A former Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Association, Kashimawo Laloko, has slammed the president of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick for saying indigenous coaches will no longer be considered for the Super Eagles.

Pinnick said at the 18th Annual Africa Business Conference of the Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, “We are now going to start shopping for a well-grounded and qualified foreign coach to tinker the team. Enough is enough.”

Laloko, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Monday, said the performance of Stephen Keshi and Sunday Oliseh when they managed the national team cannot be used to judge Nigerian coaches and added that Pinnick’s statement was an insult.

“The NFF president said enough is enough for indigenous coaches and my question is, ‘Who does he know in coaching in Nigeria to insult us, saying enough is enough?’ Who have they trained and developed? For me, it’s an insult to coaches in this country for anybody to get up and say ‘enough is enough, I won’t invite indigenous coaches again’,” Laloko said.

“We’ll wait for the person he wants to bring. I’ve worked with at least three (NFA) general secretaries and four foreign coaches. The only foreign coach who added to what I knew was Philippe Troussier. I don’t know what type of coach they are going to bring. I worked with Thijs Libregts, Bora Milutinovic, Johannes Bonfrere and Troussier and they didn’t know anything different from what Nigerian coaches knew.

“The NFF sent some coaches to England for training, what did they bring? All I can do is to wish them the best of luck. That statement means Pinnick has no respect for us and it is very insulting for him to tell us enough is enough.”

Laloko, who is the Director of Pepsi Football Academy, added that nobody can write off Nigerian coaches.

THE Nigeria Football Federation has thrown more light on how Sunday Oliseh, who resigned his appointment as Super Eagles coach last week was engaged for the plum job. The football house explained that Oliseh’s engagement was ‘exhaustively’ undertaken, with the best of intentions.

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