Dalung, NFF disagree over foreign coach

Sports Minister Solomon Dalung and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) do not seem to be on the same page, as far as hiring a foreign coach for the Super Eagles is concerned.

Dalong is not in support of the idea, which was mooted by the NFF in the wake of the national football team’s elimination from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Dalung who seems to back back coach Samson Siasia for the job of leading the Eagles said “The hiring and firing of coaches is a problem, when shall we have an end to it? In my view, we place personal interest above national interest.

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“You don’t access a coach with one match. You give him ample opportunity and generate correct data to access his performance.

“The hiring and firing of coaches just on one performance speaks volumes of senses of judgment and it does not augur well for our football. It must stop now,” said the sports minister.

 

 

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