Keshi loses Burkina Faso job

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 Stephen Keshi

(Nigeria) Stephen Keshi, has lost bid to coach the Stallions of Burkina Faso.
Federation of Burkinabe Football, FBF, named 61-year-old German trainer, Gernot Rohr, as the new handler of their senior national football team.
Rohr replace Belgian Paul Put.
Keshi, who was alongside Serbian Milovan Rajevac, and Rohr were shortlisted for the Burkina Faso top coaching job earlier this month, however, said that FBF knew exactly what they wanted.
He meanwhile, said he has no regret losing the Burkina Faso jon.
"It’s their football and I believe that they know what they want; any name that comes up is what they want to have. Its just the same thing with Nigeria, whoever they want will take up the Super Eagles coaching job.
``It is well; I am not disturbed, anything that happens is the will of God,’’ Keshi said.
Keshi had coached Togo, Mali and the Nigerian national teams, while Rajevac and Rohr have coached the Ghanaian and Gabonese national teams.
The ``Big Boss’’ as Keshi is called by his fans, is expected to take up the Super Eagles coaching job on February  25 (today).
The Chairman, Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Amaju Pinnick, had on February 23, assured Nigerians that Keshi was expected to accept his new contract to coach the senior national team Wednesday.
He told journalists in Abuja that a draft of the new Super Eagles contract would be handed over to keshi between February 23 and 24.
That expectation never materialised as Keshi denied having any knowledge of his contract renewal or seeing the draft of the contract.
Keshi said nobody from the football house had approached or informed him about any contract renewal and so, wondered how he would take up a job he knew nothing about.
The NFA boss said the motive was for him (Keshi) to peruse the contract paper and get ready to assume duty on Wednesday February 25.
Keshi has been out of job since the expiration of his contract with the NFA after the 2014 World Cup.

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