They don't believe in black coaches or give us a chance - Samson Siasia blasts foreign clubs
Samson Siasia has hit out at the current European recruitment system
where black coaches are not given a chance to show their coaching
capabilities even after getting the highest footballing and coaching
education.
Siasia, a former Nantes & Lokeren defender got his coaching badges
in Belgium and the United States but doesn't believe the European
football system favours black coaches.
“I want to believe that the reasons there are not many black coaches
working in Europe are because the European clubs hardly give us a chance
and they do not believe in us,” said the coach, who himself was
severally linked with jobs abroad.
“Many of us have not only played at the highest level in Europe, but
have excelled, but even when we get our coaching badges there, these
clubs still don’t give us the break we need to show what we can do
outside the pitch.
We have many ex-African players with French nationality, but I can only
recall (Claude) Makalele who was at Bastia and that was it. Where is
John Barnes with all he achieved at Liverpool and even though he grew up
in England and played for that country? He was not given much of a
chance there as a coach. Where is another black coach, Chris Houghton?
Where is he now? Many of us have good records as players and then
coaches, but because the European clubs do not believe in us, we end up
having to do something else. And even where they give us a chance, they
are quick to dispense with us. Something is really not right, but I
don’t want to put any name to it.”
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