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Former coach of the Heartland
Football Club of Owerri, Imo state, Erasmus Onu said there is no club in Nigeria
as far as he is concerned.
Onu, who is presently the technical
consultant to Supreme Court Football Club of Abuja made this claim after his
team defeated Minda Football Club of Makurdi at the Area 3 football pitch in
Abuja.
He said, a situation where they
give a coach a job to do and at the end of the day, they give him a long list
of players to be featured in a game does not speak well of the team.
According to him, “Go and check
other leagues in the world, which club is being sponsored by government? The question
now is, do we have football clubs? So when we are talking about clubside, which
clubside are we talking about?
“I coached Heartland FC of Owerri,
what I know is that I coached a government team not a professional club. It is
a team where anybody can bring in players to be included. In a real
professional club, nobody will force a player on you. The coach and the
management team decide on the player to pick. You don’t give a coach a job and
still decide for him who to play.
“They will bring a long list of
players from the Government House; they will insist that all these players must
play the match whether he knows how to play or not otherwise you get sacked. I don’t
think we are serious in this country, we are not running professional clubs in Nigeria,
“Who are the chairmen of the club,
one politician who does not know anything about football? So which clubside are
we talking about? If you said football team, yes, I agree I coached Heartland
but if you said professional club, no I did not,” he noted.
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