{"id":19930,"date":"2024-03-02T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/super-eagles-odegbami-tells-nff-who-to-appoint-as-peseiros-replacement\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T08:02:46","slug":"super-eagles-odegbami-tells-nff-who-to-appoint-as-peseiros-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/super-eagles-odegbami-tells-nff-who-to-appoint-as-peseiros-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles: Odegbami tells NFF who to appoint as Peseiro\u2019s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Nigeria international, Segun Odegbami, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to look inward for an indigenous coach to handle the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Odegbami made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Jose Peseiro had in a farewell message on his official X handle on Friday, thanked the NFF and other stakeholders for the opportunity given him to serve.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Emmanuel Amuneke, Sunday Oliseh and Augustine Eguavoen have all been linked with the Super Eagles job following Peseiro\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the development, Odegbami said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless we want to be enslaved forever, in our colonial mentality where we think that only the white can coach us to success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll around us, we hear about some Nigerians who are excelling in all fields of endeavours and they are leaving the country to go and help other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is not a rocket science, but a simple game, we have lots of Nigerians who have all the qualifications to take us to any level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I won\u2019t suffer from colonial mentality again and enough of foreign coaches, now, it\u2019s time for a Nigerian Coach to handle our national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cPeseiro did not resign as the story is being peddled, his contract ended and it was not renewed, end of story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles: Odegbami tells NFF who to appoint as Peseiro\u2019s replacement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international, Segun Odegbami, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to look inward for an indigenous coach&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1267,9355,1558,160,869],"tags":[873,180,1270,9356,1562,201,870],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nff","category-odegbami","category-peseiro","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-nff","tag-odegbami","tag-peseiro","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}