“I Don’t Want To Ever Coach The Super Eagles Again” – Sunday Oliseh

Sunday Oliseh
Former Super Eagles International and ExCoach, Sunday Oliseh has vowed during an interview to never coach the Nigerian senior football national team again, as the environment around the job was toxic and unhealthy for his health so he could not afford to “die on the job”.
Sunday Oliseh Former Super Eagles Coach
Sunday Oliseh Former Super Eagles Coach

The former Borussia Dortmund and Juventus midfielder, who further said he had great plans for the country that the type of template he put in place for the team he was building was what the French National Football used in winning the 2018 World Cup, he pointed loved working with boys, he loved coaching his country but the atmosphere around the job was just not good for him health-wise.

His words:

“No, I don’t have the intention of ever coaching the (Super) Eagles again,” he said.
“I loved working with the boys, I love coaching my country, but the atmosphere around it was no longer healthy.
“I didn’t want the job anymore. Health-wise I was not feeling too good; secondly, we were owed salaries. I was spending money on my health and on my team. I just couldn’t die on the job.
“Truth is, we have a foreign coach now and from what I heard and know, he is being paid four times the wages Stephen Keshi and I were paid and these are two players (himself and Keshi) who won trophies for Nigeria.
“I’ve never heard Gernot Rohr complain about wages. Keshi, while he was coaching, was always complaining, when I was coaching for four months, I was unpaid, for six months my assistants were unpaid, so I had to leave the job; we were also being frustrated.”
Oliseh also disclosed that he had good plans for the team before he resigned.
“I had good plans for the team. You will notice that at a time I brought in (Wilfred) Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Kelechi Iheanacho, young players who are dominating now,” he said.
“I brought in a world-class goalkeeper (Carl Ikeme) because I felt the old breed were ready to leave
“The same philosophy I used while with the Eagles was the same philosophy France used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
“Sometimes you ask yourself questions about Nigeria. You won laurels for the country as a player, you’re doing well as a coach, you were about qualifying for the World Cup and you’re unpaid for four months.”

Sunday Oliseh is an ex-Super Eagles captain he featured 63 for the national team scored 3 goals for Nigeria one of his most famous goals was the one scored against Spain in France 1998 which he scored a thunderbolt volley from outside the box. Sunday Oliseh played for Nigeria at the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cups in USA and France

Oliseh participated in the Olympic gold medal-winning team of 1996. He was voted Africa’s 3rd best footballer in 1998. Photo Credit: Getty

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