Jose Peseiro was just the latest coach to find managing Nigeria an almost impossible task, writes Osasu Obayiuwana

WITH the distinguished record of coaching Nigeria’s Super Eagles to every Africa Cup of Nations medal available – silver in 1990, bronze in 1992 and the gold medal and trophy in 1994 – the Dutchman Clemens Westerhof, nearly 84, knows a thing or two about what it takes to manage the national team in Africa’s most populous country.
“A manager with no backbone and an aversion for conflict cannot work as coach of the national team… On my back, I had to have the skin of an elephant...