ormer Super Eagles defender, Taribo West, has backed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in its quest to hire a foreign coach for the Super Eagles, insisting that caretaker manager, Salisu Yusuf, is not ripe enough to lead the team. There have been calls for the former Kano Pillars coach to be appointed substantive Super Eagles manager based on his recent exploit with the team in the two friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg.
However, the ex- Inter Milan defender believes people clamouring for Yusuf retention are doing so for selfish reasons.
West said the tight nature of Nigeria’s World Cup qualifying group makes it imperative for NFF to get a foreign coach for the Super Eagles.
” I have watched with keen interest the debate on if Salisu Yusuf should be retained or not and my take is that he is not ripe enough to handle the Super Eagles in competitive games especially at this time when we are under pressure for missing two consecutive Africa Cup of Nations,” West told Owngoalnigeria.com
” The last two editions of the Cup of Nations we failed to qualify for was down to marginal technical error on the part of our coaches against superior coaches of our opponents. Therefore we can’t afford to make such mistake again.
“This is the World Cup qualifiers and with all due respect if we want to qualify from a group that has Cameroun, Algeria and Zambia we need a better coach than Salisu Yusuf.”
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