Newly appointed assistant coach of the senior national team of Nigeria George Finidi appears to be a fan of Genk of Belgium forward Paul Onuachu.
Finidi was appointed as part of the backroom staff of a yet to be appointed foreign technical adviser who will be the head of the technical crew as they aim to pick a ticket to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire.
The coach of Enyimba has in the past given his opinion on the players of the Super Eagles and also the way the team plays to the strength of individual players during the era of former technical adviser Gernot Rohr.
One player he specifically mentioned was Paul Onuachu who is a feared forward in the Belgium top division but hasn’t lived up to expectations in a Super Eagles shirt. Finidi believes it’s down to the kind of coaching he is getting at national team level.
“In the case of Paul Onuachu, who was snubbed, if you want a player to perform, you set up your formation in a way to make him comfortable. He has struggled largely because of poor coaching”, he said in March 2021 while assessing the call ups of Rohr for an AFCON qualifiers.
He will now have the honour of working with the lanky forward if he is included in the list of players for the qualifiers game against Sierra Leone in June.
