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I would
like to approach this issue from a spiritual perspective while balancing it with
common sense. In 2001, the last time the Nigerian Super Eagles qualified for
the World Cup, it was this same Coach Shaibu Amodu that qualified us for it
against all odds. In fact, the then NFA (Nigerian Football Association) had
already given up about our qualification, sacked our incompetent French coach,
and basically placed Amodu there to while away the time as the NFA looked for a
more qualified (foreign) coach for the future. Against all odds, physical
expectations, and mental comprehensions, Amodu did his magic and Nigeria
miraculously was in the World Cup again for a third consecutive time (1994,
1998, and 2002).
Amodu
was much younger then, a successful coach of BCC Lions of Gboko, and the first
and only Nigerian coach to qualify Nigeria for the World Cup (maybe also the
first Black African for any African nation). This was unbelievable. A local
Nigerian coach takes Nigeria to the World Cup!!! Can that be true? When it was
time to take Nigeria to the African Nations Cup and World Cup the following
year, NFA started their drama as usual. They stopped paying the coach and
players their salaries, started questioning Amodu professionalism, and claiming
the players were no longer respectful. This affected the morale and
concentration of the team so much that they lost to Senegal in the Semi-Finals
of the African Cup of Nation.
The NFA
was so glad that they used it as an opportunity to get rid of Amodu and called
him a failure who had no control of his team. This was a man that qualified the
nation for the World Cup after all hopes were lost even in the hands of an
experienced and overpaid French coach. NFA claimed they needed a more
experienced (foreign) coach to take Nigeria to the World Cup. After working so
hard, they found no other creditable human being on the face of the earth other
than a misguided and an outdated Coach Festus Onigbinde, who was a mere
assistant coach of Trinidad and Tobago at the time. What an insult to the soul
of man!!!! Do you replace a head coach of Nigeria with as assistant coach of a
Caribbean team? Is NFA (now NFF) really interested in Nigeria winning the
World Cup or they are just interested in a meaningless coach that can help them
steal money through paperwork? Many Nigerian sport writers stupidly claim that
Onigbinde has been the only Nigerian coach to take us to the finals of an
African Cup of Nations in 1984. Is that to be compared with 2001, 2009, and a
Nigerian coach that has qualified Nigeria to the World Cup TWICE? This
obviously can not be progress even in the eyes of the Devil.
Nigeria
went to World Cup 2002 and did not even win a single match unlike before. They
only came out with a draw because England only needed a draw to move on and did
not want to take too much risk. Through this act, Nigeria placed a curse on
itself by not allowing a man to enjoy the fruits of his labors. Many
southerners felt that it was a case of the Edo coach slaving away to qualify us,
then a Yoruba or a WAZOBIA coach takes us to the World Cup to earn the glory
under the disguise for a need of a foreign coach. When 2006 came, God denied
us the qualification to the World Cup because a great injustice took place on
Nigerian soil and was never corrected. Instead of Nigeria moving forward in
time as a nation and in soccer, God took us back to 2001 in 2009 – a difference
of 8 wasted years of no achievement. We are back to Amodu again and still he
gave us the World Cup ticket a SECOND TIME. This is where Nigeria should have
been 8 years ago, but when you fail to learn, you are bound to repeat and waste
time.
I have
told my friends a year in advance that Amodu will qualify us for the World Cup
but he will be pushed aside for a European or a WAZOBIA coach to take us to the
World Cup under the deceit of more technical experience. Many of my friends,
even of WAZOBIA origins, agreed that Nigeria will make it to the World Cup 2010,
but disagreed that NFF (formerly NFA) will dump Amodu. Amodu was given a
contract to qualify us for World Cup 2010. This he has done, but the Nigeria
press is already talking and campaigning about a better coach to take us to the
World Cup.
Nigeria
is a nation that never learns. NFF has NO intention of giving Nigeria a coach
that is competent enough to win the World Cup. This is because they will have
to pay him so much that they can’t steal any money or get kickbacks. God has
shown us that HE has chosen Amodu for Nigeria. Anything other than this will
result in a Christian Chukwu, Festus Onigbinde, or Ladan Bosso, and only NFF
will benefit from it at the expense of the nation. Amodu, God has given you a
mandate like HE did in 2001, to go to South Africa and bring back the World Cup
to Nigeria. Let us all stand behind this great Nigerian. God can’t be wrong –
not twice by the same man. Let little David go kill Goliath for NIGERIA. UP
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
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