AS uncertainty surrounds the sack of the Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia over his failure to qualify the country for the Africa Cup of Nations final by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), former national team midfielder, Daniel 'The Bull' Amokachi has declared his interest in coaching the national team.
Amokachi said on Monday Night football show on Supersport that he is as qualified as any other interested coach to handle the Super Eagles anytime the post is declared vacant.
According to the USA 94 star, he has what it takes to be next coach of the Eagles going by his experience as a player, former national team assistant coach and a certified coach who is also and instructor to the bargain .
Amokachi who also revealed that the immediate past Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu is interested in the job said,'' I, Daniel Amokachie is interested in Super Eagles job, I have worked in various areas in the past, I have won WAFU cup with arguably unknown players, played at the World Cup, have coaching certificate, so who says I am not qualified or cannot coach the Super Eagles,'' he asked.
The former Everton player addded, ''are you saying Stephen Keshi who qualified an unknown Togolese team to the World Cup is not qualified or Amodu Shuaibu who also qualified the country for the world cup cannot coach the Super Eagles, so we are all interested and as for me I will apply for the job once it is time to apply.
It will be recalled that another former Super Eagles midfielder and captain, Sunday Oliseh has also shown interest in the national team job.
Meanwhile,FORMER Chairman of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima has profe solutions to the recent dwindling fortunes of the national teams, the Super Eagles and Super Falcons.
To him the issue should be treated with utmost care and those that are knowledgeable in the game of football should rally round to find lasting solutions to this mirage of problems on time to save the game from total collapse.
"Since I am not an insider, I am not privy to what is happening in the Nigerian Football Federation. It is somebody that is involved in the day to day administration of football that would be able to tell you what the problem is. I have been out of the scene for six years so I will not be able to know what exactly is happening.
"Yes we are all disappointed with the current situation as regards football in our country but it is normal in football and it happens in sports generally. What is important for us is to get ourselves together and sit down and see what we can do to address the issue.
"This can only be done by getting those people who are knowledgeable in the game. Millions of Nigerians who are out there can offer suggestions and are even more knowledgeable than me and have seen it all. What is important is for us to try and win peoples' confident at the moment.
"The Football Federation has the responsibility of trying to win peoples' confidence for now and try to prove the ability to run the game in the country. The people have lost confidence in what is happening today. I think we have to restore our confidence before anything is done.
On the recommendation of the NFF Technical Committee who called for the sack of Super Eagles Chief Coach, Samson Siasia for failing to qualify the team for the 2012 Africa Nations Cup, Galadima stated that Siasia should not be totally blamed for the failure but Nigerians should accept the failure as a nation and try to bounce back from the disappointment .
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