Former Super Falcons coach, Godwin Izilien, has faulted the Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) move to hire retired Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh, as the senior national team coach.

His reason is that Oliseh has not handled any big team anywhere in the world since he became a coach. Izilien said that Super Eagles currently needs an exposed and intelligent tactician with a good track record, adding the federation should have advertised the job and allowed competent coaches to compete for the position.

The coach, who accused the federation of toeing the same line that saw former Super Eagles boss, Samson Siasia, hiring a foreign assistant, Simon Kalika, during his tenure, said the current experiment with Oliseh would only lead to another failure.

Izilien said the NFF should have prepared the former Juventus of Italy player for the big time by grooming him through one of the cadet teams, adding that the current idea would not help the country’s quest to regain its eminence in football. “I wonder where the name of Oliseh emanated from after Keshi was sacked.

I think NFF is an organized body made up of experienced football administrators, but they got this one wrong. “Oliseh has never handled any known club or national team anywhere in the world to the best of my knowledge.

The only quality I know about him is that he was an intelligent player, who represented his teammates in the Super Eagles. I also know that he was a member of FIFA technical study group. But that is not enough reason for the NFF to give him the Super Eagles job.

“I don’t have anything against Oliseh, but I must say that the NFF are taking the wrong step in the manner they want to appoint a new coach for the Eagles. “For the federation to also allow him to get a foreign assistant is another ploy to pave way for the foreign coaches to share from the national cake.

Siasia worked with a foreign assistant before and the result we got is not qualifying for the 2012 Nations Cup. NFF should rescind this decision and advertise the Super Eagles coaching position; this is how it is done in other climes.”