Former Super Eagles captain and coach, Samson Siasia, expressed concern about the discrepancy between local and foreign coaches, alleging that the Nigeria Football Federation favors foreign coaches over their Nigerian counterparts.<\/p>\n
Siasia made these remarks during a podcast with ex-international Emmanuel Babayaro and journalist Matthew Edafe on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The NFF is presently seeking a new coach for the Eagles after the departure of Portuguese Jose Peseiro, who led the team to a second-place finish at the AFCON tournament in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t give me Super Eagles from the beginning and give me four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t give Nigeria people four years, you lose one match, they fire you. That\u2019s the truth. The white people will come, you give them more time, you pay them more money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buttressing Babayaro\u2019s point that a white coach once got better pay and was sent on a coaching course by the NFF after losing a game, Siasia added, \u201cAnd we (local coaches), they won\u2019t send us anywhere and they want us to be better.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will pay the white man $50,000 monthly, and pay local hires N1m. From the N1m, the coaching staff will also take inside, and you also have to feed your family.\u201d<\/p>\n
He, however, claimed that among all the national teams in Nigeria, the senior men\u2019s team was the easiest to coach, saying the coaches often enjoyed more benefits from the NFF.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrust me the easiest team to coach (in Nigeria) is the Super Eagles because they will give you everything that you need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut U-20, U-23 and the U-16 are even worse because you won\u2019t see food to eat. The U-20 is a big problem because if you don\u2019t know people who can help you, you are in trouble. After all, the truth is if you don\u2019t start on time there is no way you can qualify for a tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll those times that I qualified for tournaments are not a joke, I know people that own hotels. I will go to them and beg them to allow us to lodge and that we will pay later. They will give you a job one month to play a game and you want to screen players and select the best. How do you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n
The 1994 AFCON winner as a player added, \u201cWe have to go and look for accommodation because they will put us in Goal Project where there is nothing. Do you know how these people (NFF) deal with the national team coaches? That is why most of them cannot qualify because if you don\u2019t have a name you cannot go to the hotel owners to keep rooms for you for free.<\/p>\n
\u201cI qualified the country for the Olympics twice, how many other coaches have been able to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Super Eagles captain and coach, Samson Siasia, expressed concern about the discrepancy between local and foreign coaches, alleging that the Nigeria Football Federation favors foreign coaches over their Nigerian counterparts. Siasia made these remarks during a podcast with ex-international Emmanuel Babayaro and journalist Matthew Edafe on Saturday. The NFF is presently seeking a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":319880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1995,78468,2367,11432],"class_list":["post-319879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-former-super-eagles-captain-and-coach","tag-nff","tag-samson-siasia"],"yoast_head":"\n