Abuja — Former Chairman of Gombe Football Association, Ahmed Shuaib Gara Gombe has described the call to sack the head coach of the Super Eagles, Amadu Shuaibu, and recruit a more competent World class coach to lead the team to South Africa as immoral and counterproductive.

Making this statement yesterday in an interview with Trustsports, Gara Gombe berated those making such calls, saying Amodu had delivered on the mandate given to him by the football ruling house.

According to him, the mandate given to Amadu was to deliver the World Cup ticket for the country, which he has successfully done.

"It is very immoral for anybody to start calling on the sack of the coach after he had struggled very hard to qualify the country for the World Cup. Where were those people when the coach was facing hell during the qualifier?" he asked.

He further said, "Some of the so-called World class coaches have failed woefully to take their teams to the World Cup, which Amodu has achieved. The issue of sack should have come during the qualification campaign, when the going was very tough for the man, not now that he is looking forward to taking his team to the World Cup. If anything, he should be allowed to enjoy the fruit of his labour.

"It will definitely take a new coach a very long time to really know or understand our players. He will also need very ample time to pass on to the players new techniques. Do we have such time? We shouldn't do anything that will destroy the chemistry of the team which has seen them qualified for South Africa.

"The last time Amodu qualified the Eagles for the World Cup he was sacked and replaced with Coach Adegboye Onigbinde. What was the result of the action taken then? We failed to go beyond the first round, losing two matches and drawing one. Even in 1998 when we replaced our French coach Philippe Troussier who qualified the Eagles for with Bora Milutinovic, the new man could not understand the team till the commencement of the championship.

"My position is that Amodu should be allowed to stay and after the World Cup if his employers become dissatisfied with his performance, then we can go for a world class coach to prepare us for the 2014 World Cup," the football administrator counselled.

On what can be done to improve the team for the African Nations Cup and the World Cup, he advocated for a consortium of coaches that will assist Amodu in his task to do well in Angola and South Africa.