The Executive Director of the Ondo State Football Agency, ODSFA, Mr. Tunde Ogunja, has vowed not to work with the newly-appointed Technical Director of the Sunshine Stars Football Club, Akadiri Abiodun.
Ogunja, who frowned at the appointment of Abiodun, stated that he was not carried along in the selection process, which he said was solely done by the chairman of the agency, Tajudeen Akinyemi as well as the state’s Commissioner for Sports, Saka Yusuf-Ogunleye.
The ODSFA Executive Director, who spoke in Akure, the Ondo State capital, emphazied that what the club needed, after narrowly escaping relegation last season should be what he described as experienced and capable hands, and not a novice.
“The chairman and commissioner are working in conjunction, I have fashioned out a team and invited a crop of players we want to put in the team, the tired legs will go in the old stock.
“Dogo has been unveiled; those other individuals appointed I cannot work with them, how do you expect a washer man to be a technical director of a team? Is it proper? There is a standard in LMC.
“Before you can become a team manager or a coach, you need to have a CAF B licence, it’s a requirement by the LMC, Last season we have Henry Abiodun as the Technical Director, he’s a CAF license A coach.
“Dogo has CAF B, he is qualified. That is the standard by the LMC, you cannot stay on the bench without a CAF B licence, that’s the minimum. So bringing in people who are mediocre, who are indolent and unintelligent, this is not a kindergarten team, Sunshine Stars is a big team in Africa.
He further stated that he was expecting the technical crew to give him a list of 20 players to be retained as part of preparations for the new season but said the commissioner went ahead to pronounced that the team has been disbanded.
“The commissioner and the chairman are making a mockery of the system, I am a football technocrat, a professional to the core, I know what it takes to have a football team and I know how it takes to have a football team,” he said.
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