The local coaches appointed to the senior national team of Nigeria as part of the technical crew of new coach Jose Peseiro are not finding it easy to cope financially. OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Peseiro came with three of his assistants but he is responsible for their pay hence they don’t have such issues but that isn’t the case with the quartet of Finidi George, Salisu Yusuf, Usman Abdallah and Ike Shorunmu. All four local coaches presently don’t have signed contracts.
We gathered they presently have no idea how much they will be earning or how they will be paid as they have not heard a word from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The situation is the same for the backroom staff who were recently appointed as well.
” My brother, we beg players for money. That’s a fact. It’s the only way we can survive esle how do we explain to our families that we are travelling abroad with a national team and returning with nothing to show? You know they won’t take it”, a member of the backroom team told OwnGoalNigeria.com in an exclusive chat.
” The players haven’t been paid their allowances for the last 12 or 13 matches. Even the last game we played against Algeria, they just played and go and I am not sure they have received match allowance for any friendly game the past two years”, he concluded.
