5 Reasons Why Renewing Coach Keshi's Contract Is The Right Step
1. For Continuity: In 2012, England didn't do well at the European Championship. Under coach Roy Hodgson, England crashed out in the quarter finals. Similar performance came at the last World Cup where England crashed out at the 1st round. But the English FA still saw something good in Hodgson. Under him, lots of youngsters like Oxlade Chamberlain, Luke Shaw, Danny Welbeck, Chambers, Adam Llalana, Phil Jones among others have established themselves as stars. the future of the English team is bright. They are also topping their group for the next Euro qualifiers.
Also, Spain did poorly at the last World Cup. A team which boasted of some of the best players in the world including Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Xabi Alonso, David Silva, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba and others. Despite their poor performance and getting whooped 5-0 by Netherlands in their first match at the 2014 World Cup, they stuck with their coach to promote continuity. Presntly, the team is not doing badly.
Retaining Coach Keshi will promote continuity and make our players grow together. Any coach that comes in now will start all over.2. Learning From Failure: Experience is the best teacher. If another coach takes over, he would not have first hand information why the team failed and those reasons will not be corrected. Coach Keshi knows his mistakes and from the next matches, he will correct them.
3. Emerging Talents Will Continue To Come Out: Coach Keshi was a man who never failed to churn out talents. Many players made their break through in the national team. From Sunday Mba, Godfrey Oboabona, Ogenyi Onazi. Kenneth Omeruo, Juwon Oshaniwa, Michael Babatunde, Victor Moses, Aaron Samuel, Sonny Aluko. Infact, Keshi is the only Nigerian coach with the highest number of invitees to the Super Eagles. Coach Keshi gave many young talents their chances in the national team and many shone. Retaining Coach Keshi will maintain this trend.4. Mikel Obi: Before Coach Keshi, Mikel was seen as a failure and a flop from the promise he showed in the age grade tourneys.Under Coach Keshi, Mikel has shown promise and reasons why he was seen as a promising youngster. Mikel created so much chances for the team in recent years and has shown great displays in games for the Super Eagles. He was nominated for the African Footballer of the year and finished second.5. His AFCON Victory Was Not A Fluke: Facts need to be seperated from lies. Nigeria's victory in the last African Cup of Nation was not a fluke. It was not because fellow African power houses like Cameroon and Egypt didn't participated or because Nigeria didn't meet Ghana. At least the team met Ivory Coast who many has tipped to lift the trophy in the quarter final and defeated them. No other Nigerian coach has won a the AFCON except Keshi. It's a pity he won't get the chance to present Nigeria to defend the trophy next year. But his achievement should not be swept away.
Final Say
Under Keshi, Nigeria still has more to gain. Except hiring a world class foreign coach in the league of people like Loius Van Gaal, Louis Phillipe Scolari, Guus Hiidink, Marcelo Lippi, Joachim Low, Jose Mourinho or Pep Guardiola, no other Nigerian coach can do the job better than Keshi. At least for now.
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