BY JUDE OPARA, Abuja
A former coach of the Super Falcons, James Peters has blamed the Nigeria Football Federation for the failure of the team to qualify for the next round of the 2016 Olympic qualifying series.

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Peters who also blamed the team’s ouster by Equatorial Guinea on the inexperienced Christopher Danjuma-led technical crew said the team would have fared better if the NFF had allowed Coach Edwin Okon take the team through the qualifiers.

“He should have been left alone to take the team through the Olympic qualifiers despite the team’s not too impressive performance in Canada. They would have performed better against Equatorial Guinea,”Peters said.

Coach James Peters declared that one of the factors that worked against the team was the inexperience of the technical crew.
Peters told Sports Vanguard yesterday in Abuja that the team under the tutelage of Christopher Danjuma crumbled before their Equatorial Guinea counterparts because they lacked the capacity to motivate the players to bring out their best.

According to him while it is right for the young coaches to be given the responsibility to coach national teams, it is also reasonable for the NFF to attach to them some experienced coaches to give them background assistance.

“It is good to have experienced old coaches to back them up, not necessarily to sit on the bench but to help them do some spying for them and design a tactic that will assist the team. This is something we have done in the past.

“They should forget pettiness and tribalism because someone told me during the World Cup in Brazil to go to my state to work as if Abuja is his own state. We thank God we are now in the era of sincerity and change.”