The Federal Government has said that it cannot afford hiring a foreign coach for the Super Eagles.
Addressing State House correspondents yesterday, Sports Minister Solomon Dalung said unlike indigenous coaches, a foreign coach would not tolerate non-payment of salaries.
According to him, although the selection of coaches is handled by the technical team, his ministry has a role in guiding what is best for the country.
"I've always maintained that if we cannot pay indigenous coaches, we still owe them some months of salaries, some of them have even died without those salaries, do we still go and look for a foreign coach and will he be able to tolerate us without salaries for some time, also that we may also be paying him in hard currency? So, it's a fundamental contradiction to swallow easily," he said.
The minister said Nigerian indigenous coaches had always recorded poor performance in football because they had not been able to grow above parochial sentiments.