Why Nigeria's Method for Selecting Senior National Team Manager is a Cyclical Abyss.
If you can take a moment to sit back, relax, and then attempt to make sense about how Nigeria has decided to fire and select its senior national team manager across time, you will sure make little sense of it. It is a cyclical abyss. By this one refers to the fact that it is cyclical because same things are repeated over time. It is an abyss because it appears to be a bottomless pit of hell, to which a conclusion, an endpoint, or a resolution is never in sight. It is simply a matter of looking at the present coach and deeming him tactically clueless (whatever that means for a coach that is learned, certified, and experienced) and then making a case for hiring one that does not resemble him. That is if he is local then we must hire a foreigner, if he is a foreigner then surely a local will be the solution. Soon enough we will add, if he is young, then let's hire an older guy, if he is European then let's hire a South American. Searching for the criteria for hiring coaches i...