Samson Siasia says he is done with Nigeria

Coach Samson Siasia who led the Nigerian Olympic football team to win Nigeria’s only medal, at the just concluded Olympics in Brazil, has said he is done with Nigeria. Siasia led the team to the Olympics despite being owed at least 5 months salary. In an interview with Vanguard, Siasia opened up about his "next step” :

"My next step is that I am done with Nigeria for now. You can’t keep going to a place where they don’t appreciate you. It does not worth it. Sometimes it is not about the money but the approach. They seem not to appreciate the sacrifices. I know how much I have sacrificed since the team began camping two years ago.

How can you keep going to people who don’t appreciate you? It does not make sense, so I am done for now. I have to go somewhere else where they will appreciate what I have done and what I can do and pay me the respect that I deserve. How can you keep toiling for five months without even your salary?

Nothing has changed in the last two years. It has been from bad to worse, so we must sit down and do something about the structure of Nigerian football and by extension sports in general. It doesn’t worth it to work with the people running sports now in Nigeria. They don’t have it and will not give what they don’t have. It feels bad.".