Former Super Eagles World Cup goalkeeper Ike Shorunmu remains unfazed about his continued exclusion from national team duties as a keeper’s trainer.
The Nigeria Football Federation NFF had announced Shorunmu and Enyimba’s manager Finidi George as assistants to current coach of the Eagles, Jose Paseiro.
The NFF subsequently came up with a rotational policy for Paseiro’s local assistants which precluded Shorunmu and George from inclusion in the coaching crew to the AFCON 2023 qualifying double header against Guinea Bissau last March.
The former Eagles winger Finidi has since returned to the team for this weekend’s AFCON qualifier against Sierra Leone while Shorunmu is out of it.
However Shorunmu still insists that a proper contract will have to be hammered out between him and the NFF before he returns to the team:
“How can one be working without any contract?
“Since May last year I haven’t been paid a dime in bonuses and allowances and you want me to continue like that?”
Despite his continued exclusion from Nigeria’s senior national team Ike is looking forward to bigger things in the coaching profession.
“We’ve got something in the pipeline regarding my coaching career.
“It could be a foreign deal or a local one, be rest assured that whenever everything is concretised, you will hear it.”
As Super Eagles jet out tomorrow to Liberia to play the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone, Shorunmu’s slot in the squad has been taken up by the Under 20 team Flying Eagles goalkeepers’ trainer, Olatunji Baruwa.
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