Former assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Joe Erico has hailed recent statements fromNigeriaFootball Federation, NFF and the Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi that restated that the country has no need for a foreign coach of whatever class to take the Super Eagles to the 2014 World Cup in Bazil.
Erico who served as assistant coach with Stephen Keshi under Shaibu Amodu in 2002 said the pronouncements from the top shots of sports and football to reaffirm support for Keshi were wise decisions. “Any such move
for a foreigner translates yet to waste of public funds. Foreign coach advocates are purely after money,Erico affirmed, adding that “what has past foreign coaches done in the World Cup? Before anyone mentions foreign coach, let us remember that Las Lagerback was once here, Bora Milutinovic came and Berti Vogts also came.
Except for the Asian continent, we have had them from around the world and those that came in recent times were massive failures and our football suffered under them. So, my heart is with Stephen Keshi because he has done a good job and he remains an ambassador of Nigerian coaches for what he has done.
"I will continue to root for him because he is our own. We will get better with time,” he stated, adding “whatever we can do using our own resources and people is the ideal thing.”
Coach Erico, who reminded the NFF about the need to plan towards making Nigeria’s fifth World Cup finals a huge success and not one of mere participation, said past records show that pre-World Cup changes of the national team technical crew in 2002, and 2010 ended in failures.
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