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Samson Siasia
Nigeria caretaker coach Samson Siasia has said there are only a handful of black coaches working in Europe because the clubs there do not believe in them.
Siasia has been reappointed Nigeria coach in an interim capacity in the wake of the shock resignation of Sunday Oliseh recently.
He first coached Nigeria Super Eagles in 2010, before he was fired the following year after he failed to qualify the country to the 2012 AFCON in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Before getting his coaching badges in the United States of America and Europe, he played for French club Nantes as well as Lokeren in Belgium.
He also featured at the 1994 World Cup in the USA when Nigeria made a long-awaited debut.
Siasia has now said European clubs are guilty of not giving black coaches a chance.
“I want to believe that the reasons there are not many black coaches working in Europe are because the European clubs hardly give us a chance and they do not believe in us,” said the coach, who himself was severally linked with jobs abroad.
“Many of us have not only played at the highest level in Europe, but have excelled, but even when we get our coaching badges there, these clubs still don’t give us the break we need to show what we can do outside the pitch.
“We have many ex-African players with French nationality, but I can only recall (Claude) Makalele who was at Bastia and that was it.
“Where is John Barnes with all he achieved at Liverpool and even though he grew up in England and played for that country? He was not given much of a chance there as a coach.
“Where is another black coach, Chris Houghton? Where is he now?
“Many of us have good records as players and then coaches, but because the European clubs do not believe in us, we end up having to do something else.
“And even where they give us a chance, they are quick to dispense with us.
“Something is really not right, but I don’t want to put any name to it.”
Siasia has been reappointed Nigeria coach in an interim capacity in the wake of the shock resignation of Sunday Oliseh recently.
He first coached Nigeria Super Eagles in 2010, before he was fired the following year after he failed to qualify the country to the 2012 AFCON in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Before getting his coaching badges in the United States of America and Europe, he played for French club Nantes as well as Lokeren in Belgium.
He also featured at the 1994 World Cup in the USA when Nigeria made a long-awaited debut.
Siasia has now said European clubs are guilty of not giving black coaches a chance.
“I want to believe that the reasons there are not many black coaches working in Europe are because the European clubs hardly give us a chance and they do not believe in us,” said the coach, who himself was severally linked with jobs abroad.
“Many of us have not only played at the highest level in Europe, but have excelled, but even when we get our coaching badges there, these clubs still don’t give us the break we need to show what we can do outside the pitch.
“We have many ex-African players with French nationality, but I can only recall (Claude) Makalele who was at Bastia and that was it.
“Where is John Barnes with all he achieved at Liverpool and even though he grew up in England and played for that country? He was not given much of a chance there as a coach.
“Where is another black coach, Chris Houghton? Where is he now?
“Many of us have good records as players and then coaches, but because the European clubs do not believe in us, we end up having to do something else.
“And even where they give us a chance, they are quick to dispense with us.
“Something is really not right, but I don’t want to put any name to it.”
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This is really getting out of hand the discrimination is getting too much..I don't know why the white people hate black people so much
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe and agree to what he says..
ReplyDeleteHe is 100% correct. I can not speak about the rest of Europe but can certainly talk about the UK. The forces within the UK are incredibly negative. There are uncountable blacks who have played soccer, yet they are hardly given a chance. It's a joke - they treat them like they are doing them a big favor. Siasia is correct about John Barnes cos that pissed me off! Black Europeans need to take the bull by the horns and deal with this problem. It's not only in sports, it's also in music, fashion, etc.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Europeans are just too terrible when it comes to discrimination. They refuse to take a page out of America. Look at how many black coaches they have in the USA? After all the black soccer players you would think some of them would be promoted to coaches. They've made soccer the white old man's network. They are also very anti-women. Horrible things.
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