Pinnick Wants More Overseas-Born Players To Represent Eagles

it is a good idea but he shouldn't join the leagues of those who will dictate to the coaches who and who not to play or not to be invited

it gud for then to come home n fight for shirt. who now may be we can get one Alaba or Agbonlahor

u lost good once and take the wack once abi 9ja

one thing is about knowing about the subject matter..another thing is to say things in a way that depicts you as a one who knows about the subject matter..why wont pinnick take of the job of convincing our players with Nigerian roots when it is evident that our coach will only wait for someone who can call him that he wants to play and he is also ready to part with some bucks...why cant amaju speak about the technical aspect as long as he knows what he is saying..even the FA chairmen in the western world when interviwed touch on all aspect of football..be it technical and administrative..the way i see it..it is amaju that is too sophisticated for the likes of keshi..he wants us to use quality players and not players who play just 2 games out of 11 in the austrian(not italy or spain oo)league

@Emotion i support you full time you know the game dont mind this novice here calling keshi name for no cause .this Amaju will fail if he dont take his time, he lacks administrative skills

@Emotion u just spoke my mind

Good for Nigeria

Now this is a president with vision and knows what he wants to achieve. Those against this move should please explain to us why they don't want want Nigerians born abroad to play for the national team. Our full support is with you Mr Pinnick to take our football to the greatest heights. Don't mind those "long legs" in the presidency. You have the right to invite FIFA if their interference becomes unbearable for you.

@Jadijadi, for me i want us to qualify, but i dont see it happening with Keshi. My mind is telling me Leroy will employ the same tactic used by Iran at the world cup because he knows when a team plays a defensive game against Nigeria (under Keshi), we always lose or draw!

@emotion. I agree with you to some extent.but you are missing the reason why Pinnick wants Keshi out. It is not a personal attack but rather based on how the team has been performing under keshi. There is need for improvement to meet up with current standard around the world.Keshi will not listen yo advice or recommendations from the technical dept. So, there lies the problem.

i can't take you seriously if you pray for your own country's downfall

Ghana, Man-U, Chelsea, Holland and every other countries just changed their coaches without the rancor that has befallen the nation. In our case, it's no longer a contract position, but an entrenched career position - where undue process prevails in its filling. This alone is the bane of our failure. I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. I PRAY WE FALL TO BOTH CONGO AND SA. Seriously, this anarchy should not be allowed to hold. It is stupidity by a cadre of illiterates who have hijacked the only hope we have in that country. I look to LeRoy to outwit keshi - that's a given .

@Emotion where are you coming from?

@Emotion well said.

@chuxinho best Coach in Africa, just because he is a Nigerian, if he is white man nahh

I will be writing a series on why Amaju will fail, it will take some time to finish the write ups and not everybody will understand the importance of my message. The job of the president of NFF is 90% administrative and 10% technical, but our president is the opposite. If you make me a president in the present situation in Nigeria my vision will take a back seat, all Amaju should be concerned about should be how to bring sanity to NFF and not about making foreign born players to play for us. How many foreign born will be interested in playing for us with the present state of our football? If Amaju cannot improve the commotion they caused trying to be president , our football is going no where, first thing first calm everything and everybody down then there will be progress, he's putting the cart before the horse, which is a recipe for failure.

@Emotion welldone folk u have said my mind tnks

@Emotion Agreed

@Emotion u have said my mind welldone folks

I don't know Panick, but so far he has exposed himself as a novice. I told people on this site that he has no clue, he was making noise about Keshi before he became president, now he has find out that it will not be easy to remove or replace Keshi. You don't have to be president to know that Keshi has no substitute in Nigeria and that we have no money to afford a foreign coach, his plan should have been to help Keshi achieve instead of conniving with the likes of Ikpeba and GARBA Lawal to destroy Keshi. You don't hate someone from afar , you gotta know them , know their problems before saying bad things about them, he'd already made up his mind to fire him before he became president , that was why it backfired. Panic's greatest problem is his approach to his job, the reason Lulu and Maigari succeeded was because they don't act like they were football guys, they were strictly about administration of NFF and not the technical aspect of the game. Talking about developing and training of a coach is left with the tech committee. Talking about inviting foreign born players at detriment of the local boys is not your job, you should be concerned with the welfare of players and coaches rather than what they do on the field. This guy will fail if he continues this way or refuse to toe the line of his predecessors.