Ex-international Segun Odegbami has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to look inward for an indigenous coach to handle the Super Eagles.
Odegbami, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos, said that Nigeria needed a better hand to handle the Super Eagles.
NAN reports that Peseiro, in a farewell message on his official X handle, thanked the NFF and other stakeholders for the opportunity given to him serve
“Unless we want to be enslaved forever in our colonial mentality, where we think that only the whites can bring us success,.
“All around us, we hear about some Nigerians who are excelling in all fields of endeavor, and they are leaving the country to go and help other countries.
“Football is not rocket science, but a simple game. We have lots of Nigerians who have all the qualifications to take us to any level.
“For me, I won’t suffer from colonial mentality again and enough of foreign coaches; now, it’s time for a Nigerian coach to handle our national team,” he said.
He urged the erstwhile Super Eagles coach, Peseiro, to move on out of the coaching role of the Super Eagles.
Odegbami said that Peseiro had performed averagely as coach of the Super Eagles.
“Peseiro did not resign as the story is being peddled; his contract ended and it was not renewed, end of story.
“He should bow out when the ovation is loud. If the ovation were not loud, the government wouldn’t have given him the award that nobody could have ever imagined.
“Peseiro got a reward that has never been given to any coach in the world, not because he won the AFCON, but because he came in second.
“He should leave Nigeria alone to face the future. We need a coach who will take us to win something because we are tired of coaches that cannot win anything for us,” he said.(NAN)
