NFF, What Next Now?

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Posted: Dec 08, 2011

My demand on Maigari’s NFF is simple: give us a road map that will lead Nigerian football out of the present rot. The road map must be clear and it must satisfy the S-M-A-R-T principle in management: It must be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound. It must be SMART.

NIGERIA’S FOOTBALL misery in 2011 was completed last weekend when the Under-23 men’s national team were knocked out of the African qualifiers for the Olympic football tournament in London 2012.

Following the women’s team Super Falcons’ failure to also qualify for the Olympics, and the senior men’s team Super Eagles’ failure to qualify for the 2012 African Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equitorial Guinea, it is now confirmed that Nigeria will not take part in any major football event in the 2012 calendar. A lengthy barren spell stares us in the face.

Under-23 coach Austin Eguavoen took the honourable way out when he apologized for his team’s failure and immediately resigned his appointment. Unlike his erstwhile senior team colleague Samson Siasia, “Cerezo” (that is Eguavoen) quickly saw the hand-writing on the wall and jumped into unemployment before he was pushed. Nonetheless, he attributed his failure to his inability to secure the release of several key players from their European clubsides. But his critics say he should have based his plans on home-based players from the outset. A coach can hardly win an argument the moment his team does not achieve a stated objective. In this high profile job, you are as good as your last result.

So, Eguaveon is gone, but the administrators at the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) remain. And it is to them that we now direct the question: What next for Nigerian football following the recent spate of failures?

The present NFF members should count themselves lucky. Were it in the days of yore when the old Nigeria Football Association (NFA) got sacked at every turn, President Aminu Maigari, his entire executive committee members and probably the whole secretariat of the “Glass House” would have been swept out of office by now. The old regimes of Chief Sunday Dankaro, Effiom Okon and Chuba Ikpeazu did not record under their watches such comprehensive failures as Maigari’s before they were sent packing by the Federal Government. But since Emeka Omeruah completed a three -year tenure between 1993 and 1996, thanks to the enthronement of the NFA Statutes, there has been stability in the management of Nigerian football as every successive “NFA Board” or “NFF executive committee” has completed its tenure, except Anthony Kojo Williams who was impeached in a palace coup.

The legality of the present NFF is still being contested in various courts, but that is no excuse for the successive set-backs that our football has suffered in recent times. It is also not an excuse for the NFF’s failure to articulate a visible action plan for Nigerian football since its assumption of office in August 2010.

Legal issues will always arise in the life of an organization and what the NFF is going through is not peculiar. During the last decade of Nigeria’s democracy, we’ve seen many State Governors endure several years of court cases. If they won eventually, they remained as governors and if they lost, they stepped aside. Maigari is presently the president of the NFF. If he cannot strike deals or fulfil the terms of his agreements with his adversaries, he should stop complaining and let the cases run their course. If the cases turn out in his favour, he will continue the work he has started. But if he loses, he will step aside; simple as that. So much for the legal issues allegedly distracting the NFF president.

Having said that, I personally do not hold the present NFF solely responsible for the current poor state of our football. As I have illustrated several times in this column in the past few weeks, Nigerian football started deteriorating since we began neglecting the key developmental necessities of the early and mid - 1990s and started focusing on short term “victories” achieved by questionable age-grade teams while the senior team, the true indicator of a country’s global football standing, was dying progressively.

Unfortunately, Maigari’s NFF arrived in 2010 to continue on the same doomed path trodden by the previous Sani Lulu regime. So, now that the “Glass House” has finally collapsed during their own tenure, Maigari and his co-travellers must clear up the entire mess and chart a new course for our football.Court cases or no court cases, they must rebuild the house before they are ejected, otherwise they will only be remembered as the biggest failures to ever manage Nigerian football. The big question is whether they have the capacity, the sincerity, and the knowledge to do the job.

My demand on Maigari’s NFF is simple: give us a road map that will lead Nigerian football out of the present rut. The road map must be clear and it must satisfy the S-M-A-R-T principle in management: It must be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound. It must be SMART.

Current technical committee member Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has cried for long that the NFF had no football development plan, other than to participate in competitions. Now that there are no major competitions on the horizon, Maigari has no option but to draw up a development plan.
So, dear NFF President, what are your plans to develop football at the grassroots? How do you regulate and monitor the “soccer academies” that are mushrooming all over the place? How do you recruit, train and develop talented players from these academies? Are you going to genuinely outlaw the use of overage players in our junior national teams seeing now that it is counter-productive in the long run? How will you manage the transition of players from the junior teams to the senior team? Who will coordinate these activities?
On player transfers, what is your policy on international transfers? How do you stop the racketeering of International Transfers Certificates (ITC) allegedly going on at the NFF? How do you discourage exodus of players to lowly foreign leagues? Are you going to set a minimum age-limit below which players will not be allowed to go abroad so that they could develop more at home?How do you stop the fraudulent “player-trafficking” currently going on in the guise of player-management?

On the secretariat, what is your policy on NFF’s finance and administration? How do you improve the overall management and running of the secretariat in order to improve efficiency? How do you stop the reckless wastage in the system? How do you stop the jamboree mentality associated with attending competitions? How do you ensure that coaches get their salaries as and when due?...

I can list 200 questions for Maigari that Nigerians want answered now about his future plans for Nigerian football. But the few ones above will suffice for now. Now that there are no major competitions to junket to, Maigari and his members should sit down, earn their allowances and publish (repeat PUBLISH) their plan of action for Nigerian football. We want to see the short, medium and long term plans, how long each phase will run and the projected results at the end of each phase. We will then be able to make an informed assessment and measure the results achieved at the end of each phase. This is the way that I know proper organizations are run. Anything short of this is not acceptable. Failure to plan is planning to fail.

In the past few weeks, I have gone into the archives to publish some ideas that had been presented to the NFF in the past and I made a case that some of them should be revisited. Maigari is at liberty to reject some or all of those ideas. But having rejected the ideas, he must then come up with his own and published them for Nigerians to see, monitor the implementation and assess the results at the appropriate times. If Maigari fails to do this, let him know that whatever else he does will not fool us. We will simply come to the conclusion that he does not have any clue on how to restore the lost glory of Nigerian football.

Unfortunately, that is a conclusion that a lot of people have reached already. It is up to Maigari and his executive committee to prove otherwise.

Automatic Withdrawal!

lFOR SEVERAL years, some commentators and fans have argued that what Nigeria needs to properly rebuild her football is a total withdrawal from participating in all competitions at least for two years.

Last year, that wish was nearly granted when President Goodluck Jonathan announced the country’s withdrawal from world football, ostensibly on the advice of his Presidential Committee on the Super Eagles, following the team’s ouster from the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. It took a threat of a FIFA ban and the intervention by a section of Nigerians for the president to rescind his decision.

I have never supported (and still do not support) a Nigerian boycott of international football because, even while “rebuilding” your team, you still need to test them against other teams in order to assess the progress you are making. Had we insisted on last year’s withdrawal and FIFA banned us, we may not have been eligible to even play friendly matches against other FIFA member countries. And the world would simply have moved on without us.

However, Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the two major football events in 2012 (I am discoutenancing the junior competitions because of the controversy surrounding the players’ ages) means the international boycott that some have been clamouring for has now been forced upon us. I prefer that it came this way because now, we have a choice to play or not to play any friendly games as we rebuild the Super Eagles. In fact, we may choose not to play in the 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers and the 2014 World Cup qualifiers if we feel that we are not ready for international football by then! FIFA will not ban us for that. But I would wonder about how we intend to attain “perfection” if we didn’t “practice” against other teams. Remember, “practice makes perfect.”

Anyway, now that we have been forced to withdraw from international events for at least one year, let us hope that NFF will spend the period of hiatus judiciously so that the Super Eagles can return with a bold statement in 2013.

Soccertalk Forum: Join In!

lA discussion forum is developing on the Soccertalk page at the Complete Sports website, www. completesportsnigeria.com. Some of the more regular contributors in the past few weeks are Moshud, Kola (USA), F.M. Okoli (Dubai), Chrisesse, The Watcher, Langbodo, Jorge, Qasim, Sanusi Alao, Expert Corner, Olutayo (USA), Malomo Gbemi, Eagle Eyes, Emmauel Ene and a host of others.

I read up all the comments on my recent articles and I want to thank the “Forumites” for keeping it chatty. Beyond agreeing and/or disagreeing with my views, however, I hereby encourage members to also contribute short articles of their own or offer original suggestions to the NFF via the forum. The best short articles on the way forward for Nigerian football will be published in Complete Sports newspapers for the NFF’s attention.

Let us play our own part by sending ideas to the NFF, although they have the prerogative to accept or reject our suggestions.

If you’re not already on the Soccertalk Forum, join today. Go to www.completesportsnigeria.com. Click on Soccertalk.

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Ovo

Dec 08, 2011

Oga Mumini, If these fellows in the NFF don't listen to your suggestions, I wonder who they will listen to. However as an ordinary football enthusiast and a lover of Nigerian football, I submit below my suggestions for the way forward. Some of them you will be familiar with.
Football Development in Nigeria
We need to go back to the basics
1. The reintroduction or revamping the inter-house sports in primary and secondary schools
2. The reintroduction or revamping of headmasters and principals cup at L.G.A levels
3. Reintroduction of Governors Cup at the state levels
4. Revamping of NUGA, NIPOGA and the likes
Then the above competitions, YUSFON and National sports festivals should be properly monitored by a department in the various Sport associations and or football clubs to have a database of upcoming and potential talents, from where age grade competition players should be selected.
The need for legislature and or regulation.
1. There should be a body that regulates the standard of football academies. I think that there should be a minimum standard for the facilities (pitch and kits), for coaching staff and for management staff. Also the possibility of a designed curriculum could be explored to ensure standardization.
2. Privatization of our professional football clubs such that government share holding is not more than 25% , if not 10% (in line with recent prudential guidelines)
3. The clubs should have their own academies/ feeder teams or be associated with a known academy.
Sport Ministry / NFF
1. For every sport association there should a department, if you want call it the ‘scouting department’ that will be responsible for the indentifying and collation data for upcoming stars and talents. The data should be clear with set criteria for players rating for Goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders (holding and attacking), wingers and strikers.
2. There should be clear transfer policies and the management (player agents) of players from one club to another and from the country to abroad. Set age limits and number of matches played before players are exported from the country.
3. Development of a football culture/philosophy. By this I mean the kind of football we which to play and be known for, is pure flair? Is it purely physical or flair combined with physical and wing play, etc. This will act as a guide for the choice of coach and players.
4. Sending of coaches and technical staff on attaché to foreign clubs for between 2 to 3 months on, on the job training to gain experience on how the game is run in those clubs.
5. Encourage local coaches to take coaching certification and education seriously.
Others
1. The stadiums should be leased to the private owner of the clubs initially for a minimum period of 10 to 20 years with a possible moratorium period of 2 to 5 year and with the option of buying it or building their own after.
2. Scouted players should be camped regularly for blending and cohesion.
3. Gradual reduction of funding from government especially to the NFF to encourage them to source for sponsorship and to put the monies gotten from CAF and FIFA into proper use. This will also discourage politicians who want to go there with the intentions of feathering their nest.
4. Where possible for future elections into the NFF executive board/management, contestant should subject themselves to live televised debates where they will be question on their abilities, knowledge of the game and their programs.
5. The proposed Technical Director post when appointed should someone who passionate for the development of the game, one who is ready to reside and work in the country. He should be supported by staff or technical committee members who can collate and analyze players’ data, on their strengths, on what they bring into a particular team, their preferred positions, the distance they cover, duals won, shots on target, completed passes etc.
Adedayo Omidiji

Dec 08, 2011

hi mumini the yardstick of any company is performance this nff is worst in nieria history the only solution is to sack them because u can give what u dont have they have fail
Richard

Dec 08, 2011

See the video clip of this 9 year old nigerian boy. Amazing! we are blessed but just need to put our acts together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk0umqNI55c
Chrisesse

Dec 08, 2011

Editor. You said much in your article. Do you sincerely believe d nff can give us a road map telling us how they intend to develop fball in nig utilizing this 'no tournament at all' period? No. Coincidentally the senate/house of rep just announced that it is the players, coaches that failed nig and not the nff. Can you imagine that!! All the national teams, male &female; teams-junior, olympic, u-20, SENIOR, beach, caf champions league, caf cup, wafu, failed and the law makers are saying nff has no blame. How ll fball develop. You see what forumites are saying.
Again!!? This age cheat matter should not be a subject anymore as fifa, caf, nfa-nff all know about it. If they are serious, they have been told severally to use the pubic hair check as a yardstick to fish out cheats. We know the thickness or texture of a 17yr old boy's pubic hair.
On the issue of transfer policy, any salary in any oyibo country is better than d salary in nig. 150 naira =$€£1. So these boys ll prefer no transfer policy. One forumite Obi commented on the article 'why nig fball ll not grow' and all he wrote is the truth. So mr editor don't expect anything from mr green and his oga and nff. Onigbede is a green snake under green grass. Plenty talk to exonerate himself but blame others even his fellow colleague in nff and coaches, for d ills of nff and fball generally. A typical Yoruba man with tribal marks. Never at fault. I rest my case.
Kola,usa

Dec 09, 2011

What is typical of a Yoruba man with tribal marks? Why can't you take the fact that Siasia has no coaching certificate, or that he rode on Kalika to achieve his success? What Onigbinde said was CONFIRMED by Oliseh, that Mr Green told him he rigged SAMMY'S interview, and Onigbinde said he warned them that Siasia could not be coach, but Mr Green said the people wants him(Siasia) so he made Sammy the coach.
Mumini i,m happy you mentioned my name, that shows you do read some of the things we write. The biggest problem with our football was SIASIA , and i,m happy he's gone, he single handedly destroy a lot of people before he achieved his ambition ( LULU AND AMODU ), and after he failed he blamed everybody but himself. When he won a silver medal in 2008 , he was difficult to work with because of his ego and attitude, and when he failed this time around , he was still a menace to the hands that fed him. Most of the nasty attitude by the fans today was all because of him, and i think with time NIGERIA WILL SHAKE THIS OFF.
@Ovo made some good points about inter- school sports, principal cup and Nicon and NUGA GAMES. I will go a little further by making the NUGA or the university and polythecnics the 3rd division of NPL, which will be based on regions ( west, east, north and south) , and 2 teams each will represent each zone for the play -offs. There will not be promotions or demotions, only div 1 and 2 will have to do that. This is to bring money to the universities and generate rivalries, which will constitute the U20 , andU 23 TEAMS. The secondary schools should be the 4th division by local goverment area, at a point regional local government will meet at the state finals, and 16 teams will make the play offs organised by zones( west,east, south and north) to finally determine the principal cup winner , with a winner each from each zone.This shows a lot of these teams will not have to travel out of their various zones, before the regional or state finals. This will make even the secondary school players act and behave like proffessionals before they finally become one, obviously they will represent the U17 team
Chrisesse

Dec 09, 2011

@kola. If u are actually in usa, u are an outsider. We in d country feel where it bites most. Siasia has laid a foundation that no one can destroy but many coaches to come will build on. Keshi has just started building on it. Lets watch. Odegbami, Adokie, most radio and tv sport analyst like channeltv, raypower, deltatv/fm and the generality of Nigerians including ministers, Senators, Reps, commissioners, all acknowledged that Siasia was up to something good. The support was something else. Discipline was progressively returning to eagles like d days of Westerhoff. Agreed he was sometimes(?) 'rigid' but it was necessary as a discipline-must-by-all-means-possible-be-instil-into-this-eagle strategy. It would ve worked. Its d same method AVB is using in Chelsea now. Anybody can be chopped. Lampard, Dragba, Mikel etc. Anelka and Alex are leaving becos of that. More ll leave- Cech, Dragba, Mikel(?), Lampard etc. Read www.thesun.co.uk/football. So just keep quiet and comment on less complicated issues you can defend with facts. You really don't know Onigbede. Find out well. A green snake under green grass. Is he suppose to publicly say 'I advise them' when he is part of them? It was a unanimous decision. U see?
Bright

Dec 09, 2011

@kola(usa) I detest d way u spoke about SIASIA. I am neither his boy nor on his payroll but I don't like ur comments. What's ur prblm? If u dont like Siasia y dont u GO and SLEEP. Manage a Team and lets see, Mr. Perfect. D issue on ground not d issue of SIAONE. IT IS A NATIONAL EMBARRASSEMENT! And our so-called Leaders are paying lip-service to it. How wuld u define d actions of d SENATE who condemned d players and Coaches but commended d NFF?(i.e Free Barrabas BUT CRUCIFY JESUS?). D NFF from inception had no devlopmtal plans for d National Teams. D WIN AT ALL COST SYNDROME has caught up with dem. Now is d time to "use our tongue to count our teeth" and PLAN for d FUTURE or else, NIGERIA would be BUNDLED out of 2014 World cup qualification. Oga Mumini, I appreciate ur advice on d way forward for Nigerian Football. These are some of d things I av personally advocated on this platform. I will repeat some of those suggestions here for them(nff) if dey will listen and make amends. Thanks
Bright

Dec 09, 2011

@kola(usa) I detest d way u spoke about SIASIA. I am neither his boy nor on his payroll but I don't like ur comments. What's ur prblm? If u dont like Siasia y dont u GO and SLEEP. Manage a Team and lets see, Mr. Perfect. D issue on ground not d issue of SIAONE. IT IS A NATIONAL EMBARRASSEMENT! And our so-called Leaders are paying lip-service to it. How wuld u define d actions of d SENATE who condemned d players and Coaches but commended d NFF?(i.e Free Barrabas BUT CRUCIFY JESUS?). D NFF from inception had no devlopmtal plans for d National Teams. D WIN AT ALL COST SYNDROME has caught up with dem. Now is d time to "use our tongue to count our teeth" and PLAN for d FUTURE or else, NIGERIA would be BUNDLED out of 2014 World cup qualification. Oga Mumini, I appreciate ur advice on d way forward for Nigerian Football. These are some of d things I av personally advocated on this platform. I will repeat some of those suggestions here for them(nff) if dey will listen and make amends. Thanks
Sirjames

Dec 09, 2011

@Kola (USA), just as you have advised many times that people should forget Siasia (since he's gone), I also advise you, let him go. If you have any issues with him, please setlle with him privately, not in the open.

It's not right that you use every opportunity to hit out at him. I can tell from your contributions that you are very brilliant but then you divert from the issues you're addressing and start attacking Sia1. For me, it's a sign that you're an unforgiving person. Please stay with your brilliant contributions and LEAVE SIASIA ALONE. God bless you, bro.
Oluwasegun

Dec 09, 2011

@kola, why not wait and let's see how the new dawn will bode for us. Remember that immediately Siasia was appointed, many of our national teams were competitive from the U-20 who played beautiful football to the U23 who have some of their players as fringe players in the Super Eagles now. Siasia has left for over a month now and things are getting worse. Why blame him all the time?

Oga Mumini, you may be a brilliant analyst but Nigerian football will not move forward if we cannot even tell our friends the truth. You cannot be telling us to go back to a 1984 paper by Onigbinde. He is part of the problem, always absolving himself from blame but will always blame others. He failed in the first round of the WC in 2002 and came back to tell us he was building a team. In 2004, none of his players was around again. He was in Shooting Stars and he could not apply his grassroot knowledge to lift up the team. The present predicament of Shooting Stars started during his tenure. He has been in the technical department of NFF for a long time, yet the technical department's input has not been felt. Kola, USA will praise Onigbinde to high heavens because he attacked Siasia. I was a fan of his at a time but later withdrew my support after noticing his inconsistencies and his love for sycophancy and praise-singing.

Provide many recommendations but they will not work until some of these old men give way to young brilliant brains. See the Barcelona and other successful teams today, they are run by young brains with fresh ideas. They are allowed to fail and learn. Until we do that, we will continue to impress one another with recommendations without seeing any change.
Steve Nihi

Dec 09, 2011

I enjoy reading your articles. I will simply suggest we go back to the basics of catching them young. Not only in football, but sports generally. We have been sliding down in all areas and it's sad.
What happened to:
- Secondary schools inter house sports
- Inter secondary schools football competitions like the principal cup in Lagos state
- NUGA games
- NIPOGA games
- YSFON, etc
I can go on and on, where talents like the Odegbami's, Adokie's, Ugbades, etc were discovered?

Most secondary schools don't even have sport field's any longer and games not part of the school curricular activities. No sport centres again, recreation centres have been converted to "only God knows".
We are just burying talents and over rating the few "lucky" ones that available.
We need to start hunting from these and the corporate world need to take the lead in restoring and sponsoring these games and not just focusing on the league.

Just a thought.

Regards,
Steve
Danorous

Dec 09, 2011

Kola usa, if u have nothing good to say about a man, u better get your doomed life out of this forum. You are beginning to anger some people here with your stupidity and foolishness. The samson siasia you continue to mention was not just loved by half of nigerians by mistake. A man's name is always on the people's lips based on what he has done for them. A man that has won a gold medal and four silver medal did not do that overnight. U can start by telling the world how many matches siasia played, how many he won, how many he drew and how many he lost with the super eagles without your normal bias way of writing. Your stupid ass amodu is d back bone of indiscipline that we now face in nigerian football. You can start from 2005 till date and tell everybody in this forum how siasia killed the entire nigerian team. You suck, and you deserve to be whipped silly. What a dumb bitch mutha fucka this piss of shit is!
Amadi

Dec 10, 2011

@DANOROUS HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATION YET ? YOU ARE JUST ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND YOU NEVER MAKE ANY SENSE, HOW CAN chrisesse INSULT A WHOLE GENERATION OF NIGERIANS JUST BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID siasia . IF YOU WANT TO WORSHIP SOMEONE AT LEAST START WITH YOUR FATHER, ALTHOUGH YOU DON'T KNOW HIM , BUT NEXT TIME YOU COME HOME WE WILL SHOW WHERE HE ALWAYS SLEEP WHEN HE GETS DRUNK.
Eddie

Dec 10, 2011

Guys, I'm so worried that at this point in time in Nigeria, we are still struggling to call a spade a spade. For those who keep attacking Siasia, I wish they could go back and watch the videos of all matches played by a team he has groomed from onset and take to a tournament. Then compare it with any other team outside the '98 and above set in all level of national team and then tell us which of them could play a more beautiful football than Siasia "groomed" team? Unless you've never played football, then you cannot appreciate what he was doing. I can still recall the submission of supersport analyst when our dream team IV defeated Cote'dvoire team at last Olympic games: "Cote'divoire was taught a football lesson by a superior team". The Super Eagles under him was just begining to gel. If only we had waited a little bit longer. If only... wing, power play, athletic football would've become ours. I hear people keep saying that he rode on the back of Kalika to win, but somebody should tell me which successful coach does not have a solid confidante and partner? Sir Alex Ferguson, Mourinho. I knew he would be sacked, but I was hoping he would not. It means if Mourinho was employed by NFF, he would've been sacked when he lost 5-0 to Barca. He said then that Barca was a finished prodouct, while his team was work in progress. In today's El Classico, baring any external help, a year's progress will be on display!!! Keshi! I have my doubt, but as a patriotic nigerian, I wish him good luck.
Tolu

Dec 10, 2011

I suggest we go back to Ajegunle to scout for fresh players, after all the likes of Amuneke, Taribo etc were discovered in Ajegunle and not the Nigeria League. Rather than using over age players for under age competitions, they should start playing for the super eagles straight away. A word is enough for the wise.
Wole Banjo (destar)

Dec 10, 2011

All forumites that are against kola usa?, i will appreciate you allow him to continue to talk about Siasia , by so doing kola is confirming that Siasia remains an issue in Nigerian Coaching.....let us encourage him the more .....@kolausa? please continue at least you can see that your attack on Siasia is becoming a broken record .......pls..continue , Siasia has set yardstick for Nigerians coaches to follow.....the other time Keshi said he can work with Oliseh but at the same time he want to be given chance to use his own assistants ......., no any indigenous coaches has ever brought respect to Nigerian coaches in the past .... players now report to camp as at when due ...... the Ghana that defeated our Super eagles in ANC was beaten by Siasia in Olympic qualifier without our best legs then (mikel & taiwo) despite the fact that Ghana paraded killer squad in Essien of this world........the rest is history how siasia rested most of the foreign base professionals but combined the few with local players and taught Ghana who had defeated him in African games qualification a football lesson just as he did in Olympic proper with mostly unknown players except Ozase ...... another coach could not combine the same local boys with the available foreign based players to qualifier dream to Olympic........ Koalusa? has to erase the record of Siasia achievement before he can succeeded in burying Siasia .......... as for me ooo i still day laugh oooooo
Danorous

Dec 11, 2011

@ Amadi, u are a fucked up fool. I don't need to exchange words with a low level punk like u. I live in a civilized wolrd were things are done in the proper way. I work with professionals and i know a professional when i see one. We have failed to qualify for the olympics, may be u and kola usa can go and see the yardstick in which siasia used in qualifying us for the olympics in 2008. Same players he used in 2005 for the african youth championship are d ones that played the under 20 world cup and the olympics 3 years later. Now, same set of players now play for the super eagles and top clubs in europe. No nigerian coach has ever succeeded in managing a team like sia1 dd. We all saw a brand new team under 9 months he was employed to work with d super eagles with some good football display and results. Samson siasia needs to work with with white men not black ass holes like yourself and kola who has nigerian black bloods floating in their brains. Good talk wole banjo. destar
Aaron Ee

Dec 12, 2011

Dear Mumini
I support Ovo.The involuntary hiatus of Nigeria from international football competitions in 2012 may yet turn out to be a blessing in disguise if the period is used judiciously to repair the cracks and lay down a viable foundation for a proper football industry to thrive in the country.
We must not delude ourselves though that this mammoth task of repairing and rebuilding will be concluded in one year,no..That is why the emphasis and focus must very clearly be on foundation-laying for building an economically viable industry.
The critical issues to be addressed in my opinion are:
1. Entrench an essentially private sector-driven football environment.
2. Upgrade the status of the local leaque to attract and retain our best youth talents under 22.
3. Create a strong and integrity-based youth development system and eliminate age-cheating.
4. Upgrade training facilities,administrative and coaching manpower to world class standards.
To my other Forumites,please let's focus on the subject at hand.It is serious enough.
Regards
Oriben

Dec 12, 2011

Kola usa is a mad dog, let it bark and continue barking in the dark. Nothing can change it unless you give it a bone.
Austin

Dec 12, 2011

@KOLA USA. CONTINUE BARKING O UNTIL YOU CAN BARK NO MORE AS YOU JUST THEY CRY DAY IN DAY OUT SIASIA DEY ENJOY HIMSELF KULEE WITHOUT EAGLES JOB. ONE DAY THEM GO ANNOUNCE WHICH HOSPITAL YOU DEY FOR HEART ATTACK. YOU GO DIE FOR NOTHING.
Matmode

Dec 13, 2011

Kola USA, u av no good thing 2 offer.Period
Mueez Ola

Dec 13, 2011

Kola is a typical example of the senators that blame the coaches for failing to qualify for any major tournament next year.He is a replica of no future focus(nff) and onigbinde,a caf instructor who cannot tell siasia that a 2-1 scoreline against guinea could qualify us for afcon.siasia's teams played attacking,not heart-attack football like under Amodu.they also scored plenty of goals.Forumites should ignore american kola and his likes bcos we will end up making them popular.Let us wait for keshi to win the world cup in Brazil.Long live sia1,you are best among the rest.
Mueez Ola

Dec 13, 2011

Kola is a typical example of the senators that blame the coaches for failing to qualify for any major tournament next year.He is a replica of no future focus(nff) and onigbinde,a caf instructor who cannot tell siasia that a 2-1 scoreline against guinea could qualify us for afcon.siasia's teams played attacking,not heart-attack football like under Amodu.they also scored plenty of goals.Forumites should ignore american kola and his likes bcos we will end up making them popular.Let us wait for keshi to win the world cup in Brazil.Long live sia1,you are best among the rest.
Mueez Ola

Dec 13, 2011

Kola is a typical example of the senators that blame the coaches for failing to qualify for any major tournament next year.He is a replica of no future focus(nff) and onigbinde,a caf instructor who cannot tell siasia that a 2-1 scoreline against guinea could qualify us for afcon.siasia's teams played attacking,not heart-attack football like under Amodu.they also scored plenty of goals.Forumites should ignore american kola and his likes bcos we will end up making them popular.Let us wait for keshi to win the world cup in Brazil.Long live sia1,you are best among the rest.
Mueez Ola

Dec 13, 2011

Kola is a typical example of the senators that blame the coaches for failing to qualify for any major tournament next year.He is a replica of no future focus(nff) and onigbinde,a caf instructor who cannot tell siasia that a 2-1 scoreline against guinea could qualify us for afcon.siasia's teams played attacking,not heart-attack football like under Amodu.they also scored plenty of goals.Forumites should ignore american kola and his likes bcos we will end up making them popular.Let us wait for keshi to win the world cup in Brazil.Long live sia1,you are best among the rest.
Olutayo(usa)

Dec 13, 2011

"Octopus" Alao,May u live long.

I would like to believe that Maigari,Green et all know what to do but are just bedeviled with the spirit of corruption,negativitism,procrastination etc.

Mumini Alao,Odegbami had on numerous occasions highlighted the way forward.I also subscribe completely to "Ovo" recommendations but the question is will the selfish,money-seeking,egocentric pple at the glass house see reason?

The NASCOM project is one good way to curb under age cheats.Legalising a specific age for our players going abroad is another good thing.However,i know Nigerian player agents will devise ways to take our players abroad.

On Keshi,he has to address a press conference and tell us his plans for rebuilding the SE having at the back of his mind that players that will not be available after 2014 world cup should take less priority.He should the current team Siasia was building,inject his own type of players, and come up with a perfect blend. Keshi had worked with Westerhof as a player,and also various coaches in his playing career.Now is the time to put in his best to the departed football glory of this country.

I will continue to support my one only SE/country Nigeria.

God bless Completesports/ SE/Nigeria!!!
The Watcher

Dec 13, 2011

Why is no one talking about a mass sack at NFF? Mumuni, you faulted Siasia for not resigning and commended Eguavoen for doing so. Why not tell the people at NFF to resign or is the job a job that cannot be resigned?
This NFF loves making scapegoats out of coaches when it is obvious that the problems are far bigger than them. Now they should be made to dance to the same tune.
Aside all this, I think FIFA is part of our problem. They are just like Cameron threatening to stop aids to African countries that do not condone homosexuality when he does not know jack about the African culture and way of life.
I personally believe FIFA needs a major rival like we have in boxing as per WBA, WBF, IBF, etc. Football is too big for a single organization to monopolize.
The Watcher

Dec 14, 2011

By the way... all these textbooks solutions to our football problems would only work when we take some radical steps. Steps like being banned by FIFA, etc
The reasons why NFF posts is attractive is because of all the perks and goodies from foreign trips in the name of football administration. If the only attraction is criss-crossing Nigeria's bad and armed robbery-infested roads, most of them would run. I have consulted for the public sector organizations like this so I know.
Mumuni would not support a complete boycott and I understand why - it will affect CS too. Competitions and Grade A friendlies are big news that bring big returns plus all the travelling goodies.
Why can't we take a break without FIFA banning us? Can't a nation decide whether he wants to play international football or not. Why should FIFA stop Nigeria from playing with England if both nations wants to. If Nigeria organizes competition like the Mandela's cup and invite top football nations. Would FIFA stop us? This FIFA sef!
Some says a FIFA ban would weaken us as it did from 96 - 98. But how did South Africa come out of apartheid to win the nation's cup. Now that they are part of the FIFA system, they have never been the same. 96 - 98 was disastrous because we did not make use of the opportunity it presented to look inward and develop our football systems and leagues. Our administrators were just waiting for the next opportunity to cash their estacodes..
If I were to write my own blueprint, trust me - it would be too radical.
Samson

Dec 14, 2011

Pls let stop attackin each other over what wil feel but the issue on ground is road map to nigeria football. I go with idea that secondary schools competition and most nigeria teams should be privatised for good management. A scouting department should be in place comprises of people with experience that can see a talent should be employee
Samson

Dec 14, 2011

Pls let stop attackin each other over what wil feel but the issue on ground is road map to nigeria football. I go with idea that secondary schools competition and most nigeria teams should be privatised for good management. A scouting department should be in place comprises of people with experience that can see a talent should be employee
Samson

Dec 14, 2011

Pls let stop attackin each other over what wil feel but the issue on ground is road map to nigeria football. I go with idea that secondary schools competition and most nigeria teams should be privatised for good management. A scouting department should be in place comprises of people with experience that can see a talent should be employee
Ivongbe Raphael

Dec 21, 2011

Nigerians are complaining,pls tell d NFF,sacking coachies is nt d solution but players on d pitch.some of those players never ment to represent Nigeria.
Ivongbe Raphael

Dec 21, 2011

Nigerians are complaining,pls tell d NFF,sacking coachies is nt d solution but players on d pitch.some of those players never ment to represent Nigeria.
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Nigeria.. a sleeping Giant may slumber for 200 years before real leaders emerg.