Sunday Oliseh during his presentation as Nigeria coach – Olamikan Gbemiga / AP / SIPA

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    • 02/26/2016 at 12:18
    • updated

Sunday Oliseh, 41, resigned Friday from his post as coach of the Nigerian football team, motivating “violations in his contract” and “a lack of support “of his federation, he announced on social networks.

” because of violations in the contract, the lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits for my players my assistant and myself, I resigned from the post of Super Eagles coach, “said the former Nigerian international on his Twitter account.

the announcement comes as Nigeria, triple winner of the African Cup plays its qualification for CAN 2017 against Egypt, leader of the group G, in a crucial match on March 25.

the winner of the CAN-1994, complained that he had not been paid for four months, also did not like the dismissal of his assistant Tijani Babangida, and rumors of contacts between the Nigerian federation and Herve Renard, who joined from Morocco.

Named replacement coach Stephen Keshi in July 2015, Oliseh has lost only two games in 14 games with the Super Eagles.

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