By KATE OBODO
Former Super Eagles assistant coach Joe Erico, has advised newly appointed Super Eagles boss Stephen Keshi not to be high- handed when dealing with his players and should exhibit good leadership qualities if he must succeed.

Erico dropped this advice in a telephone chat with Saturday Vanguard Sports shortly after the pronouncement of the former Togo and Mali coach as Eagles coach. According to him,”I have always said that coaching is never our problem. Our problem has been development. We need to develop our football by going back to the grass-roots and embark on reviving School sports”.

He continued, “ I still maintain my stand, any coach that is coming to coach our national team is as good as any other that have been there. So I do not have any problem with that. Even if we employ José Mourinho and Alex Ferguson with same structure in our football they will still fail.

“We must go back to the basics. Clemens Westerof only succeeded because he had good players then and most of them were from the grass-roots. We should also improve our league if we are to make it.”

“Keshi should stay focused and do the right thing and also satisfy his conscience and not to please everybody, because you will always get it wrong if you try to please everybody.”

“Lastly, he should be a mirror to his players especially his senior players in the national team so as not to have problems with them. He should always present himself to the players as a leader not a boss,” Erico added.