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I won’t coach Super Eagles again, says Sunday Oliseh

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Former Nigerian midfielder, Sunday Oliseh has vowed not to take up any managerial job with the Super Eagles.

Oliseh, who was appointed Super Eagles coach on July 15, 2015, after replacing former teammate late Stephen Keshi, who was sacked for allegedly applying to be the coach of Cote d’Ivoire while still leading the Nigerian team.

Oliseh, who announced his resignation due to the inability of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, to honour the terms of his contract.

In an Instagram live video, the former Borussia Dortmund and Ajax midfielder said he would never coach the Eagles again.

“No, I don’t have the intention of ever coaching the (Super) Eagles again. I loved working with the boys, I love coaching my country, but the atmosphere around it was no longer healthy.

“I didn’t want the job anymore. Health-wise I was not feeling too good; secondly, we were owed salaries. I was spending money on my health and on my team. I just couldn’t die on the job.

“Truth is, we have a foreign coach now and from what I heard and know, he is being paid four times the wages Stephen Keshi and I were paid and these are two players (himself and Keshi) who won trophies for Nigeria.

“I’ve never heard Gernot Rohr complain about wages. Keshi, while he was coaching, was always complaining, when I was coaching for four months, I was unpaid, for six months my assistants were unpaid, so I had to leave the job; we were also being frustrated.”

Oliseh stated that he had plans to take the team to the next level before he parted ways with his employers, the NFF.

“I had good plans for the team. You will notice that at a time I brought in (Wilfred) Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Kelechi Iheanacho, young players who are dominating now. I brought in a world-class goalkeeper (Carl Ikeme) because I felt the old breed were ready to leave.

“The same philosophy I used while with the Eagles was the same philosophy France used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

“Sometimes you ask yourself questions about Nigeria. You won laurels for the country as a player, you’re doing well as a coach, you were about qualifying for the World Cup and you’re unpaid for four months.”

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