“NFF to Hire Foreign Coach for Super Eagles” – Pinnick

 

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has resolved to looking international for a substantive coach of the Super Eagles, who resigned on Friday morning.

Although Samson Siasia was appointed as interim coach, President of the NFF, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, who fielded questions at the colloquium organised as part of the 18th Annual Africa Business Conference of the Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, said at the weekend that the federation had reached the “last bus stop” in keeping faith with local coaches.

 

According to hotsports.tv, the federation has decided to search for a quality European coach to take charge of the senior national team.

Another ex-international whom Keshi took over from in 2011, Samson Siasia, is the current caretaker manager for Nigeria’s make or mar AFCON 2017 clash with Egypt next month.

“After this Sunday Oliseh debacle, we have definitely turned the corner. We are now going to start shopping for a well grounded and qualified foreign coach to tinker the team. Enough is enough,” declared Pinnick at the Harvard colloquium.
The NFF supremo insisted that there was a world of difference between a good coach and a good manager.

“What we have learnt is that there is a world of difference between being a good coach and being a good manager,” he said with ample emphasis as he fielded questions from a captivated audience who had been enthralled by Pinnick’s contribution as the lead panelist at the colloquium.

Pinnick however did not reveal the identity of who was in the radar of the NFF at the Harvard confab.

The NFF president, who was in company with the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr. Chinyeaka Christian Ohaa, served as a distinguished panelist for the paper, Football in Africa. Foremost sports marketer/promoter and Chairman of Hotsports Media Group, Mr. Taye Ige, was also at the conference.

 

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