Friday 26 February 2016

Can Siasia deliver as the new head coach of the Super Eagles?

It came as a shock to supporters of the Nigerian senior team as Head Coach, Sunday Oliseh announced his resignation through his Twitter handle on the early hours of Friday after just 8months of being in charge.
He tweeted
"Due to contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players, assistant coaches and myself, I resign as Super Eagles Chief Coach"

However, the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) immediately had a 3hours long meeting with the Technical and development committee at Abuja and later announced through its website that the former Super Eagles striker and Head Coach of the Dream Team VI, Samson Siasia will lead the team ahead of crucial African Cup of Nation qualifiers against Egypt next month.

Further adding that he[Samson Siasia] will be assisted by Nigeria U20 coach Emmanuel Amuneke, Salisu Yusuf and Alloy Agu. The coaching crew where also directed to work under the office of the NFF Technical Director Shaibu Amodu.

Now, the question that pops into the mind of everybody is "Can Sampson Siasia  deliver?"
Its no doubt that Samson Siasia and Emmanuel Amuneke have a fantastic and awesome record with the Nigerian junior teams but handling the senior team[Super Eagles] will be a very difficult task for the tactician, following the fact that he[Samson Siasia] failed to qualify the Super Eagles to the 2012 AFCON in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and was also sacked after just 10months in charge.

Also, NFF tweeted on Friday to confirm date of Friendly Match with Brazil. The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and the Confideracao Brasileira de Futebol (CBF) have confirmed that their U-23 squads will play a friendly match in Brazil on Thursday, March 24, 2016. which is clashing the AFCON qualifier match scheduled for Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016. at Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna where the Super Eagles of Nigeria take on the Pharaohs of Egypt.

With these two clashing hot matches, can Samson Siasia still handle the work load and pressure of Nigerian teams? I must say that the odds are against him and that he needs a miracle. He has to fly back to Nigeria immediately after the International Friendly Match at Brazil or forfeit being present at one of the clashing matches. Considering the preparation the Pharaohs of Egypt are making to qualify ahead of Nigeria and the scandals facing the Nigerian senior team together with NFF, the Nigerian fans should have their fingers crossed.

1 comment:

  1. Let him take on Egypt first. From the result of the game and performance rate of the players, then we can have something to say...

    ReplyDelete