Mutiu Adepoju
Former Super Eagles player and La Liga Ambassador in Nigeria Mutiu Adepoju has pulled his weight behind the coach of the Nigeria senior football team, while hoping sports can improve in the country.
In an exclusive interview with everyeveryng, the Nigerian football icon stressed that race or colour is not a consideration in employing a coach for the national football team, or at any level at all.
Adepoju, popularly called “Head Master” stressed that those who think foreign coaches do better in handling the country’s football thing have a right to their opinions but there are not attachments to skin colour in dishing out professionalism.
“I don’t discriminate, whether we have them in foreign coach or in national coach, Nigerian Super Eagle can still do better. If we have them in foreign coach everybody should support him, whatever the coach wants. Like we have with Gernot Rohr now, the team is doing very well and we have very young players.”
He also said: “He has been in Nigeria for 4 years now and he has renewed his contract and I believe that by doing so, with time we will see a ver new Super Eagle.” “I believe that Late Steven Keshi is a Nigerian and he did very well, a country like Senegal had a national coach and the team did well. If a Nigerian coach is there and we give him all the support that you will give a foreign coach, I believe everything will go well.”
He concluded by saying: “We had Olise earlier, which things did not go well, then we have Amonike that has gone to coach a senior team outside Nigeria. Though I am not practice coaching for now, but I have a license. Basically, i don’t discriminate. “