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According to News reports, Super Eagles Coach Steven Keshi is reported to have said Osaze Odemwingie didn't play according to instructions.
If that worn out excuse of "not playing to instruction" doesn't convince you about this man's limitations as a football coach, then surely the crudity of singling out a player that came in 20 minutes to the end of the match to blame for a poor match by the whole team should.
The action is also a vindication for those of us that insisted he needed a competent foreign technical supervisor to help him prepare the team for the World Cup and take over the team after to once again build a team of "Super" Eagles.
This isn't any new position, anyone reading me will know this has been my opinion since the completion of the African Nations cup, where the Eagles won the completion in spite of him, not because of him.
If the awful player selection and the poor man management isn't enough to convince anyone, surely his lack of technical depth should. This has been glaringly exposed to any honest person following the 2014 World Cup where top notch coaches have shown their mettle. Think not of the big teams, but the small teams with competent managers who have worked something out of nothing for all to see.
Take Carlos Quiroz for example. In the Iranian team he had a very mediocre set of players. But he's gotten them so organized and disciplined in defensive play and has curtailed any adventurous nature in them. Take it from me, they'd be beaten but they'd be a hard team to beat. That's what a good manager brings to the table. He looks at the squad he has and adopt a strategy to work around their strengths and weaknesses.
Pray, what does Keshi give to the Eagles? The still lack a distinct playing pattern and are so predictable in play. Yesterday, they were so one-dimensional it was painful seeing them play. The Iranians hardly broke sweat containing them. With all the possession they had, they simply didn't know what to do with it. The gaffer is suppose to direct them at that point to vary their play according to what he's seeing on the bench. Yet he has the guts to blame a player.
If the former NFA boss Kodjo Williams and a few other notable football pundits all had cause to say Keshi needed a Technically competent foreign coach to help him prepare for Brazil, doesn't that tell you something?
We do need a foreign coach. Not to prepare for competition anyway but to help build a new team.
The gentleman doesn't even have re-invent the wheel, There is a template for that. Think back to the period Nigeria hired a certain Clemens Westerhoff and 5years done the line, we had players that literally "walked" into Barcelona and Ajax first teams.
I rest my case.
