He did not try to complicate matters with patterns and systems that could not have been mastered on the poor grounds of domestic Nigerian football. The team came out of AFCON 1976 in Third-place. Led by a Nigerian, and amidst crisis that had become a recurring decimal in Nigerian football administration, the country won the 2013 version. In Egypt, at the 2019, AFCON, the team got to the semi-finals, but was almost unrecognizable from the free-flowing, all-attacking team that was the culture of Nigerian football. The national team since then has been mostly influenced by players drawn from European clubs without proper grounding in Nigerian football.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2022 04:49 UTC