New coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro is struggling to pass his ideas, tactics and message to the players of the Nigerian team due to his poor grasp of English language.

The Portuguese coach isn’t fluent in his use of English which is what most of the players understand and usually relate with. Most times the coach relies on FC Porto defender Zaidu Sanusi who speaks and understands Portuguese to help pass his message across.

In the game against Portugal, newly invited Boavista defender Bruno Onyemachi was relied upon even though his understanding of Portuguese isn’t as good as that of Zaidu Sanusi, who has been in Portugal since 2016.

” It’s a problem when you don’t understand what the manager wants you to do due to language. It’s part of what we are facing with Jose Peseiro. Some times he speaks to us in Portuguese and we have to rely on Zaidu to help out. When he understands English properly, we will no doubt interprete his tactics, messages and ideas better”, a player of the team told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

The player who spoke on the conditions of anonymity however praised the coach for his willingness to improve in his fluency in English saying it’s getting better by games.

” He is really improving but in matches and pre match talks the tension sometimes makes it hard for him to pass his ideas but you can see that he is trying and hopefully he will be fine in a few months time”, he rounded up saying.

The international friendly game between Nigeria and Portugal which was played in Lisbon on Thursday wouldn’t have gone ahead if not for the intervention of coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro.

Players of the Nigerian team have only been paid their match bonus once in three years with bonuses for over ten games still unpaid. They were ready to down toll and not honour the game until they get a commitment from the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Ibrahim Musa Gusau.

Gusau didn’t travel for the game like some other back room staff of the team citing paucity of funds. The players were left disappointed as the game would have afforded them the chance to meet the him and table some of their problems and way forward before the start of competitive games next year.

In his absence, they decided to make thei case by snubbing the game but were talked out of it by Jose Peseiro, whose idea it was for the game to be played against his country of origin. His intervention saved Nigeria from what would have been a monumental disgrace at the world stage.

Peseiro told the players that he hasn’t been paid as well and pleaded with them to give the new president time to fully take stock of the situation he is in before taking any further step. He said he is aware that measures are been put in place to clear his salary and the bonuses of the players.

The international future of the rising star of the English national team Bukayo Saka was at some point contested for by the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Saka has since become one of the trusted lieutenants of coach Gareth Southgate but before making his way into the senior national team set-up of England, Nigeria tried to lure him to the Super Eagles.

Eligible for Nigeria through his parents, the Arsenal winger was first spotted by the Nigerian team selectors shortly before he made his debut for Arsenal as a 17 year old. He was playing in a game for the U23s.

Former Nigeria U20 coach Paul Aigbogun approached Saka to be a part of his U20 team in 2018 after watching him when he went scouting for kids of Nigerian heritage in top teams in the English Premier League. Positive discussions were held with Saka’s camp open to the idea.

Then his debut for the first team of Arsenal saw England quickly hand him a call up to the U20 team around the same time as Nigeria. It was also then that the former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick also took notice of him.

As an Arsenal fan, Pinnick saw and also read good things about the rise of Saka and sort to try luring him to play for Nigeria at senior level. He spoke with the boy’s mother who was said to be uncomfortable with the manner she was approached.

She felt he was too loud for her liking and also said a lot of stuff which she felt were not needed as per the first time they were talking. His father was keen on his son taking his time before pledging his international future.

However all of that ended when he got his first call up to the senior national team of England. He honoured it and has remained with the group where he opened his goal account at the World Cup in Qatar with a brace. It was his decision to reject Nigeria and play for England that made Pinnick to say Nigerian have his type scattered around football academies hence won’t beg him to represent the Super Eagles.

“Saka is an excellent prospect but we have other players in his position who are playing so well,” Pinnick said in an Instagram Live chat in 2020.

“We have talents everywhere so we won’t beg people to play for Nigeria. It is about ardour and fervour, If it’s their desire and they merit it, they’ll be given a chance to represent Nigeria.”

The present coach of Athletic Bilbao Ernesto Valverde  was the front runner for the Super Eagles job before Jose Peseiro was appointed as coach six months ago, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Valverde impressed during the course of the interview with his rich CV which includes coaching Barcelona putting him atop every other contender for the job. Aside Peseiro, Philip Cocu and former coach of the French team Laurent Blanc.

The NFF later settled for Peseiro who wasn’t the best during the interview due to reasons bothering on the fact that his salary demand was the lowest and also he accepted several terms which Valverde, who came top wasn’t willing to accept.

” Aside his salary which was on the high side. He also wanted to bring a team of six backroom staff and rejected having Nigerian coaches as part of his crew. He also wanted a separate salary for his assistants unlike Peseiro who agreed to pay his foreign assistants from his $50,000 a month pay”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

Valverde went ahead to pick the job of the coach of Bilbao and has since moved on from the Super Eagles job by doing very well with his team in the LaLiga while Nigeria have only won two matches since Peseiro was appointed as coach.

As many as five players of the senior national team of Nigeria have backed the decision of Emmanuel Dennis not to hand the ball to William Troost Ekong despite instructions from the coach.

Nigeria won a penalty during the course of the 0-4 defeat to Portugal, Dennis was told to hand the ball to Ekong by Jose Peseiro but the former Watford man insisted on taking the spot kick with scores at 0-2. He ended up missing and Portugal went ahead to score two more goals within a space of two minutes.

Reacting to the incident, one of the players said it’s normal to have such kind of situation and it isn’t enough to crucify Dennis because any player could have also missed. ” It happens all the time. It’s unfortunate that he missed it but he is among one of our best penalty takers, so no problem with insisting on taking it”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

Another player said, the entire issue is been blown out of proportion as they didn’t see it the way many took it. ” I’m not sure many people understood the essence of the game. It’s a friendly game and the incident is normal not the way it is being reported by the press”, he said.

A new player in the team also said the entire team didn’t fault Dennis because it wasn’t like he deliberately missed the penalty. ” He didn’t pick up the ball to miss. His intention was to score and it’s unfortunate he didn’t. I’m a new player in the team and I can tell you that not even one person faulted him. It’s normal”, he rounded up saying.

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The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has made up his mind on the future of five senior players in the team including captain of the team Ahmed Musa.

Peseiro has struggled to get results since his appointment as coach of the senior national team of Nigeria but that hasn’t stop him from making big decisions on some players, who don’t seem to fit into his plans.

We gathered he has decided to leave out captain of the team Ahmed Musa until his form improves at club level. Musa only recently joined another Turkish side Sivasspor from Fatih Karagamruk with the aim of getting regular run of games.

Since his move he has played just four matches although a fractured elbow kept him out of actions until the final round of games just before the World Cup break. He still wasn’t picked by Peseiro for the friendly game against Portugal.

Going forward, he might not get any chance to add to his 107 caps for Nigeria with the Portuguese as coach unless his form improves at club level. His treatment is however different from other senior players in the team owing to his role as the captain.

The quartet of Leon Balogun, Kenneth Omeruo, Kelechi Iheanacho and Shehu Abdullahi won’t be accorded same privilege as they don’t fit into the manager’s plan. He has other players ahead of them in the pecking order.

We gathered, the Portuguese coach wants to build his team around young and hungry players and see the phasing out of the aforementioned quartet as the first step toward achieving his goal before the Africa Cup of Nations in 2024.

The future of coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has been heavily debated since the 0-4 loss to Portugal in an international friendly game against Thursday.

Since his appointment six months ago, the Portuguese coach has only two wins to boast of and it came against Sierra Leone and Sao Tome and Principe. Two teams Nigeria were expected to beat.

In four friendly games as coach, the team has lost in all and the 0-4 defeat is the heaviest they have suffered the past ten years. More worrying is the fact that they don’t appear to be playing with the style promised by the coach when he was appointed.

Speaking on what led to his appointment as coach, a former member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said when they interviewed coaches for the job, Peseiro came third in the interview but was given the job because his salary demand falls within the budget of the football house.

” He (Peseiro) wasn’t the best after the interview where we had Laurent Blanc, Philip Cocu and Ernesto Valverde under serious consideration but his demand was the one that suits our budget. I must admit we know he isn’t the best but he is the most affordable plus we already have an agreement with him which we didn’t honour previously. All those played a part in his appointment”, he told Owngoalnigeria.com in an exclusive chat.

The war of words between former Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr and former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick has taken another twist few days to the start of the world cup.

Pinnick was the one who authorized the sacking of the German coach despite qualifying for the World Cup playoff after finishing as group leaders. Rohr was sacked three hours after the ticket for the play off was secured. He was later told to return to his post but with less than three weeks to the start of the Africa Cup of Nations, he was officially disengaged as coach.

Nigeria went to the AFCON and had one of their worst ever campaign at the tournament, exiting immediately after the group phase under interim coach Austine Eguavoen. Eguavoen was left at the helm for the World Cup playoff and after a 0-0 draw away to Ghana. They drew 1-1 in Abuja and Ghana secured a spot at the mundial on away goal rule.

Reacting to all that has happened to the country’s football since his exit, Rohr told local radio station Eagle FM that the former NFF president should be blamed for all that has happened, particularly missing out on qualification for the World Cup.

An angry Pinnick sent a message to the station which was made public by Osasu Obayiuwana, who conducted the interview. He accused the station of bias before firing a barb at Rohr saying he had sexcapedes with little girls while he was head coach.

“It is a shame when you trivialise or personalise issues. It makes your radio station very biased. Why didn’t Osasu ask Rohr about his countless sexcapades with little girls, Gabon, Burkina Faso and Niger?… Let him call me a criminal or defame in your station”, he said via text message as revealed by Osasu on his Twitter handle.

Former coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has arrived Qatar to begin his new job schedule for the period of the 2022 World Cup taking place in the Asian country.

Rohr lost his job as coach of the Nigerian team just before the World Cup qualifiers playoff. In his absence Austine Eguavoen failed to lead the team to the World Cup losing out on away goal rule to Ghana after a 1-1 draw in Abuja.

Despite Nigeria failing to make it to the World Cup, the German coach will be at the tournament as one of the analyst for French television channel, where his vast knowledge of African football will be needed for games involving teams from the continent.

OwnGoalNigeria.com exclusively gathered that he has already arrived in Qatar just in time for the opening ceremony and will be there until after the World Cup. He is yet to get a job since he was sacked by Nigeria. At the World Cup, he will speak on the five African teams who made it to the tournament.

The five teams from Africa are the Black Stars of Ghana, Teranga Lions of Senegal, Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Atlas Lions of Morocco and Carthage Eagles of Tunisia.