Ex-Eagles Striker Tasks Coaches On Tactical Ability

Former Super Eagles striker, Jonathan , Akpoborie, has identified lack of tactical know how as  a major challenge confronting Nigerian a coaches.

Akpoborie who stated this in an interview with sports journalists in Calabar, Cross River State said that no Nigerian coach would ever succeed in the senior national team because sentiments to be cloud their sense of judgment, pointing out that the coaches lacked the necessary tactical ability to do the job well.

According to him, the national team needs a foreign coach.

“I do not think the problem of our football is players’ commitment because the whole issue boils down to the fact that we do not need an indigenous coach at this moment”, he argued.

He noted that Stephen Keshi and Samson Siasia were great coaches, adding that coaches still have deficiency in the tactical aspects of the game.

“I am holding on to my opinion that it is premature for a Nigerian to handle the Eagles at this moment.

“At present, our league is the worst in the world. The quality of our players is so low that no body enjoys watching them”, he said.

He further explained that the tactical deficiency had also reflected on the country’s continental competitions.

“We must organise our league very well. It took Jurgen Klinsman to change the fortunes of German Football with their FA due to his suggestions and the country is better now.

But I know the NFF want solutions to the myriad of problems surrounding our football but they also have to be patient as well.

On the Nigeria dream team, he said that it was wrong for Nigerians to look for football redemption from the team because the players cheat in age declarations.

“How can one explain the fact that a player who had played in the league for six seasons is under-23. Does that mean such player started playing at age of 16?”, he asked.

He urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to screen out most of those players who falsified their ages to feature in competition.