Sunday Oliseh Quits Job as Super Eagles Chief Coach

Sunday Oliseh 

NIGERIAN football followers woke up yesterday to the news that Super Eagles Chief Coach, Sunday Oliseh, has quit his job.

The Eagles’ Manager, who recently had a run in with his employers, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), following his ‘unsavoury’ comments in his twitter account, quit his job through the same medium in the early hours of yesterday.

The former Super Eagles’ captain, who took over from Stephen Keshi eight months ago, hinged his decision to quit the job on “contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players, assistant coaches and myself.”

He wrote: “I feel fortunate, blessed and eternally grateful for having had the honour to play, captain and coach this great nation of ours, Nigeria.”

Before the sudden turn of events, Oliseh had declined to meet with the NFF Technical Committee on Thursday in Abuja as scheduled, saying he wanted to use the time to travel to England to meet some of the players that would likely feature for Nigeria against Egypt in the 2017 AFCON’s qualifiers in

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Chelsea Trashes Man City 5 - 1 in FA Cup

Chelsea Fc today trashed Pellegrini's boy a whooping five goal to one (5 - 1) and here is what the coach had to say.

"I feel that we made a good 45 minutes and equalised the game and then in five minutes we throw away the game when we are attacking the counter attack.
"We are forced to do it (make changes), we could not play another day, we had six players injured so could not have more players fit for this game so we knew it was difficult to continue in the FA Cup."
The reporter asks: "So you blame TV and the FA for moving this game to today?"
MP: "Don't change my words. I think if we play on Saturday it is better for us because we play for England in the Champions League. We cannot take the risk to continue having injuries in the players we have and after that we play against a very good team."

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NFF appoints Emmanuel Amuneke as Flying Eagles Coach

The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed former u-17 team coach Emmanuel Amuneke as the new Flying Eagles coach after his heroics helped the under-17 Nigeria team to success in last year's FIFA U-17 tournament in Chile.

The news of his appointment was confirmed by the football body who passed a communique after it's executive board meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. Amuneke, who was named African Footballer of the Year in 1994 will be assisted by Kabiru Baleria and Emeka Amadi as assistant coach and goalkeeper trainer respectively.

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