Dumping me won’t help —Keshi

Super Eagles head coach, Stephen Keshi, still wants to continue in his role despite missing out on qualification for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Keshi believes sacking him will do nothing to reverse the downward trend the Eagles are currently experiencing, insisting the problems goes beyond him. “If a team fails, sacking the coach won’t solve the problem. The authority should look beyond the coach to find solutions to the problem,” Keshi said.
Keshi, who has been working without a contract since the expiration of his last deal after the World Cup, admitted that failure to qualify for next year’s AFCON is failure on his part. “I can’t deny it is a shame that we failed to qualify,on my part I failed the nation but my players took South Africa for granted,a match they had to win.” His agent Emma Addo was, however, silent on his client’s future but echoed Keshi’s sentiment that the problem of the team goes beyond the coach. “No explanation will be acceptable now by Nigerians but Super Eagles problems goes beyond coaching,if some issues are not resolved no one can succeed for long with the team,” Ammo added. “We shouldn’t forget where Keshi picked this team from in 2012, almost same place like they are now but nobody cared about how they got there, that is why it happened again.”