The rumour making the rounds that, as the Nigeria Football Federation cannot by itself afford to pay for the services of a highly technical foreign coach, they will soon unveil a local coach for the top role of Super Eagles gaffer.
This is a massive gamble.
But, Eguavoen did succeed in getting the Super Eagles to play an attractive brand of football. What was missing was tangible success.
Now, should this story prove true, will this new indigenous coach be able to use attractive football to gain tangible success?
I will support any coach hired and give him my wholehearted support. I just hope the new coach will be able to invent a winning strategy and crucially assemble players who will buy into his philosophy.
As we sadly saw under Rohr, Eguavoen and Peseiro: getting the Super Eagles to play an attractive brand of football that blows away the opposition and leave opposition fans weeping with envy is tough and near impossible to achieve.
These are often stubborn players who are hastily assembled and often proved to be able to be curtailed by even the Central Africa Republic, Sierra Leone and Cape Verdes of this world.
This new indigenous coach has a mammoth task on his hands. There will be millions of foreign-coach leaning fans to placate; hundreds of stakeholders to win over; and very many influential players to bring on-side.
It is not a job for the faint-hearted.
Well, I am waiting to congratulate the successful candidate – there is much to be done. Coaching the Super Eagles under this climate will almost be like trying to run up a down escalator.
But, run up the successful candidate must.
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