Former Super Eagles
coach Sunday Oliseh has again made shocking revelations about his time as the
coach of the team. He gave detail account on Sunday via his Twitter handle with
a link to his blog, SundayOliseh.tv.
Oliseh resigned in
February after only seven months on the job. The former Eagles captain who left
abruptly cited unpaid salaries and poor working conditions as reasons for
leaving the job.
Oliseh said he had
quite a difficult time with the Nigeria Football Federation, with some senior
players like Mikel Obi, Vincent Enyeama and Victor Moses.
Of his near-death he
wrote, “One day whilst coaching the Super Eagles in Abuja stadium prior to the
Burkina Faso game, all of a sudden I felt dizziness, light headedness, headache
and could barely stand. I managed to finish the session before calling on the
doctor into my room who was clueless to what was happening.
“From then on it was
sleepless nights, loss of appetite, high blood pressure and before I knew it I
started losing weight.
“After several visits
to doctors abroad nothing was found though the doctors found anomalies they
couldn’t pin point the actual illness to.
“For weeks I was bed
ridden, lost 7 kilos and could barely walk 5 metres without sitting down. My family
was petrified and all feared the worst. One thing was for sure though: had I
not taking that evening flight to Germany when I did, there was a strong
possibility of a far worse outcome. Thank God for his mercies.”
Oliseh also took
another dig at the NFF President Amaju Pinnick insisting the FA boss made false
claims regarding coaches being paid up front.
He wrote, “On the day I
was unveiled, the very vocal president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick boasted to the
world that he was going to pay me 6 months’ salary in advance, we were never
ever going to be owed as he had procured sponsorship from Zenith Bank, that he
knows I am the African Guardiola etc. These were declarations that not only
added unnecessary pressure on us but made us hated by certain quarters as
‘prima Donnas.’
“We now know that, that
was a ploy to make the world falsely believe that I was giving all the tools to
succeed whilst intending to eventually starve us of tools to succeed in reality
to have a scapegoat and employ his dream foreign coach for obvious reasons, as
was tried failingly recently!”
Oliseh insists that the
noise made by the NFF on the salary may have pushed kidnappers into targeting
his family members.
“In October 2015, with
the belief that I had millions from the NFF, kidnappers attacked a family
member of mine’s home in Lagos, but thanks to God the intended victim was not
at home.
“Shaken at the news, I
called Mr. Amaju to inform him of my displeasure of his false public
declarations in my regard and there and then the seed of resignation started to
grow in me. Is this worth my peaceful family suffering?
“I signed my contract
as Chief Coach of the super Eagles in July 2015 and was paid in August for July
and August but did no longer get any payments till January 2016. My assistants
were worse off as they received just a month’s pay as at January 2016. The NFF
and its allies in public claimed otherwise.”
On the NFF technical
committee he wrote, “The moment Ayansi was replaced as head of the infamous
technical committee by Mr. Chris Green, we all knew that disaster and chaos was
on the way.
“Chris Green is a man
who late Stephen Keshi almost beat up just midway into the 2013 AFCON adventure
in South Africa and eventually was going around all of Rwanda telling all who
cared to listen that he won the 2013 AFCON for Nigeria and the 2014 World Cup
qualification and not Keshi.
-Punch
No comments:
Post a Comment