GERMANY 3, NIGERIA 2. Nigeria out of Egypt 2009 with only 1 win and 3 losses.
He was warned not to take the job, by no less than Segun Odegbami among others.
Having gotten respectable silver medals at the Under 21 soccer tournament in 2005 and the 2008 Olympics, skies seemed the limit for this obviously thorough minded Nigerian ex-international coach.
He had soooo many enemies within Nigeria's soccer establishment who were simply waiting for him to fail, and fall.
Why he had to settle for this U21 side I cannot fathom. They were not strictly his boys, so the loyalty factor may have been at a minimum, especially when he removed the erstwhile captain, one of the acclaimed Yemi Tella boys from 2005 Under 17.
Now he will have to be lumped together with other 'local coaches' when the debate about Foreign Coaches inevitably resurrects.
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