Anything short of a clear victory, with goals to shore up Osimhen’s chest in his chase of that exalted but difficult title of Highest Goal scorer in Nigerian football at international level, held since 1994 by Rashidi Yekini, and before that by ‘yours truly’ since 1981, would be totally unacceptable at this stage of Nigeria’s football development.
By the way, the only former goalkeeper to have served as Chief coach of the national team in Nigeria’s history is late Carl Odw’yer in the mid-1970s. This past week, Ike’s voice has been rather loud, bitter and strident, unusually rising above the din of the match between the Super Eagles and the underdogs from Guinea Bissau.
Ike, thereafter, called up his compatriot in the technical team of the Super Eagles, an assistant coach also, Finidi George, MON, to find out his own fate. Finidi’s response was similar to his own experience – he was told not to report to Abuja too. Immediately after the ceremony, an official of the FHA approached the two recipients, retrieved the keys of the houses from them. He claimed there were some repairs to be done on the bad doors leading into the houses, and that the keys would be returned to them within days.
They have always been products of political discretions done by whoever is in charge as President of the NFF. Even the Technical Director has been powerless in process. That may explain the silence of the present Technical Director of the NFF, Mr. Austin Eguavoen, throughout the present imbroglio.
The result is out now