Super Eagles defender, Kenneth Omeruo has said Finidi George has what it takes to lead the team.
Finidi is currently managing the Super Eagles on interim capacity.
The 53-year-old masterminded the Super Eagles 2-1 win against Ghana’s Black Stars last week.
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His side fell to a 2-0 defeat against Mali in their second friendly on Tuesday night.
Omeruo, who is one of the experienced players in the current Super Eagles side believed the former winger is the right man for the job.
“He(Finidi) has a very good relationship with the players. He’s someone we know, we respect, and he has every experience to lead us. I think he’s managed the team very well,” Omeruo told NFF TV.
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No need for talks, Our CLUELESS NFF SHOULD GET AMUNEKE ON BOARD ASAP and let finidi assist amuneke, nsien can be a third assistant for starters! That nsien is tight good.. anything than this will mean Nigeria will be out of qualification for world Cup yet again because of Nff incompetency! A white oyibo coach is good but time is short to know our players before June! NFFJAMBOREE WE CAN C… we might frankly speaking not go to yet another world Cup because of that Hugely incompetent Nff… IT IS AMUNEKE TIME AND DESTINY, ANY MANIPULATION WILL BE ANOTHER DISASTER… THAT NIGERIA TEAM IS A 4-4-2 AND 4-2-3-1 TEAM ALTERNATIVELY AT BEST,.. we can also wait for siasia ban to be cleared and reward him with the Super Eagle job as thank you for his many victorious team he gave Nigeria. Amuneke to b assisted by finidi or wait for siasia… time is at disaster-class and disadvantage for a foreign coach to get up to speed. We now need a miracle to go to the world Cup again. Very incompetent NFF.. over to you..
You have spoken well.
NFF IS THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IN NIGERIA NATIONAL TEAMS WE HAVE SAID IT BEFORE GIVE EMMANUEL AMUNEKE THE HEAD COACH OF SUPER EAGLE IMMEDIATELY
We need a foreign coach if we want to qualify for the WorldCup. Finidi did all he could and all he could do is play the same Peseiro tactics with zero discipline. Even against Ghana it’s clear they played better than us in the second half. Thank goodness for Lookman.
Dessers was just roaming around the pitch like Wi-Fi. He’s just not good enough to be called up ahead of Moffi. Awaziem Omeruo Collins should be replaced with better solid defenders like Ogbu and Okoli. Finidi can only be an assistant at best to a foreign coach. Otherwise we might as well say goodbye to qualifying for the WorldCup.
In the absence of Osimhen, Moffi and Lookman should be leading Nigeria attack.
Omeruo is driven by personal and not national interest. You have tried your best, but toi better quit the national team now because you are a spent horse and have no pace again.
You are correct. He is protecting his personal interest to the detriment of the national
Very correct. He has nothing to offer the team. He is saying this he will have a grip on any indigenous coach for invitations…
Nigerian coaches like I have said un my previous posts in the same matter will neve succeed or respected by the players both home and abroad…t
We will lose the respect of eve. The foreign based players and those born abroad.
What do they have to impact on the players. Finidi or Amuneke doesn’t have what it takes to handle the super eagles… let’s face the facts.
Eagles needs a foreign touch all the time… they need excellent management, better tactical exposed coach… some coach with the fear factor…who can instill or install tactical and technical discipline like the German team
Omeruo’s lack of pace has caused us so many matches,each time he plays he is beaten for pace,it’s time for him to call it quits in the team,he contributes nothing and only cause us matches due to his snail pace.i thought by now we would have flushed out unproductive players,like awaziem,Collins,dessers,omeruo,Musa,chukwueze,etc and replace with better active players with ambition,what we have now are mostly players that are playing for caps.
if the NFF is wise, let the association not listen to sentiment from the public, but appoint competent coach who is sound technically and have a good record to manage and produce for us a sound team that can compete world wide. Such coach selection should not be based on sentiment, colour, or race but on the ability to produce desire results. All of us should remember that while we were losing to Mali Eagles yesterday, South- Africa were playing 3-3 with Algeria team in Algiers and this is the we will meet in two month’s time precisely June 3, 2024. We don’t have time. The time for the appointment is now. God bless Nigeria.
if the NFF is wise, let the association not listen to sentiment from the public, but appoint competent coach who is sound technically and have a good record to manage and produce for us a sound team that can compete world wide. Such coach selection should not be based on sentiment, colour, or race but on the ability to produce desire results. All of us should remember that while we were losing to Mali Eagles yesterday, South- Africa were playing 3-3 with Algeria team in Algiers and this is the team we will meet in two month’s time precisely June 3, 2024. We don’t have time. The time for the appointment is now. God bless Nigeria.
With my calculator 2014 to 2024 is ten years .. den add the those days he played in youth team and clubs .
Wen other countries are bringing guys of age 17 up to the national team .. even by now he shud be afraid to fall on his limb now .. or to head the ball in flight. But for penalty he can take good one . His last game shud be against Mali . Conclusion.
No room for Clueless Finidi and Serial Failure Amuneke in the national team. Opportunist and lobyist Amuneke should go help Heartland win the league before being considered as a coach worthy to handle the U-23 or CHAN
This Omeruo guy has a dubious character and cannot be trusted!
This useless statement has just shown what kind of person this Omeroua is and if I was the manager in charge he will never play for the SE again!
This his statement screams of one thing and one thing only, Me! Me! Me! – This is a selfish and self centered man who only cares about himself – his ego, his benefit, his gain! This guy cares not one jot for Nigeria or Nigerians!
This is a guy who is definitely no longer SE material, he is too old, too slow and was only just about good enough in his absolute prime about 10-15 years ago, no longer making the starting 11 and just about getting called up as squad filler and only because it is Nigeria – In any other or maybe most other progressive footballing nations, this guy would have been kicked into international football retirement many many moons ago!
Now here he is, trying to take advantage of that gorimapa clown who is trying to become the SE’s manager, kkkkk- I laugh in swahili! A person like this Omeruo does not give a jot about the happiness of football loving Nigerians as long as he sees any opportunity to use that dense Finidi’s head to get back in the squad, he’s taking it, regardless of consequences or ramifications! That SE team that that clueless Finidi fielded yesterday will NEVER win a single game even if they’re playing for the next 100 years and will very quickly become the weeping boys of world football and completely soil our great name – Nigeria
This selfish dullard is wishing away the SE’s time and fast forwarding things to the world cup so that he can use Finidi’s head and become a starter again and by so doing, condemn the SE’s into a wilderness of epic mediocrity so deep that they may NEVER find their way back among the relevant and progressive footballing Nations of the world ever again!
Omerua! shame on you! You think we are a nation of fools who won’t see through your dumbass charade ba? – You are not serious and you have a second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth think coming up! Yes there are no doubt plenty of mugus among the numbers but we still have people that can smell your BS from 1000 Miles away!
Get out of it! mtcheew, yeye dey smell!
@Field my Bum, I agree with you on this. Omeruo is not serious. We need younger defenders.
U mean am??? Dat same bum wen batty backdoor raiders don rip to shreds and you still dey use am present yer case?? Kai! O boy you rugged o! kkkkk!
Hahahahahaha ……lol
Some comments here is just so ridiculous. A players is stating his opinion of the coach and some morons are talking about him making a case for his place in the team. Some of you are just funny
Finidi should let go before it gets too late, judging from this two matches he handled shows that he still need a lot to learn. Super Eagle is not an experiment ground.. A coach that isn’t flexible, the same thing I always complain about pessiero is the same thing I noticed about Finidi, in ability to twist or change the dynamic of the game when things are not going your way.. I’m not surprised he used the same formation to that of pessiero, this two lack flexibility when it comes to changing on formation in the field of play.. If NFF want to continue with their experiment they should try out Emmanuel Amunike since we all are clamouring for indigenous coach’s, but if you ask me I will go for Pitso Mosimane, he has proven it all, well experienced, can hold his own when it comes to game reading.. He is so far the best coach to have come from African soil. What make it unique is that he is affordable… Thanks
Nigerians and speculations and assumptions. That’s why the country will never move forward, imagine all the negative comments about a player that has served this country. And making a recommendation makes him a selfish players. Well na una way, no love among Nigerians but negativity. We take pride in bringing ourselves down.