Coaching Job Not Good For Me — Yobo
Former Super Eagles captain Joseph Yobo is confident that the team can still qualify for the 2026 World Cup despite their poor start in the qualifiers.
The three-time Nations Cup champions currently occupy the fourth position following a disastrous start to the qualifiers with seven points from six matches.
It would be recalled that the Super Eagles failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Saudi Arabia after losing out to Ghana in the playoffs.
Yobo has urged Nigerians to get behind the team ahead of the last four matches.
He said: “Tough space, but there is a possibility, we have been in that space before; for this team, they should know how to grind out results.
“They need to play as a group united and ensure that they get the result needed, it doesn’t mean we have to play well, getting a win is the most important thing.
“If we drop any point from the group again, then we are out of the race.”
The former Everton defender believes the team is blessed with quality players that can help turn the tide around.
Yobo said, “I believe in this set of players because I have been an Assistant Coach with them and I know what they can do.
“Sometimes these types of circumstances wake us up, maybe we play for a couple of more games,”
Yobo also revealed that he is unsure of his coaching plans in the future.
He concluded: “I have tried coaching, but not too good an experience.
“I have played, I have been the leader and the captain of the team for my club. I don’t really think I am ready for it because coaching has to be enticing before you get into it.
“I am a vocal person, and I am also close to all the coaches I have interacted with before, so sometimes it is something I don’t want to say.
“The football world should make coaching more enticing so that the players who are retired will want to come back and coach, but we are not there yet.
“Until they start bringing the senior players back to the league.
“The former players should be part and make them have the feelings that they can coach. Maybe it will get better.”
Up next for Nigeria in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers is a clash against Rwanda, and South Africa in September.
Yobo made his Super Eagles debut against Zambia in 2001 in a World Cup qualifiers encounter before going on to captain the team, while making a record 101 appearances.
He represented the Super Eagles at three FIFA World Cups, and six Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.
Coaching Job Not Good For Me — Yobo is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
