Nigerian former international, Stephen Keshi and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday finally ended the lingering contract renewal as head coach of the Super Eagles with the former signing and presentation of the former Eagles captain, Keshi to the media in Abuja.
Speaking after signing the contract, Keshi appealed to the football federation for support just as he hoped to get support of the media, saying he cannot do it alone.
According to Keshi: “First I want to thank God for this day because out of the 170 million Nigerians I was given this opportunity to do my fatherland’s job. I equally thank the NFF for giving me the opportunity. I want to thank Nigerians especially many of them who believe I have all it takes to take the Super Eagles to the top.”
“I want to thank all but want to say that Keshi alone cannot do this job because it is big. If we want to succeed the job is more than what one man can do. It is not going to be an individual but a collective effort. I need and I know I will get 150 per cent from the NFF.
“I equally want to say that the media will play 120 per cent role for Nigeria to succeed, if we all team up and stay together as one, the sky will be the limit for Nigerian football. I want to tell you that this is a new page in Nigerian football. We are going to give all it takes for Nigeria to be up there.
“Let what happened in the past be bygone now. In football we will lose and win some. Please, I beg you to walk and talk together without sentiment so that we can make Nigeria and ourselves proud,” he said.
Speaking earlier, the chairman technical sub-committee, Felix Anyansi-Agwu said: “Today is an epoch making day and history has been made with the signing of this contract. Let me first thank the Executive Committee of the NFF for accepting the recommendation of the technical sub-committee by reappointing coach Keshi.
“The NFF under the leadership of Mr. Pinnick Amaju, has absolute and undiluted confidence in Keshi’s capacity to take the Super Eagles to a new height. That is why the executive committee willingly without any pressure from any quarter to reappoint Keshi.
“We want to plead with Nigerians to see this as a new beginning and support every activity of the federation and all that Keshi stands for.
“We want to thank Nigerians for their patience because we know how worried our fans around the world felt before. We want to appeal to everybody to allow issues of the past to remain so and look at the new beginning and the Executive Committee with Keshi will certainly take Nigerian football to where nobody has taken it to. We have confidence in Keshi and that is why we have to present Keshi to Nigerians,” he noted.
On the fate of his assistance like Daniel Amokachi, Keshi declined comment, pushing to the federation who equally quipped that the event was to present Keshi not about the assistants.
“We are here to present the chief coach not to present any assistant coach or the backroom staff. We appeal for patience and at the opportune time, we will invite you for the assistant coaches,” he said.
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