Former Chairman of the Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan, Elder Bode Oyewole has added his voice to those opposed to NFF president, Amaju Pinnick’s insistence to hire a foreign coach for the Super Eagles with a personal note of appeal to the NFF boss and his fellow Board members.
Elder Oyewole, who is a well-known match Commissioner in the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL, in the note titled “A Personal Appeal To The NFF On A New Coach”, pointed out to the country’s football handlers that, “No foreigner can love us more than ourselves,” and asked, “Hasn’t the best European coaches failed, Jose Mourinho, Luis van Gaal, Raphael Benitez, among others?”
The Chairman, Spark Communications Limited, the new owner of Sketch Press Limited, advised the NFF that they should rather hold on to a good Nigerian coach who should be given the task of fishing out talents from the local league.
“Let us get a Nigerian coach, give him a mandate to concentrate on the local league as a platform to put together a new team (and) you will be amazed at the outcome.”
Elder Oyewole, however, cautioning Pinnick to “check the overbearing attitude of your technical committee members.”
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