Former Super Eagles head coach, Sunday Oliseh says he could still manage the team in future, but only if the conditions are right.
Oliseh’s eight- month reign in charge of the Super Eagles between 2015- 16 ended in controversial circumstances.
The 48-year-old endured a frosty relationship with former Super Eagles captain, Vincent Enyeama which led to the latter retiring from the national team.
Another influential player, Emmanuel Emenike also quit international football during Oliseh’s short reign.
The former Ajax and Juventus player also had a sour relationship with his employees, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) by the time he quit the post.
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The 1994 Africa Cup of Nations winner cited contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages and benefits to his players as reasons for resigning from his job.
“My priority is to get Nigeria back to the top,” Oliseh said during an interview with Channels TV.
” I will do it (handle the Super Eagles) if the person employing have the interest of Nigeria at heart.'”
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Oliseh was recently appointed as a member of the technical study group for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
He represented Nigeria 54 times and scored two goals.
By Adeboye Amosu
33 Comments
Funny dude..no be only coach
You said it all. Oliver is a failure in coaching and not even ready to learn.
Clueless dude like Amaju overated him and that got to his and make him think that he us Joseph Mourihno of Anioma
There will never be the right conditions, just have a goal and seek for out to make it a reality.
What is your current status?
Unemployed?
Unemployable?
Employed?
Oliseh, the earlier you abandon your infatuation with coaching the SE, the better. Don’t you have conscience? So with all the trauma, you inflicted on the SE you’re still nursing the ambition of coming back to the job? Are you not ashamed? Are you the only qualified Nigerian coach? Is SE your family business? After serially failing with clubs overseas you think the SE is the hiding place?
Better wake up from your sleep if you are dreaming.
Wake up from your sleep dreamer
He basically means if the conditions are right for him to collect bribe and include players he have interest in.
Hahaha, Oliseh, my Anioma brother, no burst out belle with laugh abeg. How many Nigerians work on places “where the conditions are right,” “perfect,” or the employer “has the interest of the country at heart”?
Are you talking about Eldorado? The issue is not really your employer. Most Nigerians agree NFF bigwigs are a selfish and greedy gang (to some extent). They aren’t saints, but they aren’t devil incarnates either. Many people have worked with them before you and many have after you – and with little or no controversies, including white dudes who are even used to proper systems prior.
Baba, the issue is you lack Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Your football Intelligence Quotient (IQ) might be good, but without a good measure of EQ, chief, you won’t go far or succeed so much in your career.
This very vital shortcoming was there in you as a footballer, despite your widely acknowledged skills. It’s still in you as a coach. You simply don’t know how to build relationship with people that don’t share your character traits or agree with your value system.
People are different. Will always be. You just need to find an equilibrium if you must succeed with them in a working relationship.
SIMPLE.
Problem is, in the mind of the average football fan, you’ve already build a bad reputation for yourself. You’ve been cancelled. The public court sided with Enyeama and Amunike and sentenced you to SE coaching exile forever.
How many teams has he coached since he resigned as a coach? These guys are not just serious. We need a real seasoned professional Manager for SE, Ex Eagle or not.
Hian..! Ibiakwa….!
You want to come and retire Osimhen, Iwobi and Iheanacho from the national team and put Ndidi and Chukwueze on the bench ehn kwa…?
Well done.
By the way, with which CV do you want to even get the SE job…?? That empty thing you carry around…??
He gets a “scouting job” with FIFA to watch 2022 World cup matches for free of charge and submit match reports, and then he suddenly thinks he is now qualified to return to the SE job he ran away from after setting the entire team ablaze……LMAOoooo. Someone should tell this guy to stop over-rating himself.
SE job is always their hiding place…..go and make a success out of your career with clubs (local, continental or international)….mba!
Joseph the dreamer is waiting for a “perfect system” before he will coach the SE…..LMAOooo…as if anyone is even begging him in the first place.
Ok, most of these 1994 set of eagles are actually useless and clueless after retirement from the national team…..How many of them have a FIFA grade A or B license….Even a C but they keep basking in that privilege of 1994-1996 which has faded away honestly and this is in no way a disrespect to them but we can see what other ex players of other national teams are doing..Xabi Alonso just became the youth team coach of Bayern Leverkusen, Samuel Eto, the South African at Manu, and so many others but they just sit and criticize and indulge in football punditry without any verifiable or respectable job in the field.
I meant main coach of Bayern Leverkusen
After failure with club football he want to come and destroy the already falling SE team with his mafia attitude. Because he got job with FIFA technical team he dey use style to lure the new NFF president like he did to Amanju then when he named him Africa Guardiola. We all know how it ended mtchewww
Great player but horrible manager. Oliseh please stay on your lane and leave the SE out of your plans. He might understand the technicalities of the game but he is too controversial to lead anyone.
A lot of us are refusing to thoroughly digest what Oliseh is saying. He says if the conditions are right. But we know that the conditions aren’t going to be right in the foreseeable future in Nigerian football sector. Many of us are refusing to come to terms with the fact that Oliseh is not a “yes man.” He didn’t do it as a player and it is certain, at least for now, that he will not do it as a coach. Oliseh’s case is quite different from other Nigerian coaches. He is living a comfortable life and probably has a reliable source of income to sustain himself and his family. Hence, the incentive to be a “yes man” to Nigerian politicians, majority of whom have never sacrificed a quarter of what he sacrificed for Nigeria, both as a player and as a coach, is not just there.
Have we even asked ourselves if these politicians who fight tooth and nail to be NFF bigwigs have the kind of qualifications Oliseh and his colleagues have. Even in terms of football administration, how many of them can boldly claim to have acquired the kind of knowledge our ex-footballers have acquired. Yet they do everything to lord it over these ex-internationals.
As for Oliseh and Enyeama, do we think that Enyeama is a saint? Enyeama that refused to sit on the bench for other goalkeepers during Oliseh’s time as coach, is all of a sudden a person that can do no wrong. Enyeama was the captain of the team at that time but did he show good leadership in that situation? Or could he have refused to sit on the bench in his clubside if he was told that he will be playing from the bench? But that is what he did in the national team. So, where is the regard for constituted authority. When Onigbinde brought Enyeama up, did other goalkeepers not sit on the bench for him to get the necessary exposure and experience? So, why should it have been different in his own case?
On the issue of conducive environment, let it be known that no coach will ever succeed under the prevailing climate, environment, and arrangement set up by the politicans that currently run Nigeria’s football. Coaches that have somewhat succeeded with our natiional teams have done so by going out of their way to ensure they were successful. Go and ask Keshi (national team), Siasia and Amunike (youth teams), even Sebastian Broadrick of China ’85.
As far as I know, the only coach that enjoyed any semblance of a functional football environment was Clemence Westerhof. The freedom he enjoyed was because Ibrahim Babangida and Augustus Aikhomu were staunch lovers of football at that time and they gave him free access to their offices. Even at that, it was a known fact that the NFA and Sport Ministry at that time, were at logger heads with Westerhof and wanted to micro-manage him as they have ceaselessly been doing with all other coaches that have come after Westerhof.
So, when Oliseh says he is ready to coach Nigeria if and when the conditions are right, he knows what he is saying because he has been there and has lived it.
As for a comparison of Oliseh and Alonso, the difference is in the fact that Alonso is a Caucasian while Oliseh, Amunike etc are Blacks and not just Blacks but African Blacks for that matter! If you’ve ever lived and work in a Western Society, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Josh men. Leave story a beg. Oliseh is bad news. The guy too get attitude. But you are my guy anyday.
In the places he has coached where “conditions are right”, what has he achieved…?
He cant get jobs in Europe because “he is black”, I guess he’s not getting jobs in Africa too because he is black, and not because he has nothing worthy of note to write home about on his CV apart from his TSG scouting jobs for FIFA. You think Xabi Alonso just got Bayer Leverkusen job just because his skin tone is white/caucasian….?? LMAOoooo
Please tell us when “Enyeama ever refused to sit on the bench for other goalkeepers”. Sometimes its best to keep quiet if you have no facts rather than blab off-points in public.
Since Oliseh is already a made man as you claim….then he should sit his ass down in his parlour and enjoy is fortune and leave coaching job for people who are not made yet, instead of constantly indirectly expressing his wish to come back again as Super Eagles coach on pages of the internet, as if anybody is even considering making such a mistake in the first place.
Because apparently, going by what you are insinuating, coaching is for those who are still struggling to make ends meet in life. Others who are willing to, or have offered to coach the SE are not “living a comfortable life and probably do not have a reliable source of income to sustain themselves and their families”
Tell your man that whether conditions are right or not, we will never employ him as SE coach with his empty CV unless he picks his arrogant ass up to go and grind himself elsewhere.
We’ll rather hire Benni McCarthy of South Africa (former FC Capetown and Amazulu coach and current Man U asst coach) or Florent Ibengue of DRC (former AS Vita Clube and RS Berkane and DRC coach) to coach the SE than this over-rated noisemaker.
I’m just imagining what would have been if he were to be the one to win a league title in europe like Ndubuisi Egbo or a cup title like Eddie Newton…..aahhh….we for nor fit even drink water drop cup for Nigeria again.
FIFA TSG job that the likes of Onigbinde and Amunike have done in the past is what is making him feel like Jurgen Guadiola…lmaooo??? Nonsense.
I have noticed that you always find it difficult to come to terms with opinions that varies from yours. You always feel that you’re a monopoly of knowledge on all issues. The fact that you don’t have information on an issue does not mean other people don’t have assess to that information. So, I will not engage you in your tirade.
If you want information about Enyeama’s attitude at the time of his rancor with Oliseh, go and get archives of the interviews he made at the time of the incident. There are always two sides to a coin and on any give case, all facts related to the case are considered before a verdict is reached.
On the issue of being Black or an African and working in Western climes, I will not say more than what I have said. Those who wear the shoes I have portrayed understands what I’m talking about. You really don’t have to agree with it.
Oliseh with his big ego. A man who drove the SE ship in the middle of the sea and abandoned the ship. He retired Enyeama, Emenike, benched Mikel for Paul Anobi. Turned SE into a family business. Brought players who managed by his elder bro Churchill olise into the team eg Sylvester Ighonu
No mind them josh, there comments are baseless. Can they withstand what oliseh had to go through. Does he have to kiss the ass of every player.Indiscipline was what he was encountering but no the coach is wrong and the players are right. Why didn’t they misbehave during rorh’s era.
Nigerian u17 girls leading against Germany….So far they have defended very well.
The way our local coaches stand on the touchline and practically yell at the players what to do with the ball from the 1st to the 90th minute makes one sick.
Seems like we are about to be tactically outclassed again……..lol
You’re leading and second half you hurriedly make nonsense substitutions lol.
For heaven’s sake, how will you be able to read the match properly when all you do is follow you players movements up and down, barking at them like a provoked dog instead of studying your opponents…? Like, I can practically hear every damn thing he his telling the players…..LMAOooo. What happened to keeping your cards to your chest….? As an opposition coach, you think I will hear you telling your players to pass the ball to the wings and I wont do anything to counter that move….??? On top of that, his assistants are just spectators on the technical bench.
Just take a look at all the gadgets and technology the German technical bench is deploying, even at U17 level, in addition to constant remote communication with the coach.
Just look at how simple change of tactics has rendered us chasing shadows in this 2nd half…? Or is this not the same German team we were dominating in the 1st half…?
Hian…!!!
No wonder opponents will change tactics and they wouldn’t even be aware…Lmaooo. Plan A has failed now….no plan B
Naija is loosing due to technical ineptitude…. Why change a winning team both players subed off seemed shocked, and 16mins later we are down by 2 goals
Lack of creativity in the middle of the park did us in… Too bad, this midfield pallaver cuts across all cadres of our football…. We lost foolishly!
Nigeria always falling behind against strong opposition!I’m really sick of this normal trend!
We will always concede twice when we score first and fail to get a goal when we need one.
From what i saw in the first half i see no reason we can’t get a result at least after 90 minutes.
Apart from the lack of creativity of the midfield, the team does not win second balls, the clearance by the defence is very poor, in fact, we literarily cleared the balls gifting them to the opponent! I am afraid, this team will not go beyond the group stage considering what I saw from Chile! Try again next time!
Wait to see Laddan Bosso….A timed bomb waiting to explode…. Nigeria will cry again…I am still wondering how he got the U20 Coaching job…..
This is just a malaria dream!
Well, nothing is impossible in Nigeria
Oliseh you are loser and failure coach, you are some of mangers declined Super Eagles under bottom and perigee , you must forget this idea, go and look after your commercial investments.