There’s no need for the recruitment of an expatriate football manager for the Super Eagles according to ex international Samson Siasia; npflupdates.com reports.
The Super Eagles is still without a substantive coach since the time of Finidi George with the national team.
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The three-time African champions has since qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup Of Nations AFCON, tournament with Augustine Eguavoen as caretaker manager.
According to Siasia, locally bred coaches are good enough to handle the Super Eagles judging by the quality of players available.
“We don’t want any foreign coach here because they are not coming to do anything. We have enough good materials at home that we should not be talking about hiring a foreign coach,” Siasia was quoted by TheSun Nigeria.
Speaking further, Siasia urged Augustine Eguavoen to step aside from his role as the national coach.
Recall, Eguavoen is still serving in the capacity of the Nigeria Football Federation NFF, Technical Director.
According to Siasia, the former defender is supposed to resign from one of those two top positions; so he can concentrate on one.
Super Eagles Do Not Need A Foreign Coach
“As for Austin Eguavoen’s future with the Super Eagles, I will suggest that we wait a while to see how the team will be. It is a very young team. Eguavoen has a job already as the technical director. He should resign as Super Eagles manager and concentrate on his job. He cannot hold two positions at the same time. He should actually decide on which one to hold and leave the other,” he argued.
While commenting on the performance of Nigeria against Rwanda, Siasia said:
“Losing at home is not a good thing. It was like they did not play to win. But it is understandable why they did not play as we expected, and that was because they have qualified for the AFCON tournament.
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“However, they ought not to have forgotten that anytime the Super Eagles play and lose, they will count it against the country. It has gone into history that the Super Eagles lost against Rwanda at home even,” Siasia noted.
