Ex-international, Dr Felix Owolabi (MON), has warned that the new Super Eagles’ manager, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, could be in for trouble in his new assignment.
Owoblow, who over the weekend, bared his mind on the state of Nigerian football in an interview he granted Sportsville, said he has fears that Keshi might end up going the way of Samson Siasia.
The Ibadan-based former Green Eagles winger, noted that Keshi might not perform any magic with the Eagles given the environment he is going to operate in.
He pointed out that what Nigerian football needs at the moment was a re-building process and not tasking a coach to qualify the nation for one competition or the other as the NFF has mandated Keshi to do.
“I just hope they are not bringing Keshi to kill him. Keshi has been mandated to take us to South Africa 2013 Nations Cup and the Brazil 2014 World Cup where they want him to reach the quarterfinals. If I were Keshi, I will tell them to keep their job because it is to me, a tall order given how down our football has gone.
“What we need now is to start a re-building process, to plan for the future, to correct the mistakes that has brought our football to where it is today, and no coach can build a solid team in the midst of competitions. As we all know, the problem of our football goes beyond coaching.
“The environment is not conducive for any coach to perform. Keshi needs to be very careful, he needs all the prayers to succeed,” Owolabi said. It would be noted that Keshi was last week named the new Super Eagles’ manager after the board of the nation’s soccer governing body, the NFF sacked Coach Samson Siasia for failing to qualify Nigeria for the 2012 Nations Cup in Gabon/ Equatorial Guinea.
Keshi is expected to face his first baptism of fire as new Eagles’ manager when Nigeria will face Africa’s team of the moment and giant killer, Botswana, in an international friendly at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin, on November 11.
Botswana had during the Nations Cup qualifiers, put up a five-star performance that saw the team beat Tunisia home and away.
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