Odegbami Encourage NFF To Hire Indigenous Coach For Super Eagles

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Odegbami Encourage NFF To Hire Indigenous Coach For Super Eagles—-Ex- international, Segun Odegbami, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to look inward for an indigenous coach to handle the Super Eagles.

Odegbami who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos, said that Nigeria needed a better hand to handle the Super Eagles.

NAN reports that Peseiro had in a farewell message on his official X handle, thanked the NFF and other stakeholders for the opportunity given to him serve

“Unless we want to be enslaved forever, in our colonial mentality where we think that only the white can oach us to success.

“All around us, we hear about some Nigerians who are excelling in all fields of endeavours and they are leaving the country to go and help other countries.

“Football is not a rocket science, but a simple game, we have lots of Nigerians who have all the qualifications to take us to any level.

“For me, I won’t suffer from colonial mentality again and enough of foreign coaches, now, it’s time for a Nigerian Coach to handle our national team, ” he said.

He urged the erstwhile Super Eagles Coach, Peseiro to move on out of the coaching role of the Super Eagles.

Odegbami said that Peseiro had performed averagely as coach of the Super Eagles.

“Peseiro did not resign as the story is being peddled, his contract ended and it was not renewed, end of story.

“He should bow out when the ovation is loud. If the ovation is not loud, government wouldn’t have given him the award that nobody could have ever imagined.

“Peseiro got a reward that has never been given to any coach in the world, not because he won the AFCON, but because he came second.

“He should leave Nigeria alone to face the future. We need a coach who will take us to win something because we are tired of coaches that cannot win anything for us, ” he said.

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He shared this news via his social media handles.

Azpilicueta enjoyed his most successful years at Chelsea after joining the club from Marseille in 2012. During his 11-year spell at Stamford Bridge, he made more than 500 appearances and became the first player in the club’s history to win every major trophy available.

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BREAKING: Shock Omissions as Palmer and Alexander-Arnold Miss England World Cup Selection

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