The Nigerian Football Federation’s (NFF) appointment of an indigenous coach for the senior national team is fait accompli in the light of the current economic realities. But the most difficult part of the pact is the requisite freehand, respect, and enabling environment that had erstwhile been the exclusive ‘privilege’ of expatriate coaches, CHRISTIAN OKPARA writes.
Environment, they say, plays a huge role in shaping the outcome of a project. An individual, who gets all the support he needs to accomplish a given task, often makes a success of that venture, even when that particular task seems daunting.
Conversely, when the basic requirement for the execution of that task is denied, the individual is almost always bound to fail no matter how he tries. Such is the life of a football coach saddled with the responsibility of leading a team to attain certain targets.
On March 2, 1990, in Algiers, the Super Eagles suffered…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
