Coaching is the fundamental problem of Nigerian sports. It has become obvious in all our sports, football, basketball, track, table tennis and boxing. In the case of football, Keshi is not our problem; the problem is every other coach in the system. They supposedly groom players for national teams, so what we have today in the Super Eagles is not the work of Keshi, it is the work of club coaches, academies and everywhere else that football is taught. Players that cannot hold on to the ball, players that cannot play a combination of passes, players that take ill advised shots at goal, players that ball watch of a cross, and players that cannot create tempo. These are things that are taught at the lower levels of football and not at the elite level. But Keshi has some blame too. This team seems unprepared with set pieces, it is never threatening in corner kicks or free kicks around the box. This team never seems to find a weak spot to exploit in the opponent, we continuously play the entire field. Tactically, a well coached team must execute or seem to be trying to execute a plan. Watching the Eagles, there is no plan, they are just playing. In football, a team that cannot dictate tempo, is very unlikely to win. Under this coach, this team has never dictated the tempo of play, we are always chasing the game. A change is needed immediately, not because I think we have a better coach for now but we might get a better motivator now. Just like Keshi when he first took over as coach, he was able to motivate the same players that Siasia failed with. Relieve Keshi of the job and put in Amokachi for the last 3 games. The long term solution to our football failures or to our coaching problems is to honestly start a well developed coaching education program for the country. What we have now is not working and it is behind current teaching or coaching trends known around the world.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 04:57:20 +0000
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