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Super Eagles coach defends demand for huge pay rise
Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle has put up a stout defense of his demand for a hefty pay rise of $130,000.
The pay rise from $50,000 to $130,000 has caused an outrage in Nigeria, but the coach has attempted a defense.
He argued that the pay rise will cover all his support staff, who help him to withstand the pressure of leading the national team of a country of over 250 million people, as well that this amount is also negotiable.
“What people don’t know, is that in Africa, I, in the national team where I was, I have to pay my staff. My technical staff” he said in Histores de Foot Podcast.
“So, in the 130,000 dollars offered, potentially, if, of course, those numbers are confirmed, you have to pay your staff with all that behind? Yes, we are five.
“So, I’m talking to you about my assistant, my first assistant, I’m talking to you about my physical trainer, my goalkeeper coach, and my personal assistant.
“You know, players today, they create a structure around them, where they have their personal physical coach, their personal coach, and sometimes they have a mental coach.
“So, me, to manage the pressure, because there are times when the pressure is strong, when there is a coach of a nation of 250 million inhabitants, I mean, twice as much as France, maybe even more, quadruple, because France is 65 million.
“So, 250 million, there is pressure. There is pressure, and sometimes I can’t manage the pressure alone. So, I put a structure in place around me that will allow me to manage this pressure. So, all these people, well, you have to pay them.
“And above all, the most important point, well, it’s not my job, I’m a coach, but when you negotiate a contract, do you go as high as possible or as low as possible?
“So, today, it’s a negotiation. We’re getting there.”
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Official: Club stopped Femi Azeez from Super Eagles friendlies
A top team official has informed SCORENigeria that English Championship club Millwall have stopped Femi Azeez from featuring in the Super Eagles friendlies against Poland and Portugal.
Femi Azeez was drafted to the Super Eagles squad for the friendlies as a direct replacement for Samuel Chukwueze after he shone at the Unity Cup in London.
However, his club Millwall stopped him from the matches.
“He was listed for the friendlies, but his club blocked him from the matches,” the official told SCORENigeria
This is believed to be in connection with a possible major transfer involving the highly-rated winger amid reports that Millwall have turned down a 20 million pounds offer from promoted Ipswich Town for the player.
Swedish club AIK stopped Zadok Yohanna from making his Super Eagles debut partly because he was injured and also because they are negotiating his transfer.
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Family seeks autopsy of late Golden Eaglets star Victor Udoh
Top sources have told only SCORENigeria that the family has sought an autopsy to be done on former Golden Eaglets star Victor Udoh, who died in Abuja at the weekend amid various speculations surrounding his untimely death.
The autopsy will uncover the cause of death of the player, who was hail and hearty on the day he died.
The autopsy will be conducted after the Sallah holidays by Friday as a court will have to authorise it.
“So many lies have been written about the circumstances leading to his death and that it the more reason an autopsy is now very necessary,” another source confided to SCORENigeria
“No one has been arrested or detained in connection with his death and the cause of death has yet to be determined.”
A close family source further informed SCORENigeria on the fateful day of his death Udoh had trained around the hills between Kubwa and Bwari along with his friends, which he even posted on social media.
He later retired to his house and it was only when he could not be reached on phone that all efforts were done to break into his room, where his body was found.
It was further gathered that the player even got his entry visa to restart his career in the Czech Republic just days to his demise.
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Super Eagles coach faults Man of Match Femi Azeez
Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle has congratulated Man of the Match Femi Azeez on his goal-scoring debut, but at the same faulted some of the things that the Millwall winger failed to do.
Femi Azeez made the dream debut with two goals for the Super Eagles to sink Zimbabwe and advance to the final of the Unity Cup Saturday in London.
“He scored two goals, I congratulate him, but he lost a lot of balls, so not happy with him even though he recovered some of these balls,” Eric Chelle said at the post-match media briefing.
“I also asked them to do the high pressing for the whole 90 minutes.”
The coach praised his experimental selection for “playing like a team who have been playing together for the past six months, one year”, saying they deserved their victory.
“It was not easy for some of the players to play for the first time against a strong team like Zimbabwe,” he said.
“But this is a friendly not a World Cup or AFCON qualifier.
“All the same we deserved our victory and i am happy for the result.”
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