A top official of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has threatened to expose Samson Siasia, if he continues to castigate the football house.
Siasia, who recently won bronze with Nigeria’s U-23 team at the 2016 Olympics, has said he is “done” working for Nigeria.
The coach revealed he has not been contacted by any staff of the Sports Ministry or Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), since he arrived from the Games.
“My next step is that I am done with Nigeria for now,” Siasia told Vanguard.
“You can’t keep going to a place where they don’t appreciate you. It does not worth it. Sometimes it is not about the money but the approach.
“They seem not to appreciate the sacrifices. I know how much I have sacrificed since the team began camping two years ago. How can you keep going to people who don’t appreciate you?
“It does not make sense, so I am done for now. I have to go somewhere else where they will appreciate what I have done and what I can do and pay me the respect that I deserve.”
In response, the unnamed official told OwnGoalNigeria: “We have endured Siasia’s excesses, he knows we have our own side of the story he is telling to the press. He shouldn’t forget that our recent spate of failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations was started by him.
“He is an ingrate, we gave him the chance to relaunch himself with the U-23s but he showed us he is still the same person, we know how some players were selected both for the Super Eagles in the two games he handled and also for the U23s, he should just keep shut.
“We have facts to show he was involved in some dealings that led to our failures at tournaments; as a matter of fact, go and ask any board member, we received more petitions about Siasia than any other coach, he knows it.
“If he doesn’t keep shut, we will shame him and end his coaching career, a team that should have won gold, he selected players based on favoritism and he wants us to celebrate bronze with him; we are wiser than that.”
Source: OwnGoalNigeria
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That so-called NFF official should be identified and brought in for questioning. He has a lot to tell Nigerians about the large-scale corruption going on in that Glass House. He's brewing this threat to keep the public focus away from them. PMB, if truly you are out for corruption, let the security agency bring that NFF official in.
ReplyDeleteOGA YOU CANT END HIS CAREER. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CAPITY TO DO THAT. AREYOU GOD?
ReplyDeleteIf you have such records about Siasia why do you continue giving him assignments? You guys at the NFF are nuts You hire a foreign coach and payment millions of dollars a month but your local coaches to pay their monthly salary is a big problem and yet you want Nigeria Football to move forward? Haba NFF!
ReplyDeleteWe know say our coaches dey collect bribe to select players, but you criminal officials dey also get 'cut'.
ReplyDeleteU all are fraudsters so SHUT UP!
Nff is always on the wrong side of history, can the names of these rogues and phone lines be published so Nigerians will know this faceless thieves. Pls don't kill siasia oh. Mmmmm.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of idiots! He should be grateful for being owed five months salary and given terrible working conditions? What is wrong with these jokers?! They think people they employ are their slaves???
ReplyDelete"unnamed official". You should have mentioned your name. No single coach has it good with NFF. The huge money you spent hiring a foreigner, spend half on Nigerian coach before complaining of them. You are bad administrators!
ReplyDeleteNFF shame on you for such baseless talk. which useless facts do you have, you think u can fool Nigerians by ur much propaganda? instead, u should praise Siasia for winning a mendal at all. You better amend ur ways now.
ReplyDeleteSo, all the countries that participated in the tournament must win gold...? So,failure to win gold medal should be blamed on a coach...? Currently Nigeria is being managed by a bunch of mediocres cutting across all sectors of the economy, including sports and governance... May God save the Nation...Well,as events are unfolding...
ReplyDeleteYou are an asshole, unnamed NFF official, for airing you and your employer's dirty laundry out here. Siasia did the fucking job -- won us a fucking medal. Despite everything you put him through, he still came out on top. You and that cocksucker Amaju Pinnick should go fuck yourselves. Incompetent motherfuckers.
ReplyDeleteWas that the reason for abandoning them in Atlanta, not paying their bills for meals and accommodation, arriving in Brazil very late almost at the day of their match,not having their sports wears prepared on time., unpreparedness from all angles, even the stupid sports minister said he is not aware they went for Olympics,he further asked what are they doing there and even recognized that they were suffering in the united States of Nigeria,when a sports minister is not even aware that Olympic was on so I wonder the kind of support you gave to the team since you were expecting gold.,... So it was siasia that caused all these... NFF you are disgrace to Nigeria
ReplyDeletethat idiot that ssid he/she will end siasis career is a lair u cant end it because none of u know how much he paid for coaching school or how he became a coach and u are not his God ok.
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