The former Nigeria player has said that no indigenous coach is good enough to manage the country’s senior national team.
In the wake of Nigeria’s poor outing in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers and speculations whether coach Stephen Keshi’s contract
as Eagles manager will be renewed or not, former international
goalkeeper Emmanuel Babayaro has said the former Mali and Togo gaffer is
not the right man to lead country’s senior football national team.Keshi had resigned from his role after Nigeria’s loss to France in the second round but later denied saying he only ‘bid’ his players farewell because he wasn’t sure if his contract would be renewed
According to Babayaro, he is not assured that the ‘big boss’ is the best person to manage the Super Eagles.
"I don’t think Keshi is the man for the job. I never thought any Nigerian coach is the right person for the Eagles,” africanfootball.com.
"It has nothing to do with their abilities as coaches. As coaches they may be terrific, but I have always maintained, an average Nigerian, myself inclusive, we are very sentimental people and football and sentiments don’t go together.
"That is why we have this situation where Keshi never invites the best hands, for one sentimental reason or the other.
"On a good day, somebody else without sentiments would have invited every other person.
"We have to bring the best players. They will create competition which at the end of the day makes every other player better,” he concluded.
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