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July 29, 2019
Enyimba International Football Club of Aba’s coach,Usman Abdallah, has expressed confidence in indigenous coaches, saying withproper motivation, they will produce better results than the foreign coachesthe country has always relied on to tinker the Super Eagles.
At the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations AFCON,which Algeria won by defeating Senegal 1-0; indigenous coaches coached the twofinalists.
Algeria had Djamel Belmadi and Senegal Aliou Cisse.French-German, Gernot Rohr, and French Alain Giresse coached Nigeria andTunisia that played in the losers final.
Speaking on the need to look inward for footballmanagers just like other countries in Africa are now doing, Abdallah said thereason the country’s football governing body has refused to give local managersopportunity is because of the sentiment that foreign managers will producebetter results.
The former junior international, who has a FranceUEFA B Licence Certificate, UEFA A Licence in England, done courses in CAF,coached in Asia and France.