{"id":321242,"date":"2011-03-19T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/contractors-in-eagles\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T01:06:00","slug":"contractors-in-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/contractors-in-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractors in Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why are we so cursed? When shall we stop washing our dirty linens in the public? What do we enjoy whenever we make Nigeria the laughing stock in the comity of football nations? Who should we blame in this disgraceful tussle for Obiora Nwankwo and Odunkamadi in the Olympic Dream Team V and the Super Eagles? Which schools have the curriculum to train our sports administrators and coaches so that they can stop making simple tasks difficult to implement? How will these boys (Odukamadi and Nwankwo) relate with their peers in the Olympic Dream Team V and the Super Eagles after the needless fight between Austin Eguavoen and Samson Siasia?<\/span><\/p>\n

What struck me when this story escalated into a controversy was that the coaches were illiterates, despite their soujourn in Europe as professional footballers. See why sportsmen and women must combine school work with their trade?<\/span><\/p>\n

More discerning coaches would have sought the players’ opinion on which of the two teams they would want to play for. And they would have respected their decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n

What came to the fore was the inherent rivalry between Siasia and Eguavoen even though they pretend to be friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust NFF; it will cast an indulgent eye over this show of shame, a time bomb waiting to explode and ruin our football. The Olympic Dream Team V is the feeder squad when injury crises hit the Super Eagles as it is done elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Siasia’s insistence in having Odukamadi was another way to tell Eguavoen that he is the boss of the national teams. Again, it was payback time for Siasia on Eguavoen, having worked as the latter’s assistant during the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. This show of supremacy is not what our football needs. It is for this reason, among others that I rooted for Stephen Keshi ahead of this feuding duo.<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart bleeds because Nwankwo and Odukamadi are reserve players in their European clubs where younger players are fielded regularly. Put simply, they are not fantastic stars to attract the kind of furore that Siasia and Eguavoen have thrown up.<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart aches further by the fact that Siasia knows that the Super Eagles will whip Ethiopia silly in Abuja without the two boys. He should know that it will pay him to allow these two boys play in the age-grade teams so that he can see them since they hardly get playing time with their European clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is about time NFF defines the parameters for picking players into the national teams. Siasia, Eguavoen and indeed other national team coaches must endeavour to invite only those who play regularly for their European clubs. This idea of coaches hiding under the garb of being given the free hand to pick players to convert the country’s soccer teams into rehabilitation camps or platforms to sell bench warmers to European clubs through Nigeria’s matches should be vehemently resisted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weekly, we watch Nigerians play in Europe; so, no coach can bamboozle us with warp reasons for picking bench warmers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than field bench warmers, Siasia and indeed others should take the risk in parading skillful and younger Nigerians in the local league.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our domestic league is more competitive, sophisticated and better rated than Ethiopia’s.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all Ethiopia is coming for the game with one foreign-based star that plays for a lowly rated South Africa club. In the years of yore, 3SC, Enugu Rangers, Stationery Stores and Bendel Insurance would have beaten Ethiopia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Siasia and Eguavoen must today sheathe their swords and work for the good of the game and for Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

What a pity. Daniel Amokachi has described Siasia and his assistant Simeon Kalika as contractors and nobody wants to investigate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amokachi chose a South Africa television network to rub mud on Siasia’s face. If NFF chiefs know their onions, they must invite Amokachi to substantiate his claims. Otherwise, he retracts what he said using the same platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence from Siasia, Kalika and NFF means that the coaches are guilty. Siasia and Kalika are the face of Nigeria football globally and their reputation should not be in doubt if we want people to take them seriously in any soccer discussion considering Amokachi’s pedigree as a player and now as a commentator. Da Bull has repeatedly taken swipes at Eagles coaches and I feel strongly that he needs to be made accountable to his claims.<\/span><\/p>\n

Go NPL go!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigeria is a very interesting country where people seek cheap popularity by threatening to resign from juicy jobs instead of simply throwing the towel.<\/span><\/p>\n

I laughed while reading a story on Tuesday night where it was stated that the interim Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League Board threatened to resign if he was compelled to conduct NPL’s election with an impending court action.<\/span><\/p>\n

He should have resigned the day the decision to reverse the title sponsorship deal was implemented since he acted as the chairman of the bidding committee. What can be more humiliating?<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did he not shun the meeting where he was asked by NFF chiefs to function as the interim NPL chairman?<\/span><\/p>\n

NPL is a toothless body. Its decisions are not binding on the NFF. The talk that the NPL is autonomous is cheap since they cannot act on any matter of football alone. NPL is not an affiliate of FIFA and CAF. It also cannot deal directly with either body.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I was the Sports Minister, I would have disbanded the NPL and return it as a department in the NFF. Most of the clubs are owned by governments whose appointees cannot be said to be stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please pay Eucharia now!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sports minister Taoheed Adedoja thinks that the solution to our sports problems lies in updating our facilities and making the athletes very comfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Adedoja should call NFF president Aminu Maigari to report at the NSC complex on Monday morning for money to pay Super Falcons chief coach Eucharia Uche her two years salaries, if the story in town that she has not been paid is true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uche has achieved as a coach. As a campaigner of equality among sexes, I want to plead with Adedoja that Uche’s salaries must be paid by Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The money wasted on the futile search for FIFA\/CAF seat for Ibrahim Galadimma is peanuts compared to Uche’s earnings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can Adedoja live without two years salaries?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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