{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"The foreign coach Nigeria needs! - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Vp9UvxtNn9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-foreign-coach-nigeria-needs\/\">The foreign coach Nigeria needs!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-foreign-coach-nigeria-needs\/embed\/#?secret=Vp9UvxtNn9\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The foreign coach Nigeria needs!&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"Vp9UvxtNn9\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sunday-oliseh.jpg","thumbnail_width":660,"thumbnail_height":400,"description":"No foreign coach has ever won the World Cup!   If that is a fact I find it totally unbelievable that some Nigerians are actually still suggesting that after the exit of Stephen Keshi what the country needs is a foreign coach to succeed him! Foreign coaches have served their purpose in our football history. Aggregated, the so-called experienced ones amongst them - Bert Vogts, Lagerbeck, Bora Milutinovic - all failed woefully. The few that succeeded, Westerhof and Jo Bonfrere, for example, were nobodies in Europe when they arrived these shores and used Nigeria to shore up their credentials and garner \u2018experience\u2019. Having had these foreign coaches with very limited results and started a new experiment with only Nigerians to handle the national team, the only reasons to go back would be either because the Nigerians have failed also or the country finds a foreign coach willing to guarantee to win the World Cup or refund the country\u2019s money for his contract. Otherwise, why would we choose to go back to a discarded failed formula?  With Keshi, Nigeria started the process of developing an authentic culture of Nigerian football. It will have its failures and shortcomings but those should not derail the cause! Through the decades, helped by exposure to professional football in Europe, Nigerian players have developed and several have become \u2018giants\u2019 in the game. What the country needed was to develop its coaching and administration next. Coaching was easier to start with because players with vast playing experience were coming through the ranks and acquiring coaching certificates that would put them in good stead to take over from the foreigners. With the entry of Keshi\u2019s generation, Nigeria arrived at that point and all Nigerians were in agreement that the era of foreign coaches and the siphoning of foreign currency under that guise were over! Keshi was to be the start of the evolution, not its end. He came, he saw and he conquered with a record of successes unmatched by any previous coach, foreign or local, even if his methods were not fully convincing. The next logical step should be to build upon Keshi\u2019s foundation, to look for another Nigerian who can take Keshi\u2019s experiment to a new level, and not a return to that which the country had discarded for good. Looking around the landscape of retired players, as those with the right background, experience and intellect to take Nigerian football to the next level, one image and name looms large. The only foreign coach Nigeria needs now is the young Nigerian that the NFF hired this past week. Those who claim he has no experience in coaching should examine the following facts and figures!"}