BY JOE APU
SUPER Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has said he is under pressure to quit Nigeria coaching job following the dismal performance of the team at the African Nations championship in Rwanda.
Oliseh, according to ripples.com.ng yesterday revealed that he was receiving pressure from friends and family to quit the job and focus on his health, stressing that he hoped to meet and discuss with his family before taking his final decision.
The Eagles defeated Niger 4-I in their opening game, managed a 1-1 with Tunisia before losing 1-0 to Guinea to crash out of the competition.
Meanwhile, his foreign based players had threatened to boycott Nigeria’s next match against Egypt in March.
The Eagles will battle Egypt in a double header in the 2017 Nations Cup qualifier billed for March but the precarious position the team found itself made the quest for the ticket more difficult.
“The players are very angry that their last match bonuses have not been paid since their last game against Swaziland on November 17, 2015 and have promised not to show up for subsequent matches,” an official of the team informed Ripples Nigeria.
It would be recalled that the CHAN Eagles who just crashed out of the African Nations Championship also lamented the non-payment of match bonus and camp allowance since December. After beating Niger 4-1 in their opening game, the League Management Company (LMC), operators of the Nigeria Professional Football League handed a cash gift of $10 000 to the 23 players and officials in Kigali.
However, Super Eagles media officer, Toyin Ibitoye when contacted in Rwanda said there was no truth in the story. “There’s no truth in that story. Please discountenance it. How can anyone be spreading such rumour when Coach Oliseh is already working out plans for the match against Egypt. That online story is unrealiable.”
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