Ex-Everton striker Daniel Amokachi has signed on as coach of Second Division Oulu club JS Hercules. It’s quite a coup for the amateur Oulu side but Amokachi says clubs higher up are reluctant to hire African coaches.
Former Everton striker, Olympic gold medal winner and ex-Nigeria coach Daniel Amokachi is to coach Second Division team JS Hercules, in the northern city of Oulu, in 2016. Amokachi is also planning to make a 52-episode mobile TV series for an African telecoms firm, in which he’ll explore the challenges faced by an African coach 200km south of the Arctic circle.
"I’ve coached at two World Cups, three African Cups of Nations, and the Confederations Cup," said Amokachi, who took his coaching licence exams in the Netherlands before becoming an assistant coach for Nigeria from 2008 to 2014 and caretaker manager in 2014 and 2015.
"Even so, getting to coach a second division team in Europe is probably the best coaching opportunity I could get. There aren’t many of us Africans coaching in Finland. So this is a great opportunity."
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