Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh says he will never coach the Nigerian national team again if given the opportunity. Oliseh said he will not accept the offer of managing the Super Eagles’ team even if given a second chance “I just couldn’t die on the job.”
The 45-year-old former Borussia Dortmund and Juventus midfielder was 8 months into his job as Eagles coach when he resigned due to contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages and benefits to his players, assistant coaches. He made this know when asked on a live video chat with Punch whether he has the intention of coming back to coach if he was given the opportunity. “No, I don’t have the intention of ever coaching the Super Eagles again,” he said. “I loved working with the boys, I love coaching my country, but the atmosphere around it was no longer healthy.
“I didn’t want the job anymore. Health-wise I was not feeling too good; secondly, we were owed salaries. I was spending money on my health and on my team. I just couldn’t die on the job.
“Truth is, we have a foreign coach now and from what I heard and know, he is being paid four times the wages Stephen Keshi and I were paid and these are two players (himself and Keshi) who won trophies for Nigeria.
“I’ve never heard Gernot Rohr complain about wages. Keshi, while he was coaching, was always complaining, when I was coaching for four months, I was unpaid, for six months my assistants were unpaid, so I had to leave the job; we were also being frustrated.” On his job, Oliseh qualified Nigeria to the CHAN tournament in Rwanda, qualified the country to the group phase of the 2018 world cup Qualifiers.
In his first game as coach of the Eagles in an AFCON qualifier, he managed an away draw against Tanzania. Oliseh last managed Dutch side, Fortuna Sittard after he was appointed in 2016.
But he was fired on 14 February 2018, after claiming the reason he was let go was that he refused to participate in illegal activities at the club.
