Enyimba International Football Club of Aba’s coach, Usman Abdallah, has expressed confidence in indigenous coaches, saying with proper motivation, they will produce better results than the foreign coaches the 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 two finalists.
Algeria had Djamel Belmadi and Senegal Aliou Cisse. French-German, Gernot Rohr, and French Alain Giresse coached Nigeria and Tunisia that played in the losers final.
Speaking on the need to look inward for football managers just like other countries in Africa are now doing, Abdallah said the reason the country’s football governing body has refused to give local managers opportunity is because of the sentiment that foreign managers will produce better results.
The former junior international, who has a France UEFA B Licence Certificate, UEFA A Licence in England, done courses in CAF, coached in Asia and France.
