Foreign Coach: Ogunjobi raises alarm on 419 agents

Category: Sports Published on Saturday, 21 November 2009 01:49 Written by David Ngobua Hits: 507

As names of some of the prominent expatriate football coaches continue to be linked with the coaching job of the Super Eagles, chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation technical committee, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi has said the federation has not contacted any foreign coach and so those been linked with the plum job should be careful before they would be duped by some unscrupulous individuals who are masquerading as agents of the football house.

Speaking yesterday in Abuja, the technical committee chairman said Amodu remains the handler of the senior national team and no foreign coach has been lined up or contacted by the football federation.

He therefore sounded a note of warning to all coaches not to be deceived by greedy football agents who claim to be working on behalf of the federation and have been asking the coaches to pay hefty sums of money, if they would like to land the Super Eagles job.

“I want to seize this forum to sound a strong warning to all coaches in this world. I have been getting phone calls from coaches who want to know whether we are looking for a foreign coach. People have been calling them and they have been reading on the pages of newspapers that their names have been penciled down for Eagles job. People have been calling the coaches and asking them to bring money if they want the job. I have telling them that is not the case. We are yet to take a decision on that”.

He said it is only the Nigeria Football Federation that has the power to hire a coach for the national teams and so the coaches should immediately discard anything they have been reading on the pages of newspapers.

“These coaches being mentioned have been calling me to know the gospel truth. They want to know if they are being considered by the NFF but I keep telling them it is not true and they should not make the mistake of giving money to anybody in the name of Super Eagles job”.

“They want to know the gospel truth because these people have been calling them and asking them to pay money. I have said it repeatedly that whoever gives out money is doing so at his own risk”.

Ogunjobi said the technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation would meet next week and one of the issues to be discussed would be coach Amodu’s contract which ends with the Africa Cup of Nation’s in Angola.

 “Like I told you earlier on, we of the technical committee would be meeting next week. We would look into the report Amodu has submitted before we would know the next line of action. A decision would be taken only after the technical committee’s meeting” he stated.