Super Eagles Coach: "Nigeria is Our Home", Sunday Oliseh Opens Up on Role He is Willing to Play – Legit.ng
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FCT, Abuja – Former Super Eagles captain and head coach, Sunday Oliseh, has said if the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) approaches him, he is willing to offer technical help to the men’s national team free of charge.
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The Super Eagles are currently without a coach following the resignation of former Nigerian international, Finidi George in June.
It remains to be seen whether the NFF will settle for a top-class foreign tactician over the class of '94 players to replace the former Enyimba trainer.
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Speaking in a recent interview with Elegbete TV Sports, monitored by Legit.ng, Oliseh, 49, was asked if he would take up the Super Eagles job in case he is offered.
The FIFA technical study group member replied:
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The ex-Fortuna Sittard of Netherlands manager added:
Legit.ng earlier reported that Oliseh criticised his compatriot, Mikel Obi, for some of the comments made on his podcasts.
Citing a popular 2023 interview with English football icon, Rio Ferdinand, where Mikel talked about ‘black tax’ — an unstructured financial burden usually placed on a successful person by members of their extended family, Oliseh berated the Olympic bronze medalist for ‘humiliating’ his family.
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Ridwan Adeola (Current Affairs Editor) Ridwan Adeola Yusuf is a Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng and a certified journalist with over 9 years of experience. He edited Politics Nigeria’s articles, was the Acting Editor of AllNews Nigeria and Fact-Checking Researcher (Africa Check). He received his HND in Mass Communication from The Polytechnic Ibadan. He received a Certificate of Achievement (Journalism Clinic’s Fix The Leak masterclass, 2021) and also completed Google News Initiative’s Advance digital reporting curriculum. Contact him at ridwan.adeola@corp.legit.ng.
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