{"id":3108,"date":"2022-04-09T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2022-04-08T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:12:50","slug":"nigerian-football-rising-from-the-debris-of-qatar-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/nigerian-football-rising-from-the-debris-of-qatar-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Football &#8211; rising from the debris of Qatar 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">I am drawing inspiration from the fountain of philosophy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2018Curse not the darkness, for underneath it are hidden treasures\u2019<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The above is not an exact quote. I have added my words to a quote whose origin I do not even recall as I write this.\u00a0\u00a0The words have been a nutrient to my understanding of life for decades, resurrecting at critical times when distracted from the higher blessings that come out of every disappointment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Admittedly, it has been hard to put behind the pain and anguish of Nigeria\u2019s failure to qualify for Qatar 2022, and to concentrate on what next to do to stabilize the flailing ship of Nigerian sports as a whole, and football, in particular.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2018Failure\u2019 has started to take its toll on the psyche of Nigerians and the number of victims is mounting, distracting even those not directly involved in football administration in the country from looking beyond Qatar at the greener pastures that lie elsewhere in the vast sports firmament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The distractions have been many and worrisome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The entire technical crew of 5 indigenous coaches, three of whom are ex-internationals of legendary status, have been consumed already, fired without the opportunity to re-apply or to appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All the other coaches in all the cadres of the national teams have suffered collateral damage. They may all have been fired!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Augustine Eguavoen, the temporary head coach of the Super Eagles, has resigned from his temporary assignment. He may have been returned to his previous position of Technical Director, a position higher in authority and responsibility within the football-house structure than that of coach that he temporarily held and \u2018failed\u2019 at. How that works out as a development strategy I cannot work out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It even gets more complicated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Until a few weeks ago, before the two matches against Ghana,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">one-time\u00a0<b>African Footballer of the Year<\/b> and very well-travelled Nigerian coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, was touted as one of the most qualified indigenous coach that could take over the job of the national team. He was, in fact, an anointed-coach-in-waiting of the <b><i>Super Eagles<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Then, to reinforce the coaching crew after the failure at AFCON 2021, he was added to the Augustine Eguavoen-led consortium of coaches as a support-act for the last two crucial matches against Ghana, an assignment that lasted less than one month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The two matches have now been \u2018adopted\u2019 as his own litmus test. The failure of the team has become his own failure as well, as his chances of becoming national team coach have now gone with the wind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">So, also have the chances of any of his other Nigerian ex-international colleagues. They are now considered birds of the same feather. Great African football players do not make great coaches. That will become the tune for another decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Then came another mind-blower.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Last week, the Federal Ministry of Sports met with the board of the under-fire Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. It was reported that they assigned the responsibility of proposing new coaches for all the national teams, including those that have been doing well, within a period of 5 weeks. From the report of the meeting, there is an obvious bias in the body-language of the NFF officials that they are leaning towards a foreign coach for the\u00a0<b><i>Super Eagles<\/i><\/b>. This is less than 6 months after sacking the last one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Meanwhile, the technical committee of the NFF is not a body of technical experts. Many are members of the failed board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Except, there has been a foreign coach in waiting, given the manner the teams\u2019 technical crews were sent packing, this is already an accident-waiting-to-happen. It is a hurried, medicine-after-death prescription.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Definitely, another foreign coach, so soon after the 6 wasted years of Gernot Rohr that were the foundation of the present poor state of domestic as well as international football in Nigeria, is not a well-thought-out-enough reaction to the present fiasco.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The issue of another foreign coach at this time is delicate. It will definitely get the full attention of those of us vehemently opposed to going back to that old, tested and failed route \u2013 hiring unknown, journey-man coaches without pedigree, or serious credentials, from Europe on the basis of the colour of their skin and the \u2018slavery mentality\u2019 that Whites are of superior knowledge and experience, without any evidence in our history that they achieved what Nigerians never did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">So, we live to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The football administration that has lasted almost 8 years and failed to deliver on its primary mandates of developing domestic football, winning international laurels and taking the senior national team to the World Cup, is now driving the responsibility to take us into the immediate future with less than 6 months to the end of their tenure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is preposterous. I just can\u2019t get it. Things do not add up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This is like returning to our vomit, adopting a process that has failed over and over again, and hoping for a different result! I\u00a0<b><i>tire<\/i><\/b>\u00a0o!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">At the end of the day, all the above are distractive to those of us that have chosen not to dwell in the pit of failure and grope helplessly in despair and frustration. Live\u2019s best treasures lie aplenty in the \u2018dark unfathomed caves\u2019, so, we shall not curse the dark places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The entire world recognizes Nigeria\u2019s potentials to become one of the greatest sports nations on earth, if only the country did the right things. After the debacle of Qatar, that\u2019s where the country should be heading to, converting the \u2018failures\u2019 into lessons and stepping stones, thinking new ways going forward, looking out for new ideas and fresh faces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In this quest, one mistake that must not be made again is to discountenance the twin \u2018towers\u2019 of History and Experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nigeria has a very rich history of foundational football administration, and grassroots football development from which football administrators, after the new elections into the board of the NFF in September 2022, can drink lavishly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In doing so, they will avoid the mistakes and pitfalls of the past, and chart a new path.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Experiences, positive and negative, become valuable weapons to have in navigating the minefields of the complex world of football. Those experiences cannot be bought in the marketplace. They are not taught also in the classrooms of Harvard or FIFA. There are still a few persons in Nigeria imbibed with that rich past, neglected and wasting, that can be of help in the process of charting that new path.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Finally, the world is a different planet from what it was even 20 years ago. Nigeria is now full of young, vibrant, smart, innovative and creative thinkers that can envision how to lift Nigerian sports above the present plateau where the country has remained for almost 3 decades, and threatening to go southwards. The country must identify and find them, create the opportunity for their participation in the process of change, and add them to the new \u2018mix\u2019 that will not be distracted or deterred by the fear or the pain of past failures, but challenge them to become the candles that can expose the treasures in the present \u2018darkness\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nigeria has a few months to think through a new future, and then act. Qatar 2022 is, but should not be, a distraction.\u00a0 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The country must rise above it, now, take useful lessons from it, and from the debris, start to make courageous, hard, painful but correct choices without which the present opportunity will be lost.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ydp33e883b4MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Without doubt, it is a daunting task and a great challenge. Football has the power to rise from the debris of\u00a0<b><i>Qatar 2022<\/i><\/b>\u00a0debacle to become a model of change for the whole country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am drawing inspiration from the fountain of philosophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Curse not the darkness, for underneath it are hidden treasures\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The above is not an exact quote. I have added my words to a quote whose origin I do not even recall as I write this.\u00a0\u00a0The words have been a nutrient to my understanding of life for decades, resurrecting at critical times when distracted from the higher blessings that come out of every disappointment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-football"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Football - rising from the debris of Qatar 2022. - Mathematical 7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/nigerian-football-rising-from-the-debris-of-qatar-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Football - rising from the debris of Qatar 2022. - Mathematical 7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am drawing inspiration from the fountain of philosophy.\u00a0  \u00a0  \u2018Curse not the darkness, for underneath it are hidden treasures\u2019.  \u00a0  The above is not an exact quote. 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