It appears Stephen Keshi’s days as Super Eagles coach may be over, sooner rather than later, following comments posted by Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick, on social media.
The NFF and Keshi have had a cat and mouse relationship since the end of the 2014 World Cup with the football body going as far as sacking the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winning coach following the national team’s poor start to the 2015 AFCON qualifiers.
President Goodluck Jonathan however ordered the NFF to reinstate Keshi for the remainder of the AFCON qualifiers which ended on a sad note for the Super Eagles as they failed to qualify for the tournament currently taking place in Equatorial Guinea.
Pinnick has never hidden his desire to get rid of Keshi though and on Thursday posted on Facebook: “Getting a new coach and Technical crew for the Super Eagles has been a sensitive issue though I will say that negotiations are ongoing and in a strict manner that sooner than expected a new coach and technical crew will be announced to the Nigeria public.”
His comment elicited a lot of comments from his facebook followers with most of them in support of the move, while some even urged the NFF to hurriedly appoint a foreign coach for the Super Eagles.
One of Pinnick’s followers, Bala Akuboh, however posted: “My candid opinion about getting a new coach is that it doesn’t matter where he comes from whether indigenous or foreign but to have the structure on ground to support his work.”
Not all were in favour of the move to sack Keshi though, such as Dennis Chike Okogwu who posted: “I am still of the opinion that Keshi and co were in the process of building a new team. I want them to be retained. How long are we going to be relying on foreign coaches? We must use what we have. God Bless Nigeria.”
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