Super Eagles’ first assistant coach, Daniel Amokachi popularly known as the Da Bull has told SportingLife that he wasn’t aware of any alleged plot or move to remove him from his position in the team.
Amokachi, who is media shy when quizzed on the news going round that he would be replaced by another coach in the new dispensation of Stephen Keshi’s re-appointment, said he wasn’t ready to comment on the issue because he was quite sure that his employers – the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) who has the power to hire and fire any national coach would have informed him of his removal if the story going round was true.
He confessed that he engaged in this small chat with the SportingLife Correspondent based on the respect he has for him because he has since made up his mind not to talk about the matter since he has not been officially communicated on the issue.
“Firstly I want to say that I am talking to you here as a friend if not I won’t even talk at all. As a matter of fact on the issue you are inquiring about it is only my employers, the Nigeria Football Federation that can answer that because they have the power to sack me since they are the ones that hired me in the first place.
“So as I speak with you I have not gotten any information as regards that from the NFF.
I only read like others on the pages of newspapers that Amokachi would be replaced or Amokachi has been replaced. So I don’t want to react on rumours.
I know I have put in my all in this job and it is a privilege serving the nation among many other qualified coaches.
“The job of coaching is about hiring and firing, praising when the going is good and condemnation when the going gets rough. So whatever happens I will take it as an act of God and I will move on from there”, Amokachi told SportingLife at the weekend.
