 and so what? What has he achieved since then? I think we should just hire a foreign coach that we can afford jeje. We said it then, that sacking Rohr is not the problem but getting a replacement. It is left with the NFF to take a decision.
most Nigerians think employing a foreign coach now is not ideal at all and there’s no sense in it. Besides being too expensive to manage, where is the time for the foreign coach to start learning the names of our players? Then afterwards he begins to start from the scratch, before all that, the Super Eagles would’ve been worked over by the Black Stars of Ghana. It is quite obvious that everything now favours continuity mostly that the playoff is just around the corner.
He he he @Cissy Caleb. He will first learn how to pronounce Chukwueze for the first 2weeks and then, Nwakali for probably 1week, Taiwo or Taiye Awoniyi should take at least another 2weeks, Omerua, Olisa Ndah and Olayinka could take 3wewks. How many months are we so far? Before he starts interaction which could take 1month. Then he starts training in April. That means the Eagles would have lost the whole of March to familiarization with a foreign coach. It is funny.
The few people still discussing the appointment of a foreign coach are fools. The foreigner will only come to deplete our resources without developing our local league and no history of winning any trophy. Nonsense.
How do you intend that the local coach will develop our league? The moment you learn that National team coaches are not responsible for developing our league is the moment your write up begins to make sense to me
Then Rohr should have been left to carry on till at least after the world cup play-offs before getting sacked.
The big question now is,why the haste to sack Rohr?That was an absurd bizarre decision.
All the chaos we are going through now was as a result of that sack.
Exactly what i was saying here, all of them here wanted Rohr sacked, how do you sack a coach weeks to the nations cup, and year of the world cup, just let him finish win or loose and let him go, all of them here were throwing sticks at the coach the way they all insulting Maduka Okoye, who you will see become one of the best in the world, Nigerians are hypocrites.
@Caleb Cissy, you must be a sense teacher.
@Ebhohimen Jonathan, not only learning how to pronounce Chukwueze, he will also learn how to write it since he is sure to communicate with the lads via email or chat group. Imagine the foreign coach typing Kukuezi, Omilua or Ivoniye instead of Chukwueze, Omerua or Awoniyi. Hmm! Is that not laughter already. But Egu, a local could just type, Chucks Sup, Ome how far? or Awo wetin dey? You people ehn!
Remain small una for don kill a whole race, I dey laugh.
I don’t know why you always talk like this? Rufai and Enyeama as a goalkeeper coach at once, does that makes sense? When you draw almost all the local coaches in Nigeria to coach the team at once, abeg is it same NFF that will pay them? The 9 coaches that took you to AFCON what do they achieved? Just sit down and be deceiving yourself yeye.
Is pinnick still there? this is the reason why the world don’t take us serious sometimes imagine after this disastrous tournament pinnick is shamefully on sit if it were western world by now pinnick should have tender his resignation corrupted nff bringing turning and bringing politicians into our football.
Stop lying, will you??? No one has tendered resignation letter in Algeria all through Ghana to Ivory coast.
The issue here is NFF or what do they call there self, they are all nonsense federation, from this past years now Nigeria football as been rubbish, why we no fit upgrade our football level, we need result
We need a better technical department, better NFF. How can a football country like ours go so low to hire equavoan? I dont care if you back rohr or not, just give us a better person than the previous. Too sad. The boys are good, otherwise they wont be playing regularly in their respective clubs.