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Nigeria/Ghana: NFA in Dark Over Ghana 2008 Technical Report
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This Day (Lagos)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 27 March 2008
Olawale Ajimotokan
Lagos
Almost two months after Ghana 2008, the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) is yet to receive the Ghana 2008 technical reports from the Super Eagles coaches who are understood have not briefed the federation about what transpired at the tournament.
However, former NFA Secretary General Taiwo Ogunjobi, who is the chairman of the FA Technical Committee, claimed the body which was represented at Ghana 2008 had submitted an independent technical report to the board.
"Well I am not sure if the Eagles coaches have not given a post tournament account to the NFA. But there is a technical committee report which we wrote and passed to the NFA," Ogunjobi who is a member of the NFA board said last night.
It is the normal routine for national technical crews after a major assignment to submit post event technical reports to the secretariat for record and reference purposes.
THISDAYSports understands that the lack of a detail technical report was a fall out of the crisis that blew open between the NFA and the then chief coach Berti Vogts after the Nations Cup leading to the sack of the German last week.
Vogts, who left for Germany after the Nations Cup, shunned the NFA's appeal to file in the technical report because his fate was already in the balance after the team's quarter final exit.
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He declined the FA's appeal to tender the report while in Germany because he had been placed on 30-day notice by the board and had petitioned FIFA accusing the Nigerian federation of a breach of contract.
THISDAYSports learnt that Vogts' Nigerian assistants Austin Eguavoen and Ike Shorunmu in the German's absence equally were not in the mood to prepare the reports because their future with the Eagles was sealed after the team was eliminated by Ghana in the quarterfinals.
The two Nigerians Eagles' future had been tied to the team reaching at least the semi final of Africa's elite football tournament and they were duly briefed in advance before the start of the Nations Cup.
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