TheCable

Seyi Akinwunmi, first vice-president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the federation on getting a coach for the Super Eagles.

Akinwunmi, a barrister, stated that there is no need to be in a hurry to get a new coach for the Super Eagles, as it is better to be patient and get the best possible coach out there.

“Nigerians will wait till the time we will have a substantive coach. I can’t say when. Really, that question needs to be directed to the NFF technical committee,” he told TheCable when asked how soon a coach would be employed.

“And we need to understand few things, too. It is not just about getting a coach. If we bring in a coach in from anywhere, the way Nigerians think is this: the day he loses or draws one match, he becomes a villain. The day he wins, he is a hero.

“So, there’s nobody you will bring in that there won’t be a divide. But it is better for us at this stage since we have learnt from the experiences we’ve had in the past few weeks to go to the root of the problem and take our time to solve the root of the problem to come up with a solution.

“Let us not just get a coach, or get one just because we need a coach… because we don’t have an urgency in the next couple of months.

“So, why not let us, within that time to get a coach, look through properly, to look at all the mistakes we may have made, solve them and even if Nigerians say they are not happy, we can point it out that you all asked us to rush but we didn’t. And that this is what we came up with. I think we just need to be patient.

“This short term and we must quickly do this, we must quickly win this, shouldn’t come. Especially now that we have time. Before we didn’t have time because we had to qualify and that was all we wanted at that time.”