How criticism helped Keshi...

Criticism started from the time he was dropped in favour of Samson Siasia as Nigerian national team coach, he remained unperturbed despite possessing greater credentials than the former; but Siasia lasted only for a short period after an unsuccessful campaign judged by non qualification to 2012 AFCON giving way for the emergence of the 'big boss' Stephen keshi as Super Eagles coach and the criticism continued...

Stephen Keshi's supposed attitude when he captained the Super Eagles was part of the debate on how he will fare as the head coach of Nigerian national team, some school of thoughts believed he will be a failure having led a faction of the successful '94 AFCON winning team and that he would also fail to form a peaceful team beign a biased person..I do not agree.

Amidst the chaos left by Siasia  with some players like Osaze, Mikel, Enyema and co, beign labelled as rebels who ensured that he (Siasia) did not succeed by being unmanageable and haughty;
the football governing body NFF NFA or the Sports ministry (whoever is in charge ) that waded into the disciplinary crises that rocked AFCON 2012 last qualification match against Guinea by demanding personal apologies from the so called disobedient players, gave Keshi the same Semi finals target as a criteria for retaining his job as coach...


After a successful qualification for the 2013 AFCON, Keshi did not help matters when he dropped notable names from his squad, Martins, kalu Uche, & Odewingie who took to twitter to show his displeasure...(is he still laughing the team?). The mockery and criticism heated up and calls were made for Keshi to explain his decision for his selections.....he tried to give reasons for his decisions but majority of soccer loving Nigerians saw it as mere excuses..(has he justified his reasons?)

Moreover, the results of the two group matches worsened the issue but in my opinion helped Keshi to work hard and improve his team's tactics which shocked every pundit when the Super eagles defeated the ''golden generation'' of Ivory coast team 2-1 in the quarter final...skepticism greeted the mighty win from the press who felt that Mali's match  would show that the previous win was a fluke....fortunately for Keshi his team defiled all that and went on to humiliate the Malian team with a thumping 4-1 victory.

Who is still criticizing Keshi, his selection of home based players and tactics?..the 'Big Boss' is ready to surprise Nigerians the more by creating history as the first Nigerian to win the trophy as a player and as a coach!...