A former Super Eagles player, Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh, has expressed his displeasure of a foreigner taking over the reins of the senior Nigerian national team.
Oliseh spoke on Channels Sports where he insisted there were worthy home-based coaches capable of doing a better job.
”I am totally against having that role not being handed over to a Nigerian because we have qualified Nigerians who can do that job”, he said.
In January, the Nigeria Football Federation ,NFF, appointed Eric Chelle, a French-born former Mali international, to succeed Augustine Eguavoen, who had been serving in an interim.
Since taking over, Chelle has overseen five games for the Super Eagles, winning three, drawing two, and recording a zero loss.
He also criticised the Nigerian team for having captains who had limited playing time in the squad.
”This I want to call an anomaly, and it started when we started having on the bench sitting captains. You can’t have that, you can’t have your captain sitting on the bench’.
”In other words, you are saying it is an assistant that is leading the team. Super Eagles’ role is the most important in Nigerian football”, he said.
