Former Dream Team coach Samson Siasia has opened up on how he became Super Eagles coach after the departure of Sunday Oliseh.
The Former FC Nantes attacker revealed how it all happened all of a sudden and how late Shuiabu Amodu persuaded him to take the appointment.
” “Oliseh ran away. He’s been a runner since… Like Ben Johnson, what do you call him? Yes, here I was coaching the Olympic team. Oliseh said he no do again, saying he don move. Why? We don’t know.
They said, coach, you go take over. I said take over what? they said Super Eagles, I said no I don’t want to. I said I didn’t want to because that’s not my team. I cannot get control of that team in two weeks. In two weeks you are playing against Egypt.”
“I said, you? What are you? You are a coach. Go and coach the team. He (Amodu) said, no. I have a heart problem. I said, you wan make I get one too? He was like, no we don’t have another person but only you.”
“I now said Okay, Because we don’t have another person, make I go do a rescue mission. We tried though, the last minute, they (Egypt) come to score us”, he told Mattew Edafe on a Podcast.
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