The Nigerian national team wobbled to two disappointing draws in the opening rounds of the World Cup qualifying race
Former Super Eagles goalkeeper Peterside Idah has called on the Nigeria Football Federation to relieve Jose Peseiro of his duties as the head coach of the Super Eagles, Soccernet.ng reports.
Idah makes the call following Nigeria's unimpressive start to the race for qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Led by Peseiro, the Super Eagles drew against lowly Lesotho in Uyo and stumbled to another uninspiring 1-1 draw against Zimbabwe in Rwanda last week.
The draws leave Nigeria with two points from three games and place the former African champions in third place in Group C behind Rwanda and South Africa.
Nigeria did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and Idah is convinced that the Super Eagles will miss the next edition of the Mundial if Peseiro remains in charge of the team.
“First, fire the coach. He has to go because he will lead us nowhere,” Idah told Vanguard.
“Jacob, if you are at the airport and you are being checked in for a flight and suddenly, they announce that Bishop Peterside Idah is the pilot, would you want to enter the plane? No matter how much you like me, you will not want to commit suicide.
“The Super Eagles need a coach. We cannot afford not to be at the next World Cup.”
Idah opined that a coalition of several former Nigeria internationals should be commissioned to take charge of the Super Eagles in the event of Peseiro's departure.
The one-time Moroka Swallows goalkeeper believes former Ajax midfielder Sunday Oliseh, with ex-Everton star Daniel Amokachi and former Lille shot-stopper Vicent Enyeama, would secure a World Cup ticket for Nigeria without trouble.
“We are in an emergency situation,” Idah added.
“The Minister of Sports Development should, as a matter of urgency, step in. His intervention can save Nigeria from further embarrassment.
“Call Sunday Oliseh, Daniel Amokachi, Vincent Enyeama, Barrister Green, Paul Bassey, and myself and hand over the team to us with a mission statement, ‘We must qualify for the World Cup' and empower the team with everything that is required.
“You will see qualification for the World Cup accomplished.”
Born in Port Harcourt, Idah played for BCC Lions, Enyimba, Temba Classic, and Moroka Swallows.
Now a Bishop, the 49-year-old pastors at Christ Ambassadors Church based in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg.
Sunday Oliseh again? Him and Osimehn go fight oo. Were has he been couching since the last time and Peterside has he been coaching in his church?
I strongly believe the duo of Sunday Oliseh and Daniel Amokachi would get us witld cup qualification based on their ptoficiencies and cognate experiences garnered during their playing and coaching spells. No iota of doubt they would get us the world cup ticket. But would need to develop high technical skills in order to get us far at the world cup.
only envy and negatives will continue to destroy this people. why is everything attached to destroying the coach personality. will he ever wished the players not to qualify?
if you blame the coach then tell him how to correct it because he has other technical assistants.
you are in church but thinking of how to eat football money from South Africa? ehhh unfortunate thinkers
do you want this man to completely destroy our football before we sack him? we are struggling in a group where everyone thought we will have a jolly good ride to qualify. you must be joking. sack him now or we will be disgraced. we have good players now, all we need is a hungry coach who wants to succeed or give it to the consortium mentioned above.
have we just so soon forgot wat happen last time that make us to fail the last world cup at the same period we sack the former coach same time oooo time of nation cup and world cup qualifying then Ghana beat us home and away the so call local coach could nit beat Ghana ooo pls let allow this coach to finish his job we still have the chance after cup of Nation our team we do better the coach is not the real problem every body is talking about the problem is just two one the team have no leadership since the departure of Mikel obi they lack leadership two no real midfielder and we keep blaming the coach and too much missionaries in the team who did not no all about Africa football the coach only use wat the country have just let us help him to focus we still have time and let focus on Nation cup first then the world cup which will be played in June next year after the cup of Nation thanks.
Sack sack that is the only language we understand, but can not look inward towards the situation of things in Nigeria whether it can attract a good result in events, a country where majority are hungry and sad, insecurity and corruption I pity the coach and the players because there is no love in the country, the country is so divided , the leaders are only interested in looting the country and dry, we have to change our attitudes to attract favour from above .
Don
It’s my humble opinion that the gentleman, present National Coach should be appreciated for this far and then paid off. He is not the right coach for these talented active players, presently Nigeria can boast of a great deal of talented and promising footballers, all we need now is first class football manager to manage and harness this great collection of talents.
At times, one needs to say no to good things in order to get a better one, the may be good in his right, but Nigeria needs a better Football Manager/Coach.
Don’t mind Peterside, all the people he mentioned are all monumental failures including himself. Amonkachi coached a 3rd divisclub in Finland(my place of resident and he was a total failure) In Finland Icehockey is the popular sports. The first division teams in Finland hardly qualify for euro championship, so, their third division clubs are nothing to write home about, yet Amonkachi failed measurably here in that division. Oliseh failed several times he was appointed to coach lower division team in the Belgium’s league. His team played a total of 8 matches and lost all of them. The other people mentioned by this looser don’t deserve any comment. If Peterside is tired of his preaching job in Johannesburg let him look elsewhere rather than coaching the Super Eagles. inshort it is an insult for him to make such stupid suggestion. Have we really gotten so low? My take on the issue about this technically handicapped coach is that let’s allow him lead the team to Afcon next year and then judge him after that . We must bear in mind that time is not on our side.
Hummmm, I don’t use to blame Coaches for our previous problems regarding our Senior National Team until I learnt Pasero was coming as Super Eagles Coach, then I knew there’s going to be a different perception all together.
People should kindly preview Pasero’s Coaching Profile and understand his journey so far. I became receptive seeing Mourinho recommending him to Nigeria when contacted for advice. It’s not been that rosy for Pasero in his Coaching Career and I was surprised how Pasero who couldn’t win a single friendly match to date could have survived Nigerian problem. I’m not suggesting that Pasero be sacked or retained to continue his job, but it’s only that Pasero isn’t meant to solve our problem. A good Coach would have made something good out of these multitude of talents. When people say we don’t have these or that type of players, hence the Coach problem, I laughed. Westerhoff went with unknown players to take part in different tournaments and Ademola Adeshina known hitherto as a striker became a solid Centre Back under Westerhoff and Bonfrere Jo watch. That ingenuity of Coaching.
Pasero has no the right pedigree to Coach Nigerian National Team to glory with due respect to him.
First of all,are the players hungry enough to play in a world cup?
If they’re, they should know what is at stake.We always blame the coach,he will not play the game,they’re all professionals,should have a burning desire to future in the biggest stage of them all.
Other nations are always hungry and committed to represent their countries, not our Nigerian players.
please stop blaming the coach,blame the players, some are so heavy,they can’t even run,in the field, our player’s should be committed.
NFF,should put their house in order,stop owing both players and coaching crew to get the best out of them.
Nigerians should give any coach time,Liverpool and Manchester city,and Real Madrid, are all doing well,because of consistency, their coaching crew have being the same,same as England, corsica and Senegal,just to mention a few,please let their be consistency, and we can be seeing results.
Let’s all stop being coaches,and give those trained to do their jobs.
Pls get the grassroot football working alongside the local league (Put round peg in round hole).
Sack the peseiro & crew immediately. Emmanuel Amuneke, Finidi George & Joseph Yobo can deliver the team.
Is not fire brigade approach. Standard 3 years contract. Look at the Senegalese team, Algeria, Morocco, etc. These teams we can learn from.
NFF SHOULD BE RUNNED BY FOOTBALLERS, NOT POLITICAL JOBBERS.
This is the dumbest suggestion for redeeming our Super Eagles dismal performance. Of all the names Peterside Idah put forward, none is competent to coach the team.
Oliseh is a loose cannon, Amokachi is a jolly boy.. Victor seems fine but needs to be involved in the football management elsewhere to gain experience.
I don’t understand what Peters idea about himself. No really worth a reply.