Football
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF,has
decried a publication which claimed its chieftains had not only handpicked
coaches for the U15 National Team, but had also gone ahead to ‘share coaching
positions in the various National Teams among their friends and cronies.’
Chairman of the NFF Technical and Development
Committee, Barrister Chris Green, frowned at the said report, 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 National Teams, the
U23 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.
“As for the U15 National Team, that team and
the U13 National Team 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.
“As part of a recent agreement between the NFF
and the Federation Royal Marocaine de Football, the U15 boys were invited for a
couple of games with the Morocco U15 team in the framework of youth development
initiative. The persons so appointed are well aware they are to take charge of
only the tour of Morocco. Nothing has been decided on permanent basis. They
were also not appointed by either the NFF President or a Board Member as the
report claimed.
“We have stated clearly the eligibility
guidelines for the coaches to be appointed into the various National Teams and
oral, written and practical interviews will be conducted to select the best. It
is not an exercise that would be undertaken in secrecy.”
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