African Coaches

Chxta notes on his blog that everytime a Nigerian Coach has taken the National team to the Nations Cup they have won a Medal -

1984: Ade Onigbinde - Silver Medal
2002: Amodu Shuaibu - Bronze Medal
2004: Christian Chukwu - Bronze Medal
2006: Austin Eguavoen - Bronze Medal

The 2008 African Cup of Nations has revealed an over reliance by the African Countries on Foriegn Managers. Of the 16 countries that started the tournament, only Egypt, Zambia and Sudan have African Coaches (Egypt - Hassan Shehata, Zambia - Patrick Phiri and Sudan Mohammed Abdallah or 4 if you count Angola's Luis Oliveira Goncalves who played for Portugal during his playing days but thats stil just 25%!!!). It appears that once you are French or German and you are a football coach irrespective of how poor your motivational skills are, you are able to get an African Country to pay you millions to Coach their team. Berti Vogts sacked by Scotland manages Nigeria, and while I have no beef with experienced managers like Tunisia's Roger Lemerre, what has Benin's Reinhard Fabisch ever done? He has only ever managed African sides!

Surely it's time for the likes of George Weah, Abedi Pele and Jay-Jay Okocha to use the bundles of experience gained plying their trade in Europe at the highest level for the benefit of african teams.