Super Eagles: NFF directs Oliseh to now report to Amodu

Sunday Oliseh, the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, will
henceforth report to Shuaibu Amodu, the National Technical
Director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Chris Green, the Chairman, NFF's Technical and Development
Committee, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja
on Thursday that this development was for easy coordination.
Green also said this was because NFF's Technical
Department was structured in a way that all the national
team coaches must report directly to Amodu.
"Shuaibu Amodu is the National Technical Director and as
such he is involved in all the games of the national teams,
whether in the under-17, under-20 or Super Eagles.
"Normally, as the National Technical Director, Oliseh will
report to him (Amodu), while he (Amodu) reports to the
Technical Committee and from there to the General
Secretary and finally to the Executive Committee of the NFF.
"His (Amodu) function is to prepare programmes for the
Federation for the various national teams for the next five
years.
"So, for every game we play, he is involved by virtue of his
position.
"All of us will have to work together. Oliseh is the Head
Coach of the Super Eagles, while Amodu is the National
Technical Director.
"However, Amodu is not directly involved in the handling of
the Super Eagles, but he is directly involved in the
formulation of policies and programmes for all the national
teams."
He said he was sure Amodu would not usurp the duties of
Oliseh.
"He will only give directives through his programmes and
policies for the team, ahead of the qualifiers with Egypt,
Tanzania and Chad."
On the committee's meeting with Oliseh, scheduled for
Friday, Green said the Eagles coach had written to indicate
that he would be absent from the meeting.
He noted that Oliseh's reason for being absent from Friday's
meeting would be viewed on its merit.
"The meeting has been slated. If Oliseh is writing to say that
he will not attend, then we will look at his reasons for not
attending. But the meeting is not only about Oliseh.
"We (the committee members) are also meeting to look at
the programmes of all our national teams and the list of
invited players for the national teams which have
engagements in the near future,'' the NFF executive
committee member said.
Green however said what was important to the NFF now was
for the Eagles to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
(AFCON) scheduled for Gabon. (NAN)