Find A Coach Better Than Keshi - Danagogo To NFF

Nigeria’s sports minister, Tammy Danagogo, has strongly recommended the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) not to employ a lesser coach than Stephen Keshi.

Tammy Danagogo

The saga with Keshi’s contract has been unresolved for months. According to the latest updates, the football body offered the Nigerian coach the conditions, which he found unsatisfactory. The Super Eagles former captain even called the document a “slavery contract”.

According to Vanguard, Danagogo said the NFF should find a better option for the Eagles in case they fail to agree on the terms with Keshi. Someone like Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho or Bayern Munich’s Pep Guardiola.


The minister was quoted as saying:
“What I have urged the NFF to do is to make sure that should Keshi not be given the job, a coach with a lesser pedigree than Keshi should not be employed. I have said we should encourage our local coaches,” Danagogo said.

“Many have argued that presently Keshi is the best we have for now, while others are of the view that he has done his best.

“What I am saying is this, if Keshi declines the job, let’s look for another competent hand from the home front. But if we must get a foreign coach, then we must get the best hands not just any foreign coach.”

“And when we say the best hands, we should be looking at coaches in the class of the Jose Mourinho’s of this world, Pep Guardiola… Those are the kind of coaches we should be looking at.
“But if we say Keshi is the best hand locally, I am not saying we should give him the job, but what we can do is help our local hands get better by sending them to refresher courses to make them better.”

Meanwhile Keshi, who led the national team to the championship in the 2013 African Cup of Nations, is reported to have until Tursday March 12, to reply to the NFF over the offered contract.