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Football: Vogts agrees to coach Nigeria
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This uninspiring NFA people again ! Hear them "Lulu said the NFA chose Vogts as he was best suited for the job.

"We all found him to be very sincere and focussed. He is a complete gentleman who believes in the future of Nigeria football and he is willing to bring his experience to bear on our football," he said."

'sincere', 'focused', 'gentleman'....I can guess these are keywords the NFA people saw in their new man's CV to give the job out! How are these attributes determined in a newly recruited officer ? One that hasn't been tested on the battleground ? Talk of absolute and "unrepentant" idiocy, the stuff that the NFA is made of !

It amazes me to no bounds how football and sports in general continues to be mismanaged by the NFA people. Now that they have another foreign coach, we shall see if that turns into magic on the scoreboard.

The NFA, in my view deserves to be scrapped, to give way for some enterprise-class level of sport management in Nigeria...but hmmn, enterprise, that word itself seems a rarity in any sense in today's Nigeria....

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The solution isn't the hiring of a foreign coach, as if our local ones are incompetent! Its just that the foreign ones command some respect, and resist interference with team selection by the FA, whilst we mess the local coaches about. The problem is the endemic corruption and politicking in the country's sports administration!

At the height of our football's glorious moments at USA '94 world cup, and Atlanta '96 olympics, the coach Bonfrere Jo deserted the team in the US. Followed by the 2 year ban on the national team cos of Abacha's interference, and a woeful performance thanks to major hamza el-mustapha, amokachi & co in france '98; its been downward spiral since then. A foreign coach(BORA) was once quoted as saying 'jesus would find it impossible to work under the atmosphere of the national team camp'

Philipe Troussier that we sacked took two countries to subsequent world cups.


No reputable foreign coach would work for the Nigerian FA, what a waste of abundant talent!

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Well said, gentlemen above. It's like the previous attempt to hire jobless Bryan Robson a few years back as the Eagles' coach. Only failed, helpless foreign coaches would bother to take the Eagles' job. Lulu would have known, if he read the papers and followed world sports.

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The choice of "fussball Berti"is good for Nigeria knowing that he loves Nigerian football starting from the day our U-17 team beat the west German s in the final of 1985 FIFA/KODAK world cup in China.He was the West German coach.He has also won the world cup himself and Assisted "Kaiser Franz Beckenbuaer"to win the world cup for Germany.He has also as a coach,won the European Nationa cup in 1996.
This guy knows football and we need that knowledge,a good measure of luck and more.Among his contemporaries,he is the only one that expressed a genuine desire to coach the Eagles.I cannot limit him with the suggestion that it is because he is out of job.He did well for Scotland but the country is simply ungrateful and their recent spate with subsequent caoch/s confirms that.

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Foreign coach is a mere opportunity by the NFA board to siphon money out of the country by padding Vogts allowances which they in turn travel out to go and collect.
The Eagles, goven the stature of players it has in stock now, does not need any foreign coach to come and teach them anything new.
We have passed through this way before. Why did they not tell us how much they are going to pay Vogts and how long he is to stay and what he is expected to achieve for Nigeria. It is already well known that he will start in March 07, but the other details need to be known since it is tax payers money that will be spent.

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Berti Vogts coached Scotland team was well beaten b a second rate Eagles team coached by Onigbinde on the road to KoreJapan 2002 @ their backyard.

We love foreign things in Africa usually at the detriment of our own things.

IMHO what we need to fix in Nigerian football is our Administration of the sport.

Wait untill we play a friendly game away with any of the European powers and get roundly beaten, then Nigerians will remember that Berti Vogts was sacked in Germany & Scotland for poor results.

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=Papino>He did well for Scotland but the country is simply ungrateful and their recent spate with subsequent caoch/s confirms that.

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Na wa O, Papino. You com turn recent history for 'im head laik say no be now-now de thin' happen, for our very before.. :eek:

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Guys!! this is Fashanu's comments about Nigeria new coach:

Fashanu raises alarm
This German Will kill our football
By FREDRICK EFOLE
Wednesday, January 17, 2007


Fashanu

At long last the search is over, with the signing of an MOU in London with Berti Vogts as the man to tinker the Super Eagles to both ‘Ghana 2008’ Nations Cup and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

But while opinions have differed on the choice of the German, former Wimbledon striker, John Fashanu says the hiring of the coach has only taken Nigerian Football back several years.

Fashanu, who was once on the board of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) while speaking on Brila FM, said the former German International cannot perform any miracles with the Nigerian team.

“How can the NFA prefer a man who failed as a coach to handle the Super Eagles campaign till 2010? This is a disservice to our country, Nigeria…and I make bold to say this.”

The man has been a failure as a coach. He was a big disaster at the last job he had with the Scottish national team. Vogts as a coach did not meet the requirements of what the Scots wanted. What makes our officials think he is good for Nigeria?
“Though I believe that a man can be given a second chance; it doesn’t have to be with Nigeria.”
Vogts, it will be recalled, led the German machine to the quarterfinals of France ’98 World Cup and resigned after German exit.

He was fired by Bayer Leverkusen in 2001 and later had a stint with Kuwait national team. After six months, he moved to Scotland.
His stay with the Scottish team for two-and-half years was the worst yet for Scotland. They lost to teams like Norway and Hungary at home, and a draw with Moldova is what put paid to Scotland’s hope of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.

After the failure to qualify, he was pressured to quit. He did quit with a year-and-half remaining in his contract, and he vowed never to return to football at a coaching level.
When his predecessor took over the Scottish team, there was a positive turn around for the team.
Some high profile players in Scotland like David Weir and Barry Ferguson told the press that Berti suffered from lack of direction and poor management.

Fashanu said if Vogts was coming as a technical assistant it could be understood but he would be a complete disaster, as manager of the national team.
“The way the Nigeria system is run, Berti Vogts will run away.
“When I was the second vice chairman during the Ibrahim Galadima era, I tried to change things but it did not work.

“Nigerian football has been static but the players have been doing great, individually.
“The Ghana 2008 Nations Cup is around the corner and Nigeria should not be thinking of participating without coming home with the cup, considering our rating by FIFA as the 9th in the world,” Fashanu opined.

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Thanks, Oloyede. Those are the facts, as known to most in the footie world..