{"id":9176,"date":"2013-02-05T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=9176"},"modified":"2013-02-05T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:01:58","slug":"afcon-if-nigeria-wins-i-may-resign-says-keshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/afcon-if-nigeria-wins-i-may-resign-says-keshi\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON: Keshi Threatens To Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has said that he could pack his bags and resign from office if his team wins the ongoing African Cup of Nations in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Keshi said this at a press conference in South Africa while reacting to a question on whether he would still be with the team after the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The most important thing is what I\u2019m doing. If back home they don\u2019t like what I\u2019m doing well you can\u2019t force someone to love you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I win the cup I may pack and leave, I\u2019m a professional coach, Nigeria is where my heart is and if there\u2019s any more offer out there\u2026.,\u201d Keshi said.<\/p>\n<p>The coach, who won the Nations Cup as the captain of the Nigerian team at Tunisia 94, also said he has no problem working under a good foreign coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m never against a white coach in Africa, but do not bring a mediocre coach from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you bring a good coach, I can learn from him. We have good African players but we didn\u2019t give them opportunities because they\u2019re black dude,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Keshi has led the Super Eagles to the semi-finals of the ongoing African Cup of Nations against expectations of a lot of Nigerians; and defeated tournament favourites and star\u2014studded Cote d\u2019 Ivoire in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>He said Nigeria is not intimidated by players like Seidou Keita and Mamadou Diarra in Mali as the match would be decided on the field of play.<\/p>\n<p>The coach said he enjoyed his time at Mali and wouldn\u2019t mind returning there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a place that I love, they\u2019re wonderful people and if there\u2019s a chance I will go back there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Premium Times<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has said that he could pack his bags and resign from office if his team wins the ongoing African Cup of Nations in South&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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