Pressure mounts on New NFF president to dismiss Waldrum after Falcons 5th loss

Tremendous Falcon coach, Randy Waldrum, has come underneath strain following his aspect current 2-0 defeat away to Japan in Nadeshiko on Thursday.

Mina Tanaka scored twice inside a four-minute second half span when the Falcons misplaced all self-discipline at hand the 2011 world champions victory. It might have been extra, with goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie incomes her place with a number of saves.

The defeat was his aspect’s fifth in a row and the 9 time Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations champions have let in 10 objectives scoring two objectives.

Regardless of guiding the Falcons to a fourth place end on the current Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations match in Morocco, Waldrum, 66, is more and more underneath strain to maintain his job forward of the 2023 World Cup.

Angered by the group’s poor run of outcomes – their worst ever, followers of the group additionally took to social media to ask the American to give up his function or get axed.

Nurudeen Obalola wrote, “The Tremendous Falcons have now misplaced 5 straight matches since their WAFCON win over Cameroon in July. Shouldn’t we be very nervous? What’s Waldrum doing?

@ojobabatundeiso additionally tasked the Nigerian Soccer Federation to exchange the American with an indigenous coach.

“So the Falcons misplaced to Japan within the pleasant 2-0. Randy Waldrum will not be an excellent coach. The NFF ought to simply retrace their step and convey again indigenous coaches. These white coaches are killing our soccer.”

Chidi Ezeani on his half made a passionate attraction to the brand new NFF president, Ibrahim Gusau to exchange Waldrum.

“To the NFF new Boss Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, one of the crucial necessary factors of name is to alleviate Waldrum of his place as Head coach of the Tremendous Falcons. Waldrum has turned our best-performing nationwide group right into a disjointed group of abilities missing any route.

“We have now watched the Falcons retrogress drastically underneath his tutelage. We have now an excessive amount of expertise to be simply counted as contributors on the subsequent World Cup.”

@jiiresjewel additionally added some previous guards be dropped from the squad, “The Falcons nonetheless have an extended technique to go on the World stage. These pleasant video games are good for the group however I really feel some gamers ought to be let go from the squad.”

Nonetheless, Waldrum insists that the defeat is proof of progress.

“Our video games with Canada and the USA, (and Japan) have confirmed that we will play with the easiest on the earth. It’s simply getting the gamers to purchase in and consider,” the American informed ESPN.

He was additionally fast to level to mitigating circumstances previous to the defeat.

“We needed to modify the road up attributable to the truth that so many gamers got here in late.

“I don’t put a variety of weight by what everyone exterior says or the outcomes of some video games the place we all know half of these video games we’ve got not had our full group collectively,” he informed ESPN.

We’re teaching the gamers that we’ve got and I’m pleased with their growth and I believe the followers might be pleased with their efficiency on the World Cup.”

“Folks speak concerning the group qualifying with ease for the World Cup in earlier years.

“Ladies’s soccer was in a unique place then. What you might be seeing now within the final two World Cup cycles is that the sport has grown and developed in Africa prefer it has in the remainder of the world.

“You might be seeing international locations like South Africa and Morocco placing a variety of sources into ladies’s soccer and we’ve got to watch out as a rustic to not count on to qualify and win the Cup of Nations simply because we’re Nigeria.

“Even within the final match, you superior to the ultimate and the championship by two video games on penalty kicks. It’s not prefer it was a dominant efficiency in 2018.”