Nff Goes Dumb, By Patrick Omorodion
A popular African proverb says that a bad workman quarrels with his tools. This means that an incompetent person who does his work poorly will usually blame it on someone or anything except himself.
This is the case with the managers of Nigerias most popular sport football, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. How else can one explain the constant changes of handlers of the senior mens football team, the Super Eagles.
Between the last AFCON in Abidjan, Cote dIvoire in February, 2024, the NFF has used four coaches to prosecute both the 2025 AFCON qualifiers as well as the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
Nigerians would recall that the NFF hesitated to renew the contract of Portuguese coach, Jose Peseiro but eventually did after he accepted a pay cut.
They gave him a target to get to the semi finals in the AFCON but he surpassed it and only lost the trophy narrowly to the host, Cote dIvoire. Peseiro asked for a pay rise but his employers, perpetually broke, couldnt afford it and he took a walk.