Super Eagles’ Technical Crew ‘Not Good Enough’ – Former NFF Member
A former board member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Sani Fema, said the Super Eagles are a group of talented players without good coordination and head coach, adding that the team’s “technical crew is not good enough.”
Fema, who is now a Special Assistant on Sports to Senate President Ahmad Lawan, made this known during an interview in Abuja.
He was reacting to the Super Eagles 1-0 defeat of the Djurtus of Guinea Bissau in the return-leg match of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier, played on Monday at the Estadio 24 de Setembro Stadium in Guinea Bissau.
In the first leg, Guinea Bissau beat the Nigerian team 1-0 at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja. However, Fema said Nigeria’s performance in Bissau has shown that the team was capable of confronting and defeating any team in the world but that it lacked the technical crew to bring out the best in the players.
“We can play Brazil with the same players but the problem is that we don’t have a good coach, I am sorry to say this; our technical crew is not good enough but we have the players to play any team in the world,” Fema said.
“You can see that the players did well in Guinea Bissau, most especially in the first half, the host couldn’t attack them.”
“I am so impressed with the team but like I said, we lack good technical crew. I am not supporting Peserio, I prefer our local coaches,” Femi added. “We have potential coaches, the likes of Sunday Oliseh and Emmanuel Amuneke.”
“Oliseh is one of the best coaches in the world. Combine Oliseh with Amuneke and Salisu, then the Super Eagles are good to go because the players will listen to them having played in the team before them.”
According to him, Oliseh is the best Nigerian coach to handle the present crop of Eagles. Fema noted that Oliseh was not able to handle the team in his short stint as its coach because of circumstances beyond his control, but that the environment was befitting now for him to excel with the team.
“If you give Oliseh this calibre of players we have now, I tell you, the team will be the pride of the world,” Fema said. “Imagine these players playing on a waterlogged pitch in Guinea Bissau and were still able to secure the maximum three points.”
He said that not even Sao Tome and Principe or Sierra Leon could stop the Super Eagles from finishing top of Group A and also picking the AFCON ticket.
NAN/Obinna Aniakor/Chidi Nwoke.
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