Nigerian football will bounce back - Hamilton

FORMER Nigerian coach, Paul Hamilton has described the current slide being experienced by the nation's football as temporary set back.Hamilton's view comes on the heels of the Dream Team's failure to pick an Olympic Games ticket at the maiden CAF U-23 Championship in Morocco.The former Nigerian international told SuperSport.com that the nation should take a cue from other countries who have gone through the tough time being experienced now."It's quite unfortunate and sad that we failed again to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics men football event."We have to start off again. Such things have happened to other countries and they later came back stronger. I see our situation as a passing phase."There was a time we were labelled Papa Eagles during the late coach Chris Udemezue's tenure."Someone else took over and we moved from Papa Eagles to Super Eagles."What we are experiencing is part of history, it will get to a point where we will start to laugh again once we are able to learn and put a solid structure in place," he said.The one-time attacker said coach Austin Eguavoen should brace up for the consequence of his failure to deliver the Olympic ticket."Coaches are hired and fired based on performance, it is a very simple thing."If they retain him, fine; if not, let him look for work elsewhere possibly at the club level," he said.
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