Eagles job: Money made us settle for Keshi

President of the Nige­ria Football Federa­tion, Amaju Pinnick has confessed that lack of funds was responsible for their settling for Coach Stephen Keshi as Super Eagles manager.
Though, he maintained that the choice was no mis­take on the part of the NFF, he noted that if they had the resources, they would have gone for a foreign techni­cal adviser in the mode of Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho or Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger.
Speaking on the BBC’s Focus on Africa pro­gramme, the NFF boss was categorical that a Stephen Keshi with enhanced ca­pacity, working together with a Technical Study Group headed by former Nigeria captain, Jay –Jay Okocha and with the ben­efit of the world –renowned ProZone match preparation software would, in aggre­gate, be better than any for­eign Coach.
“We made no mistake in re-appointing Keshi. In his first term, Keshi did a lot to encourage the boys in the domestic League, and the boy who scored our win­ning goal at the Africa Cup of Nations, Sunday Mba, was playing in the domes­tic scene.
“We don’t live in the clouds. If we wanted a foreign Coach, we would probably go for someone in the class of Jose Mourinho or Arsene Wenger. We don’t have that money pres­ently and we don’t want to be owing our coach.”
Pinnick said the Pro­Zone software, for which four NFF officials are cur­rently in the United King­dom for special training, would be of great help to the Nigeria national teams.
“In the past, we played matches blindly. We didn’t know enough about our opponents and we didn’t even know enough about our own players – their strengths and weaknesses. If we had the ProZone match preparation soft­ware before now, we prob­ably would have beaten France and reached the quarter finals of last year’s FIFA World Cup in Bra­zil.”