Winning World Cup will make Keshi richest coach alive – Ex-Sports Minister

Mohammed spoke exclusively to the Sunday Trust in reaction to the recent MailSports review which revealed the salaries of all the national team coaches participating at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil.“in my opinion, I don’t think that review means Keshi isn’t appreciated. The pride he gets by serving his fatherland is what money […]

Mohammed spoke exclusively to the Sunday Trust in reaction to the recent MailSports review which revealed the salaries of all the national team coaches participating at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
“in my opinion, I don’t think that review means Keshi isn’t appreciated. The pride he gets by serving his fatherland is what money cannot buy and i want to assure you that if Stephen Keshi wins the World Cup he’ll be the richest coach in the world because apart from government we have many rich individuals that are ready to reward him handsomely. You saw what happened after the African Nations Cup triumph, he got millions, plots of land in Abuja, houses in many states, so it’s not by salary alone.”
Keshi, alongside his Ghanaian counterpart James Kwesi Appiah, fellow Group F opponent Bosnia’s Safet Susic, Mexico’s Miguel Herrera and Croatia’s Niko Kovac are the least paid bosses of all the 32 countries participating at the FIFA World Cup presently going on in Brazil.
According to a MailSport review of what the managers of the World Cup nations earn per annum published recently, Keshi, who is on N60 million a year is 28th on the list, a place below Cameroun’s Volker Finke who pockets N61 million and not too far from West African neighbours Ghana whose manager is placed 31st and earns N39 million a year.
Russia’s Coach Fabio Capello tops the list with an astonishing N1.8 billion yearly salary which dwarfs the N900 million received by second placed English Manager Roy Hodgson who is modestly paid considering England’s FA’s extravagant payments to recent managers.
The two highest paid African managers are Ivory Coast’s Sabri Lamouchi, a Frenchman with a Tunisian heritage, who earns N162 million, a salary that is most extreme compared to the average wage in his country of employment and Algeria’s Vahid Halihodzic who pockets N157 million per annum
It was observed in the report that the five lowest-paid managers are all nationals of their own countries and in order of smallest pay, they are Miguel Herrera of Mexico, James Kwesi Appiah of Ghana, Niko Kovac of Croatia, Safet Susic of Bosnia and Stephen Keshi of Nigeria.
The review also pointed out that the most common nationality of managers at the World Cup are German, with Germans in charge of Switzerland (Hitzfeld), Germany (Low), USA (Klinsmann) and Cameroon (Volker Finke).There are also three Italians (in charge of Russia, Italy and Japan), three Argentineans (in charge of Chile, Colombia, Argentina), three Portuguese (in charge of Portugal, Iran and Greece) and three Colombians, although none of them in charge of Colombia (with Honduras, Ecuador, Costa Rica).
Eighteen of the 32 nations are managed by coaches from their own country and 14 by foreigners.