Football free fall is divinely orchestrated – Maigari

Sani Lulu: I am better than Maigari

*My administration better than Maigari’s - Lulu

Nigeria’s two consecutive football administration may have taken their childish theatrics to the higher level of insulting Nigerians with their mundane but pedestrian thinking with Aminu Maigari, the sitting President of the illegal NFF saying the free fall of football fortunes under his administration in divine while his immediate predecessor, Abdullahi Sani Lulu, saying his administration is better than Aminu Maigari’s board.

Two sides of the same coin! One was a looting agency no wonder the board members are enjoying ongoing prosecution with the EFCC. The other is peopled with practical football illiterates (save Deji Tinubu).

Ask, is it God who says Maigari’s board should lack vision, ideas, managerial ability, inability to interpret its own laws written in simple English language, or lack understanding of the very reasons why they are there: football development.

The two administrations are very adept in making monies miss ($238,000 and the latest, N54m in the NPL). They are very good in spending N100m on every outing of the Super Eagles. They are very good in fighting Davidson Owumi and taking octogenarians to cadet championships. Both Lulu and Maigari are functions of anomic bedlam.

 

Nigerian football needs technical commission-Peter

Immediate past Assistant General Secretary, (Technical) and former Nigeria national team coach, James Peter, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) to set up a technical commission made up of experienced former national team managers who can guide the development of football in the nation.

He said the likes of coaches Kashimawo Laloko, Adegboye Onigbinde, Shaibu Amodu and a host of others including himself are still very active and relevant to the growth of the nation’s football.
The former Super Eagles coach opined that not that himself and the other older coaches in the country want the job of coaching the national teams at all cost, but that what he feels is right for the country’s football to do is get the technical commission to build the framework of development around the national teams’ coaches, create a programme of training nurseries under the tutelage of the state FAs.

“The idea of the technical committee is outdated. In other advanced football climes, what you have is the technical commission. Former national team coaches are those who people the commission. They form the playing pattern of the nation’s football which is carried to younger club coaches and youth development programmes. They scrutinize the lists of coaches. See the case in Brazil.”

He further said that what made coach Shaibu Amodu what he is today is because when he came into the coaching job, he worked under Adegboye Onigbinde. Myself and older coaches like Sebastine Broadericks, Chris Udumezue, Joe Erico, and a whole lot  of others acquired the needed experience that had led us far in this coaching business.

Speaking on the recent failure of the Super Eagles and the Super Falcons to qualify for the 2012 Africa Nations Cup in Gabon & Equatorial Guinea and London Olympics respectively, he said the federation should invoke the terms of the contract they had with the coaches that whatever it says they should go by it.

He said that “the beauty of the job of coaching is the uncertainty that surrounds it”. He noted that the hiring and firing of coaches is part of the job, as such, any coach that is sacked is not because as an individual is not good but because the terms of the contract which would have specified what to follow when the event turns the other way round.
Peter insisted that even though the current national teams’ coaches are sacked or retained what is important is that they should be attached with experienced coaches on the technical commission so that they can learn from them.