Henry Nwosu, former Super Eagles captain, has berated the call from several quarters for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to hire a foreign coach for the Super Eagles, saying he has no confidence in them.
Nwosu, while speaking to Independent on Wednesday, said that even though he acknowledged the huge contributions of coaches like Otto Gloria, who coached the team to win the Africa Cup of Nations in 1980, the current expatriate coaches coming to Nigeria were merely after money.
“I played under Westerhof and also Otto Gloria. Gloria was a fantastic coach. He thought us a lot. But some of all these foreign coaches that come today come because they know that we have talents here. “They come, do one or two things, even failing in the process, collect our money and disappear. Some, when we lose a match, do not even come back with the team, they disappear right from the match venues.”
Speaking further on the insistence of the NFF to go for a foreign coach, even when the Federal Government is saying otherwise, Nwosu said that the leadership of the football house does not like ex-internationals, who form the bulk of Nigerian coaches today. “(Amaju) Pinnick has never loved ex-internationals. I’m sorry I have to say it because I am always frank. I don’t mean to insult him. He has never loved ex-internationals.
“He may love some on paddy paddy level, but he does not love anyone to work with him. So I am not surprised that he is an advocate of a foreign coach. But he should give us a chance even if he does not like us.”
credit: independentnig