Foreign coaches are scams, says Erico

Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Joe
Erico has revealed that the Super
Eagles need no services of a
foreign tactician to do well in
the round leather game.
Speaking on the milieu of the
ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea where
13 out 16 teams have foreign coaches, he said it was the
evidence that African football administrators have
inferiority complex and are greedy.
"That is how complex and greedy our administrators are.
The reason they deal with those foreign coaches is to
siphon money. It's a scam, Erico told Punch.
"They are not doing it for the development of the game.
How many expatriate coaches have won Africa Cup of
Nations?
"No expatriate coach has won World Cup for any African
nation. African football administrators don't have
confidence in their own coaches. They want a situation
where they can siphon money. They use the expatriate
coaches to siphon money."
Erico, popularly called Jogo Bonito during his active days
pointed out that the use of foreign coaches has nothing to
do with the technical depth of African coaches. He said
indigenous coaches have been breeding good players from
the grass-roots.
"If indigenous coaches don't work at home to produce the
players, there will be no players for the expatriate coaches
to work with. Go to the grass-roots and see our coaches
breeding these boys under the sun and in the rain, he
continued.
"After breeding these players somebody will now come up
at the national level and say expatriate coaches are better.
No it is not done.
"How many expatriate coaches do we have in our league or
the academies? What have we achieved with expatriate
coaches? With the number of expatriate coaches that have
passed through this country, where have they taken us to?
As far as I'm concerned, we don't have coaching problem,"
he concluded.
Courtesy: goal news
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