Coach Stephen Keshi Resigns at the PINNACLE After Leading Super Eagles 2013 AFCON Cup

 

BIG BOSS COACH STEPHEN KESHI

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Nigeria’s national team head coach Stephen Keshi  may have resigned his job minutes after leading the team to win the African Cup of Nations tournament final match in South Africa.

Keshi’s Kaduna based Media Consultant, Emma Ado, confirmed the development and attributed the coach’s action to hostility from the management of Nigeria’s football federation, NFF over team selection and other issues he considers not important to Nigerias football progress. Some top N.F.F officials were aggravated that Coach Stephen Kehsi ignored their list of preferred players to feature as has always been the back room tradition leading to consistent mediocre performances in the past , instead he stuck with six home based players and 20 others  regardless of state of origin or tribe but ability of which one of them Sunday Mba paid him back with a golden performance in the tournament .  Many prior coaches in the past have fallen for thw quota system  and nepotistic tradition in the N.F.A/ N.F.F  leading to early exits and or poor performances over the years.

Meanwhile, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan today congratulated the Super Eagles for winning the Africa Cup of Nations title with a 1-0 final victory over Burkina Faso.

“President Jonathan thanks coach Stephen Keshi and all members of the team who have worked very hard…to make Nigeria the proud champions of Africa once again after 19 years of setbacks in the competition,” his office said in a statement.

“The President also believes that having conquered Africa, the new Super Eagles can go on to achieve even greater glory at the World Cup in Brazil next year,” it said.

Jonathan expressed appreciation to the South African government and the Confederation of African Football for a well-organised tournament and promised to hold a reception for the victorious Super Eagles in Abuja on Tuesday.

Nigeria ended a 19-year title drought with the victory over Burkina Faso at Soccer City in Soweto thanks to a late first-half goal from local-based player Sunday Mba.

It was a result that also took coach Keshi into the record books as he equalled the feat of late Egyptian Mahmoud El Gohary by winning gold medals as a player and a coach.

KESHI AND HIS SELECTION AND TACTICS VINDICATED !!