Whoever emerges as the Super Eagles’ technical adviser will be given a benchmark of winning the World Cup for Nigeria in South Africa, NFF President, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi has stated. Speaking with Daily Sunsport in Abuja on Sunday, Lulu, who is expected to lead the panel that will interview coaches for the Super Eagles’ job said that all those scrambling for the Eagles’ top job must be ready to deliver the World Cup in South Africa in July this year.
According to the NFF boss, the target has to be high and only the man who promises to get us the trophy and live up to it would be considered for the job adding that he had learnt his lesson with the two Nations Cup he had executed as NFF president. He said that he had to raise the stake for the highest bidder.
“Coaches who are scrambling for the job for the money or to boast their CV as World Cup coaches should steer clear because I must get solid assurance from any one that gets the job that we shall get far at the mundial. The era of riding on our back to stardom is past it is time to develop football in Nigeria.
“As the head of the panelists that will interview the coaches, I will demand for a concrete programme that points to the progress of Eagles at the World Cup. I learnt a lot from the mistakes of managing Berti Vogts and Amodu Shaibu in the past and I do not want a repeat of that.
So the new coach must be ready to work his arse off or we kick him out,” he stated
Aside Lulu, who heads the committee, there are also Taiwo Ogunjobi, James Peters, Dominic Iorfa, Dr Tijjani Yusuf, Adegboye Onigbinde, representatives of PTF and the National Sports Commission (NSC), most likely to be Chief Segun Odegbami and Chief Patrick Ekeji respectively.
The NFF president, who confirmed that he would as the head of football in the country, preside over the interview of coaches, stated that the invitation of six or more coaches for the interview was to convince Nigerians that they want the best for the country.
He said that coaches like Hassan Shehata of Egypt and Guus Hiddink have ruled themselves out of the job, and all those invited by the technical committee would be interviewed between February 25 and 26 in Abuja, and not London as being reported by the media.
“There is no way we shall interview coaches outside this country again. Any one who wants to work for Nigeria must come for the job interview here and must be ready to reside in the country and raise local talents for the future.
“The offer for now is to take us to the World Cup and possibly win the trophy for us and then we can come home from the World Cup to sign a fresh contract for four years. We just have to wait till after the World Cup to sign a long term contract with any coach we get now.
“I need a world-class coach with pedigree for performance and discipline to take us to the World Cup. I need to warn that we are looking at the dossier of all the coaches that have been invited and any one that has that record of indiscipline would be kept aside.
“Our players need to be handled with iron hand to get results. I want a coach who can look at our best player in the face and tell him to sit out of a match without the player grumbling. I want a coach who will make the fight for shirts very competitive with no player being sure of a position until on match day,” he stated.
Lulu disclosed that the federal government is heavily in support of the NFF’s decision to get a world-class coach for Eagles and that the coach will definitely be announced on February 28.
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