Former Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh
has again made shocking revelations about his time as the coach of the
team. He gave detail account on Sunday via his Twitter handle with a
link to his blog, SundayOliseh.tv.
Oliseh resigned in February after only
seven months on the job. The former Eagles captain who left abruptly
cited unpaid salaries and poor working conditions as reasons for leaving
the job.
Oliseh said he had quite a difficult
time with the Nigeria Football Federation, with some senior players like
Mikel Obi, Vincent Enyeama and Victor Moses.
Of his near-death he wrote, “One day
whilst coaching the Super Eagles in Abuja stadium prior to the Burkina
Faso game, all of a sudden I felt dizziness, light headedness, headache
and could barely stand. I managed to finish the session before calling
on the doctor into my room who was clueless to what was happening.
“From then on it was sleepless nights, loss of appetite, high blood pressure and before I knew it I started losing weight.
“After several visits to doctors abroad
nothing was found though the doctors found anomalies they couldn’t pin
point the actual illness to.
“For weeks I was bed ridden, lost 7
kilos and could barely walk 5 metres without sitting down. My family was
petrified and all feared the worst. One thing was for sure though: had I
not taking that evening flight to Germany when I did, there was a
strong possibility of a far worse outcome. Thank God for his mercies.”
Oliseh also took another dig at the NFF
President Amaju Pinnick insisting the FA boss made false claims
regarding coaches being paid up front.
He wrote, “On the day I was unveiled,
the very vocal president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick boasted to the world
that he was going to pay me 6 months’ salary in advance, we were never
ever going to be owed as he had procured sponsorship from Zenith Bank,
that he knows I am the African Guardiola etc. These were declarations
that not only added unnecessary pressure on us but made us hated by
certain quarters as ‘prima Donnas.’
“We now know that, that was a ploy to
make the world falsely believe that I was giving all the tools to
succeed whilst intending to eventually starve us of tools to succeed in
reality to have a scapegoat and employ his dream foreign coach for
obvious reasons, as was tried failingly recently!”
Oliseh insists that the noise made by the NFF on the salary may have pushed kidnappers into targeting his family members.
“In October 2015, with the belief that I
had millions from the NFF, kidnappers attacked a family member of
mine’s home in Lagos, but thanks to God the intended victim was not at
home.
“Shaken at the news, I called Mr. Amaju
to inform him of my displeasure of his false public declarations in my
regard and there and then the seed of resignation started to grow in me.
Is this worth my peaceful family suffering?
“I signed my contract as Chief Coach of
the super Eagles in July 2015 and was paid in August for July and August
but did no longer get any payments till January 2016. My assistants
were worse off as they received just a month’s pay as at January 2016.
The NFF and its allies in public claimed otherwise.”
On the NFF technical committee he wrote,
“The moment Ayansi was replaced as head of the infamous technical
committee by Mr. Chris Green, we all knew that disaster and chaos was on
the way.
“Chris Green is a man who late Stephen
Keshi almost beat up just midway into the 2013 AFCON adventure in South
Africa and eventually was going around all of Rwanda telling all who
cared to listen that he won the 2013 AFCON for Nigeria and the 2014
World Cup qualification and not Keshi.
'I almost died as Eagles coach' -- Sunday Oliseh
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