Onigbinde: Nigerian coaches on par with their foreign counterparts
– Adegboye Onigbinde believes Nigerian coaches are as good as their foreign counterparts
– NFF president Amaju Pinnick says indigenous coaches will no longer be employed for the Eagles
– Nigeria Football Coaches Association threatens to tell all coaches to resign from their positions
Former Super Eagles Gaffer, Adegboye Onigbinde believes that the indigenous coaches are just a few steps from their foreign counterparts.
Festus Adegboye Onigbinde
Speaking on monitored radio interview he stressed that coaching programs should be organized for local coaches outside the country which he believes is pivotal to the development of football in the Nigerian scene.
“I have always said that we should invest in our grassroots”, he said.
“Other countries organize coaching courses for their coaches, we should also do the same to our local coaches.”
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Onigbinde was reacting to a statement attributed to NFF president Amaju Pinnick that the football governing body will no longer employ indigenous coaches for the Eagles due to the stormy reign of Stephen Keshi and Sunday Oliseh (who resigned at the end of February).
The Nigeria Football Coaches Association (NFCA), (umbrella body of coaches in Nigeria), reacted to the story by saying it would direct their colleagues in various national teams to withdraw from their positions unless Pinnick tendered an apology.
The NFCA said in a statement: “We may have to ask our colleagues like Samson Siasia and others to step down because if they eventually qualify the Super Eagles, they wouldn’t be given the job.
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“Amaju should bring his foreign coach now to prosecute the two-legged matches with Egypt and not use Siasia and others as spare before carrying out his plan,” the statement said.
In a related developmnent, Siasia is expected to announce his list of players invited for the match against Egypt today after submitting it to the Technical and Development Committee of the NFF.
Nigeria will first welcome the seven-time African champions on March 25, before travelling to Cairo for the reverse clash on March 29.
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