President of the Nigeria Football Federation NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, has told all assistant coaches of Nigeria national teams to go and engage themselves with some other job npflupdates.com reports.
According to the NFF executive, the federation will no longer entertain having assistant coaches being salaried. And this is a way of cutting cost of governance as the federation is currently experiencing and battling financial crisis.
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Gusau told journalists in Lagos that only head coaches will be salaried, their assistants are now urged to go ahead and find other jobs; as they can only be paid match invitational allowances and bonuses.
What the NFF said about all national assistant coaches
“I told them (national team coaches) that for us to see that we manage this situation, we are only going to pay the senior coaches salaries, all other assistants will be engaged on invitational allowance, they should go and do other jobs,” Gusau said.
“We won’t put them on monthly salaries. We want to reduce that problem, so that at the end of the day I know if the coaches salaries is N10m and I have N50m, I know I can pay them for five months, not paying people for doing nothing. Even if you are the head coach of a team and you are working with another team where you are paid salaries, we are going to put you on allowance, not salary. In that case, if we are supposed to pay you N1m, we will pay you N500,000. So, thats what we are looking at to manage the situation.”
The NFF chief explained further, that because they(assistants) were employed in large numbers, most of them were usually idle.
“Once you employ them they start making noise about their salary for doing nothing. But most of the time you visit the teams training, you see the assistants just standing, doing nothing because the head coaches don’t believe in them,” he added.
Also the NFF, have denied speculations that it fired all of its national team assistant coaches. According to the federation, they only re-enforced a policy whereby only head coaches are salaries.
“Thenff’s attention has been drawn to misleading reports in a section of the media that all Assistant Coaches of the National Teams have been sacked. This is incorrect,” it posted on its official X (formerly) Twitter handle.
The Board has done no more than re-enforce an existing policy whereby only Head Coaches of the various teams are salaried, while Assistant Coaches are engaged elsewhere and only earn invitational allowances and match bonuses when they come for National assignments.
— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) January 12, 2024
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“The Board has done no more than re-enforce an existing policy whereby only Head Coaches of the various teams are salaried, while Assistant Coaches are engaged elsewhere and only earn invitational allowances and match bonuses when they come for National assignments.
