By Victor Enyinnaya on August 4, 2017

The process of hiring coaches for other national teams may run into hitches if the leadership of the NFF, its Technical and Development Committee stick to their gun of favouring certain coaches over others they view as non-conformists.

Daily Sports can reveal that the NFF is not ready to forget in a hurry, what it encountered while appealing to the Super Falcons and their officials after they won the last Africa Women Championship (AWC) trophy in Cameroun.

The administrators have vowed to subject whoever that would head Super Falcons technical crew to thorough scrutiny to ensure that a repeat never occurred.

“NFF bigwigs are yet to forgive all the actors in what they still described as the worse embarrassment they have ever experienced in their football administration years. The move to subject Super Falcons recruitment drive to water tight measures have been stamped and sealed, nothing would make them renege from that.“

The players of that all-conquering team would be greatly affected whenever invitation to the team’s camp opens. It won’t be so easy for most of them that are still in form due to their role in the past event to be part of the new team. The coach would be summarily instructed.

“NFF still nurses the deadly bruises and would start its vindictive mission from who handles the team. The process to sidetrack such coaches has already been perfected. It is not how it should be, but that is what would obtain because the body wants to cut its own pound of flesh,” it was gathered.

The highly placed source added that in the executive committee level, it was viewed as an external influence that was aimed at rubbishing the Amaju Pinnick led body and bring it to disrepute, stressing that if it was the period when government appoints NFF board, that incident would have instantly marked the end of their tenure.

According to the usual credible insider, the same would apply to other national team coaches. It is the same with the u-23 Eagles due to how the football governing body parted ways with Coach Samson Siasia.

“Though, the technical and development committee came out recently to debunk that there is no iota of truth in a media report (not Daily Sports) that it has selected their favourites to clinch the various coaching jobs in the various national teams, but it came after much inquiries and worries being expressed from different quarters. It was suspected that the denial was made to douse tension.”

It would be recalled that the Nigeria Football Federation last week denounced a publication which claimed its chieftains had not only handpicked Coaches for the U-15 National Team, but had gone ahead to share coaching positions in the various national teams among their friends and cronies.

Chairman of the NFF Technical and Development Committee, Chris Green, claimed the report was false, saying that at no time of recent, had any member of the NFF Executive Committee or Management forwarded names of coaches to him as an individual, or the Technical and Development Committee as a body, for employment into any of the National Teams.

“At the last meeting of the NFF Technical and Development Committee, a decision was taken to advertise the coaching positions in the U17 men and women national teams, U20 men and women teams, the U-23 men’s team and the Senior Women National Team (Super Falcons). A public notice to that effect has been prepared and will be published in two national newspapers in a matter of days.”

Green in a desperate mood to clear the air remarked that, the U-15 and the U-13 national teams are not full national teams in the real and active sense of the word, as they do not participate in any FIFA, CAF or WAFU competitions. They are grassroots projects for the discovery of talents into the main national teams.

Green said the Technical and Development Committee decided at its last meeting to empanel a number of coaches to take charge of the U15 National Team for an upcoming tour of Morocco, where the team will play a couple of friendly matches.

•Photo shows the Super Falcons

Source Daily Sports

Posted August 4, 2017

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