Super Eagles: Siasia kicks against foreign coach

The Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) has continued it search for hiring a foreign coach for the Super Eagles.

The former coach of the senior national team, Samson Siasia has said the country can do without a foreigner.

The Bayelsa-born gaffer equally called on his former teammate, Austine Eguavoen to officially resign from his role as interim coach of the Super Eagles, and focus on his primary job as the technical director of the NFF.

Dismissing the idea of another foreign coach for the Super Eagles, the former coach of Nigeria’s U-20 and U-23 national teams said, “We don’t want any foreign coach here because they are not coming to do anything. We have enough good materials at home that we should not be talking about hiring a foreign coach”.

Even though Eguavoen successfully guided the team to qualification for the AFCON next year in interim capacity, the NFF haven’t made a statement on his status with the team ahead of the resumption of the qualifiers for the World Cup.

Siasia however, believes that his former teammate should choose between being a coach or the technical director of the NFF.

“As for Austin Eguavoen’s future with the Super Eagles, I will suggest that we wait a while to see how the team will be. It is a very young team. Eguavoen has a job already as the technical director. He should resign as Super Eagles manager and concentrate on his job. He cannot hold two positions at the same time. He should actually decide on which one to hold and leave the other,” he was quoted as saying.