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Edited by Oludare Fase
Are These Eagles Really Super?
Written by Oludare Fase
Published: Monday January 27, 2008
Presently, I do not see what is super about these Eagles of Nigeria. Their lost against Cote D’
Ivoire at on going Cup of Nations Cup in Ghana 2008 was the worst and most devastating of
all their matches.
They played with all frivolity you can think of, and they were adequately punished with a
deserved lone goal in favour of the Ivorians.
The Ivorian bundled Nigeria out at semifinals of 2006 nation’s cup in Egypt and the same
team beat them again in 2008; this is shameful and painful especially for many Nigerians
living in Abidjan.
After watching Eagles’ failure in recent times, some of the questions that border my mind is
that, is it because a number of our players are billionaires, hence do not take national
assignment seriously? Or is it that politicians and sports administrators are messing things
up? Or Is Berts Vogts the right man for the job?
Though I am an advocate of a foreign coach but I have not seen any good job this German
has done. He has not brought any new thing into the team. It has been business as usual
where players are assembled few weeks to important competitions. I challenge him to make
his blue print available to the public. Nigerians will like to know what he wants to achieve and
how he wants to achieve them.
I dislike intensely a situation where foreign coaches relied on all foreign based players that
will only be assembled ‘two days’ before a match. I want a coach to have a standing team
comprising local and few foreign based players who could be called up at few shortest
periods. Let them continue to train together regularly and played friendly matches on a
regular basis.
I think it is a sheer waste of public money on a foreign coach who cannot perform better than
Onigbinde, Christian Chukwu or even Eguavon. I will end this short article by appealing To
Whom It May Concern to please rescue Nigerian football, because the rest of African
countries are catching up very fast.
Written by Oludare Fase
Published: Monday January 27, 2008
Presently, I do not see what is super about these Eagles of Nigeria. Their lost against Cote D’
Ivoire at on going Cup of Nations Cup in Ghana 2008 was the worst and most devastating of
all their matches.
They played with all frivolity you can think of, and they were adequately punished with a
deserved lone goal in favour of the Ivorians.
The Ivorian bundled Nigeria out at semifinals of 2006 nation’s cup in Egypt and the same
team beat them again in 2008; this is shameful and painful especially for many Nigerians
living in Abidjan.
- I do not know what is wrong with Nigerian
football. It is plummeting and something
drastic needs to be done to rescue it.
How will the Eagles be struggling to beat
Angola, Ivory Coast, Mali, Namibia,
Zambia, Guinea, Senegal, even Ghana,
Morrocco, Cameroon, and the rest of
others with all the quality players in the
best and big clubs around the world?
Somebody needs to rescue Nigeria
soccer from total collapse.
After watching Eagles’ failure in recent times, some of the questions that border my mind is
that, is it because a number of our players are billionaires, hence do not take national
assignment seriously? Or is it that politicians and sports administrators are messing things
up? Or Is Berts Vogts the right man for the job?
Though I am an advocate of a foreign coach but I have not seen any good job this German
has done. He has not brought any new thing into the team. It has been business as usual
where players are assembled few weeks to important competitions. I challenge him to make
his blue print available to the public. Nigerians will like to know what he wants to achieve and
how he wants to achieve them.
I dislike intensely a situation where foreign coaches relied on all foreign based players that
will only be assembled ‘two days’ before a match. I want a coach to have a standing team
comprising local and few foreign based players who could be called up at few shortest
periods. Let them continue to train together regularly and played friendly matches on a
regular basis.
I think it is a sheer waste of public money on a foreign coach who cannot perform better than
Onigbinde, Christian Chukwu or even Eguavon. I will end this short article by appealing To
Whom It May Concern to please rescue Nigerian football, because the rest of African
countries are catching up very fast.
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