Keshi needs to improve on his abilities: Pinnick

If past statements by the newly-elected NFF president Amaju Pinnick were anything to go by, the job of the Super Eagles Coach Stephen Keshi may just end very soon.
and this could well decide the future of the coach.
Pinnick had in the past made it clear that he was no fan of Keshi, and had said that he thought that the coach had reached the limited of his capacity.
Although Keshi has made tremendous progress with the Eagles, the performance of the team since the run up to the 2014 World Cup had left many wondering if he possess the ability to Nigeria to the next level.
Not a few football experts questioned his selection and tactics before, during and after the World Cup.
And the loss at home to lowly rated Congo is indeed one of the lowest points of Nigeria football history in recent years.
Keshi is currently out of a contract after his initial deal ran out after the World Cup. He will take charge of Nigeria’s two AFCON qualifiers against Sudan this month after which the new NFF executive committee led by Pinnick will decide on his future.
Vanguard in a tieback report indicated that the early signals are not promising for Keshi.
According to the newspaper, it is feared that he will not keep his job much longer at least going by what Pinnick thinks of him.Pinnick questioned Keshi’s competence during the World Cup in Brazil.
“I like Keshi as a person, but the Eagles run-up to the World Cup and their first game (vs Iran) has proved to me that Keshi has reached his limit,” the new NFF chief told Saturday Vanguard Sports in an interview after the last FIFA World Cup in Brazil. That was before he became NFF boss.
“He is a national hero. I celebrate him for all he has achieved with the team in such a short time, but it appears he can’t move the Eagles forward unless he improves on his abilities.”
Pinnick also blamed Keshi’s coaching staff for not adopting the scientific approach and so Nigeria’s failure to go past the knockout stage of the last World Cup.
“We failed to go further in Brazil because our coaches did not adopt the scientific approach to winning matches. Football has gone beyond having a coaching crew on the bench,” he said.
“The trend now is to have the technical back-room staff, peopled by expert coaches, who win matches from the bench.”