The head coach of the U23 team of Nigeria Salisu Yusuf has reacted to calls for his sack by football loving Nigerians following his failure to qualify the Nigeria U23 team for the U23 Africa Cup of Nations, OGN reports.
Yusuf and his wards were humbled 0-2 away by Guinea even though the game was played on a neutral ground. The Guineans progressed on a 2-0 aggregate win with the first leg of the qualifiers ending 0-0 in Abuja.
Pack filled with half baked professionals and lowly rated players from the Nigeria local football leagues, the team can easily pass as the worst ever U23 team in the history of Nigerian football at that level.
Upon their return to Nigeria, the coach was asked if he thinks he should keep his spot with the national team, where he also doubles as one of the assistants of coach Jose Peseiro, considering that Imama Amapakabo was relieved off the same role after failing with the U23.
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” I am a coach, I will always be a coach as far as I am fit to work. I have a definition with the side (U23) but I still have a contract with the Super Eagles as an assistant coach”, he said in a snippet of an interview loaded by Sportsville on their Twitter handle earlier today.
His statement means he could be on the bench for the senior national side of Nigeria, when they take on Sierra Leone in the penultimate games of the qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations.
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