President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick has commended the efforts of the Super Eagles despite a 0-1 loss to Tunisia in their Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16 match in Garoua.
“We are proud of the efforts of the players. They gave their all and tried very hard to win even when they had numerical disadvantage. It was just not our day,”Pinnick stated.
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“I want to thank His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari for his love, support and encouragement to the team while they were in the championship. I also praise the Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Sunday Dare for his interest and attention in the progress of the team. Losing at this stage is painful but we take solace in the great spirit with which the team approached its four matches in Cameroon, out of which it won three.
“The focus and attention will now shift to the FIFA World Cup qualifying play-off against Ghana in March. We want to assure Nigerians that we will prepare even harder for those two matches to get the job done.”
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This Man need to go. He is part of the problem and not until him and his cohorts are eliminated our football will not progress
Facts, pure facts. Pinnick and his babalawo looking beards must go . He is the major problem.
This bastard needs to go at some point, he will ruin our football with his stupid lack of ideas. He is still thanking Buhari……Foolish mango head bitch!
Thank you Amaju Pinnick as have already taken solace while moving on. Please the NFF should move quickly by announcing a coach for the national team. I would have preferred a local coach with a good understanding of the boys, but whatever, do this timely because the World cup playoffs are here already. God bless Nigerians.
That is the problem with some Nigerians if they are true Nigerians kpakpa. Sooner we’ve forgotten that we either win or lose with our own. Going forward, the Nigerian football federation should go and beg Eguavoen to rescind on his step down, employ him as a full time coach of Nigeria and not this confusing interim head coach. Super Eagles should be about way forward and not what happened in Cameroon which is past tense anyway. I know some people will cry from till they kingdom come for a milk that is well spilt.
The major problem is not Eguaveon but Nigerians. Rohr was playing a system that was getting results but nigerians were complaining they want beautiful football.
LEt Peseiro take over and eguaveon can continue as his technical director and he can learn more. i beleive eguaveon time will come again and he will learn from his mistakes.
The problem with beautiful football is that ur opponent can be strategic and neutralize you easily.
u want to go back to the 94 period but u dont have okocha, yekini, findi, oliseh etc
It’s also a question of reading a match and quickly adjusting your strategy to suit the moment. I watched as Simon Moses was virtually bottled up by the Tunisians. It dawned on me that this was a deliberate strategy by the Tunisian coach.
Our players shouldn’t be talking to the press and revealing their strengths freely as they did in Cameroon. Simon was opening his mouth widely.
And Okoye? I don’t think he is ripe yet for that task. He is a “man of the future”. We need to source for a goalie before the WC playoffs.
Uzoho is there alteady and more reliable. He was our No 1 Goalkepper at 2018 World cup and he did very well, even when our defence did not give him much protection. Maduka
Okoye should be No 2 or 3 in the pecking order.
Thank you Amaju Pinnick as we have already taken solace while moving on. Please the NFF should move quickly by announcing a coach for the national team. I would have preferred a local coach with a good understanding of the boys, but whatever, do this timely because the World cup playoffs are here already. God bless Nigerians.
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That is the problem with some Nigerians if they are true Nigerians kpakpa. Sooner we’ve forgotten that we either win or lose with our own. Going forward, the Nigerian football federation should go and beg Eguavoen to rescind on his step down, employ him as a full time coach of Nigeria and not this confusing interim head coach. Super Eagles should be about way forward and not what happened in Cameroon which is past tense anyway. I know some people will cry from till they kingdom come for a milk that is well spilt.
Don’t mind them, they are already crying and making the usual noise upandown. I am in support of begging Eguavoen to continue since has struck a perfect understanding with the lads. But he must be given at least 6 years agreement. God bless Nigeria.
Thank Jacob and Dennis for your thoughtful comments. I don’t know why our fans in this forum tend to be abusive and imprudent almost all the time. Such behavior demonstrates our immaturity and irresponsibility.
These guys in the Super Eagles are sacrificing a lot to make Nigerians and so we should all the time support them even when the going is tough. They are our beloved brothers. Let’s rather encourage them than disparaging them.
Having said, please let us unanimously prevail on the NFF to retain the coach, Austin. He’s a very good coach, a father and a big brother to these young guys. Please, and please, we no longer need a foreign coach in Nigeria. We should learn to develop and encourage our own local or national coaches.
The foreigners don’t know more than our national coaches. You can imagine what Austin Eguaveon was able to do within this short time. Bravo Super Eagles.
Pinnick is a Fool a Complete BAD LUCK to Nigeria’s Game. He lacks tact and timing can you imagine the ingrate. Thanking Eguavoen for his good work in the Group stage by saying he will not be paid a salary enough said. Pinnick you are fired JOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ugo, you are right here. Mr Pinnick can talk loosely most times. He should try to control his emotions and also measure his words when addressing critical issues of national importance.
How can he publicly state that Austin Eguaveon won’t be paid as a coach but match bonus because he is a staff of NFF. Such supposed to be a discussion but not for public consumption.
In recent past, he also stated that Austin Eguaveon is a good coach, but Peseiro of a man is better. He is reckless in the use of words. This again shouldn’t have been said in the open if you are so convinced. Anyhow, let’s continue to support our own no matter the circumstances. Thanks
When is this Pinnick stepping aside as NFF Chairman?
The NFF should go ahead and discharge their responsibility and forget about these online noise makers who don’t even meant well for Nigeria as a country. I hope Eguavoen would accept to coach the eagles on a permanent basis. That is where we should concentrate our attention. He did very well in Cameroon despite having only few days to prepare the team, winning 3 games out of 4 is very good. We have to be frank with ourselves. Haba!
Well spoken Pinnick. Now, Nigerians are asking for a way forward since Afcon 21 is gone. Is your NFF going to give us a domestic coach or what? Please answer us in your next press meeting. Thanks.
Me myself was not happy when they said Austin Eguavoen is interim head coach. From Okere to Ugberikoko Rd, we were angry. Please make them permanent am for better performance since he has come to our locality two years ago to encourage us to play soccer.
Nigerians deserve the pain we get in this country.
The local coach did well for getting to round of 16 but rohn failed for winning bronze.. I weep for my country..
Many of the things we suffer in this country are what we truly deserve
Rohr had three years to do that and Eguavon and co had only 28 of December 2021 to 9th of January 2022 to do it. That’s 12 days. Go and employ a white president
So the possibility of performing poorly due to the wrong timing of sacking the coach was known? So why sack him in the first place? Did he fail to meet his targets? All what you’ve said right now is excuses
Yes, to rebuild you must start from scratch. I think overall performance of SE wasn’t bad at all, the boys did well. Sometimes you need to look deeply at the present to project the future. Egu showed us what the SE can do if properly managed.
Haba! It’s a game, anyone can lose a match. Does that mean we should forget how they won their three games and the exciting brand of football they gave us? I support continuity with Egu. But the players opinion should about their coaches should also be considered.
Yesterday, Egu was poor tactically! How do you go to a war with only one weapon. The whole world knows you play from the wings. You started from the wings, got clipped and had no plan B.
Common, football has many formations. A good coach should switch when things are going as planned.
After the red card and a goal down, why keep 4 defenders? I feel he should have subbed Aina and Zaidu for Ajayi and Ejuke. Ajayi will join the defense to make it a 3 man defense. Ejuke and Simon plays from the wings, retain Ndidi and Aribo in the mid field and play Okayinka /SadiQ upfront…..3-4-2
Even if we no go coaching school, we Dey play PS nah…
Rohr warned ‘’no easy way out ‘’ We wanted to bamboos them. We threw caution in to the wind instead of a cautious approach and attacking sporadically. The results is what it is. I hope we have lean’t our lesson. There are no easy way out. I will rather advise we get a good coach or our football start going down. Football is results oriented. It may not look beautiful but once you get the results, you are good to go. Imagine if we had played a better team than Tunisia?
Eguavoen should be asked to stay and be sent on a coaching course asap. Cerezo has won more than 75% of his matches.
75% of players on this team should be retained. The coaching crew should be strengthened with Finidi, and Rufai/ Carl should be brought in to assist Cerezo. Based on my observation:
1. Leadership: the team lacks leadership. This team needs a leader whose action on and if the field will benefit the team. In the past we had chairman chukwu, Mathematucal Odegbami, Big boss Keshi, Sunday Oliseh, Jay Jay Okocha and Mikel the catalyst Obi.. These guys put the team on their back and their heroics are well documented. The team should consider Balogun/Ndidi. According to report, Balogun almost got into fight with Collins for exposing the defence in the encounter against CV and Ndidi remains our biggest export. Balogun can direct the defence, Ndidi the midfield and Osi the attack.
2. Players selection should be 100% based on merit. Add Balogun, Osi, Amoo, Adeleye, Desser, Lookman, Ovie, Dele Bashiru, & Olise (if interested) to the team.
3. The team should learn to convert set-pieces.
Hahaahahaha….When Balogun reprimanded Collins for poor showing on the pitch, as a natural leader and senior player that he is, y’all tagged it as “discipline in the team being at its lowest ebb”……LMAOoooooo….just because you were looking for a bad name to give a dog to kill it. When players like Roy Keane and Patrick Viera during their playing days would grab teammates by the throat in the dressing room for poor showing. Now y’all all calling for that to return…….LMAOooo. I pray God adds more pepper and some drops of acid to the pain y’all are feeling in your bellies now…..LMAOooo
For us Nigerians to enjoy watching good football again, we have to let go of Amaju Pinnick and the current NFF members otherwise, expect nothing but confusion and painful results like we saw in yesterday’s match.
Watch out for Cameroon from now on. They, the Cameroonians have realized their mistakes and they fixed it by putting ex footballer there to be their FA president.
In Nigeria, we are deceiving ourselves by putting business men and ex politicians to run our sports and we are seeing the results now. All our national teams have failed to qualify to tournaments under the current NFF.
We don’t know our pedigree in football anymore. This is why some of us still thanking Amaju Pinnick for taking Nigerian sports backward. We failed to rich the Afcon final this year because of this Amaju and you are here today listening to sweet talk from Amaju the deceiver of our time? It is a shame if we don’t know.
We can not fix the problem in our sports except we replace the current NFF members. Shikena. God bless Nigeria!!!
We failed to reach the AFCON semi finals because of idiots like you Omo9ja in the glass house at NFF and the Sports Ministry.
Amaju is only a contractor fulfilling the allegations idiots like you clamoured for. You with the Sports Minister – Sunday Dare, Segun Odegbami, Larry, JimmyBall,Chima E Samuels and Ugo “blabbermouth” Iwunze.
This is your beautiful and total football speaking. Amaju is a politician and a good one at that.
After all Amaju was the one that made the recruitment of a foreign coach possible, yet you and your co-horts started making allegations of bribery and corruption against him with no proof.
Just noise as usual. Why not campaign for the sack of Sunday Dare as Sports Minister. After all, every sporting endeavour the minister has involved himself with has failed. From Basketball and now football, everything has failed
That is the bigger person to sack. Amaju is only playing to his tune because of politics. The same you and your lots campaigned for some 8 years ago over President Jonathan, now you are campaigning for the removal of Amaju.
You will not know peace with your lies and insinuations. Just like JimmyBall.
Omo9ja god go punish you
Oga @frank and oga @Ben….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Chai….
U guys are real Nigerian….
I see the Spirit…
I no say joy nor dey Shar.
But pls u ppl should take it kindly…..
We all feel the pain….
Forgive them pls let’s move on.
Thanks.
I say Amen 100 times that idiots with unreasonable comments.
You want god to punish me while am telling Amaju Pinnick oppressor the bitter truth?
Back to sender ooo. God will bless me plenty plenty.
Fight our oppressors not me.
@Tayo, Back to sender oooo. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
See how myopic you are, where did anyone call God to punish you. Please place the quote here.
Go and tell Sunday Dare to resign as Sports Minister, he had failed woefully.
Every sport he touches is a failure.
Uneducated white man is better than black professor. You can’t compare rohr tactics to Eguavoun own.
See slave mentality. Look at this stupid bitch and what you wrote???
If NFF Chairman is a white man, he will resign but black man will die there on top of curoption. Don’t you know that karma must visit you when you sack rohr 2weeks to major tournament like nations Cup. I told my friends that accultic people full Nigeria FA. If you talk too much, they will off you out of this world. They impose players on any coach they emplore. So Nigeria can not learn from Brazil and other top football nation across the world. Una own na curoption all the time.
@Larry , I am never a fan of Eguafon, but only a daft would not understand your sublime analysis.
With what Eguafon was able to achieve in few days of taken over the colourless SE where we were praying to draw with Cape Verde even with our best player Osimeh on the pitch, without one day preparation .
Eguafon scored 75% , his team played the best football with mass attack – mass defence but only lost to the combination factors of poor officiating, bad luck where within few minutes one of the best outstanding player Senior Man picked yellow ( that slowed him down as he was more than careful not to pick another card that would have definitely lead to read card ; then come bad one straight red card to Nwobi ); even though our goalkeeper Okoye was poor but I don’t want to join people that were criticizing him left and right so as not to affect his confidence, because he did not made himself N01 , rather the blame should go to Oga Rohr for coming up with those average goalkeepers for his 6 years waste in SE ; Okoye is definitely a goalkeeper for the future.
Last factors is the wicked trap tools always being employed by Amaju Fraud-Pinnick to make our local coaches fail , so as to continue with the employment of a mechanic like Oga Rohr who cannot be allowed to sit as assistant coach in their country’s feeders team let alone main team. That of all lesser countries Rohr had coached in the past , only a corrupt Nigerian football federations can condoned a quack coach as Rohr for 2 years , let alone of settling records in Nigeria as the SE Coach longest ever !!! ( it shows the level of corruption in the glass house !!) ; how Fraud-Pinnick could be so wicked given Eguafon such enormous task within few days without ordinary 20% of what clueless foreign coach earned beat my imagination, just as Sunday Oliseh never received one kobo salary for a day until he quit after 6 months ; I am very sure , even if Eguafon received half of Rohr salary , he wouldn’t have wasted so much energy on the needless retired Igahalo where he lost opportunity to bring in a quality player in the person of Amooand Dessers who could have made his reserved bench very Solid .
Only God knows what Amaju Fraud-Pinnick intend to achieve with his public ridiculing (a high flying coach that was the best in Afcon 1st round , winning 3 out of 3 , with fifa ranking of N03 in Africa ) by going to the public to announce YK the world that Eguafon would not be entitled even 30% of Oga Rohr !!
Eguafon should be asked to rescind his decision to step down, then given 2 years contract ,beginning from qualification for WC and next Afcon qualification and gold ;
Lastly should be paid for that 2 years , half of Og Rohr salary .
The only worry I have in Eguafon is , he is Mr Yes-Man just like Oga Rohr , Eguafon can’t stand the pressure of manipulation ( how would a sensible coach take a bench warmer in a local Eyimba club to such tournament? and 4 goalkeepers for that matter !!
All the same , it is better we allow Eguafon to continue the good work he has started ; only a quack and jobless coach in the mould of Oga Rohr that is ready to do business with Amaju Fraud Piinick that would want to accept job offer from serial debtor like NFF.
In a sane country , when Rohr was sacked , his business was Amaju Faraud-Pinnick would have been forced to resign and be in custody of effc until after next wc for Nigerian football to move forward.
In conclusion I stand with brilliant submission of @Larry
Eguavoen contuine waiting, Shame on you hooooooo, go and hide ur face in shame and stop writing rubbish
Our players got needless cards at the afcon – aina, aribo, iheanacho and iwobi. I can’t remember any of our players getting a red card in all the 5 years of Rohr even when faced with the toughest opponents. Despite leading Sudan comfortably we still got two needless cautions same with GBissau, all that is an indication of things to come. Our players didn’t understand the rules and that falls on the coach.
Meanwhile it took Di Matteo less than 2 months to win the champs lge with Chelsea. Tuchel had a very short time and sis same and also qualified for CL after Lampard toiled for months. When Egu beat Egypt u didn’t say all this. Now that he has spent almost a month with the players I think it shd only get better and not worse.