{"id":3440,"date":"2013-05-10T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/keshi-to-pay-assistant-coach\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T10:26:50","slug":"keshi-to-pay-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/keshi-to-pay-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Keshi to pay assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p>Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, has opted to pay his Togolese assistant Valere Houandinou, who was affected by a backroom shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>Valere, who also worked with Keshi to qualify Togo to the 2006 World Cup, was laid off by a \u201cbroke\u201d Nigeria Football Federation recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keshi has decided to shoulder the burden of paying Valere&#8217;s salary after the NFF said it was running low on funds to carry the huge wage bill of the Super Eagles,&#8221; Keshi&#8217;s brother and manager Emmanuel Keshi told MTNFootball.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big boss decided to support the NFF at this time because the federation\u2019s president Aminu Maigari is a good man who has been very sincere and supportive in ensuring that the Eagles succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As part of the efforts towards moving forward, Keshi has resolved to use his goodwill for the NFF, remember President Goodluck Jonathan gave him a blank cheque upon his return from South Africa, Keshi intends to cash that cheque now by appealing to the President to support the NFF.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would agree with me that the burden on the NFF is huge, the U-17, U-20 and the Super Eagles are all preparing at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/> Posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeriannewspapers.disnaija.com\/\">Nigerian Newspapers. <\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" rel=\"external nofollow\">DisNaija.Com<\/a> network.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  The Nation Newspaper<\/p>\n<p><b>DisNaija.Com<\/b> publishes regular posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Nigeria News,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-newspapers.disnaija.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Nigerian Newspapers,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/online-nigeria.disnaija.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Online Nigeria Gist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/nigeriannewspapers.disnaija.com\/nation\/keshi-to-pay-assistant-coach\/\">Nigerian Newspapers<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\" data-size=\"large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Dis_Naija<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Your Opinion Counts. 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