Former captain and coach of the Super Eagles Sunday Oliseh says he is interested in coaching the senior national team of Nigeria it he is handed the role.
His statement is coming a little more than a year after he declared in an interview that he will never coach the senior national team of Nigeria again owing to how he was treated in his first stint which lasted for just seven months.
“No, I don’t have the intention of ever coaching the [Super] Eagles again,’ Oliseh said on the 4th of April 2020.
“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 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.”
In an interview on Channels TV monitored by OwnGoalNigeria.com editorial team, Oliseh backtracked on his words as he seeks a route back into management since leaving his role as coach of Dutch side Fortuna Sittard in 2018.
“My country is my country, nobody can take it from me. You can make any comment you want to make, but I am first [a] Nigerian before anything else. So, if my country really needs me to help out and they ask me to come and do it, I will do it.”
“But I will not do it if I am giving the best of my knowledge for my country to work and somebody is just taking it ‘yes or no’ and then eventually we all fail.
“I resigned from the Super Eagles because I had decided that when I was sick, I was going to stop because I did not get any help from the federation.”
