Coach Egbo; The first African coach to lead a European team to a league title and qualification for UEFA Champions League .

ByFrancis Chidera

 

The coach of KF Tirana in Albania, Ndubuisi Egbo, a Nigerian, has become the first African coach to lead a European team to a league title and qualification for UEFA Champions League after beating Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 in the first qualifying round.

Coach Egbo
Coach Egbo

This came after the team was almost relegated last season before the appointment of Egbo, who became coach in late 2019 and had been leading his team to greatness ever since he was appointed. Coach Egbo himself played for the club as a goalkeeper, and in 2014, he became the goalkeeper trainer and assistant coach.

He had been offered the head coach position numerous times, but he declined each time because he wanted to gain more experience. Finally,

Egbo was asked again to fill in on a three-game basis. His first game was a derby against rival Partizani, a team KF Tirana had not beaten in six because if the usual reports, people expected that Tirana to lose substantially. But Egbo’s tactic was to spark the “winning mentality” again. And that’s what happened. The team recorded a historic 2-1 win and won the other two games under Egbo.

The club asked Egbo to stay on, and he agreed. Working with the team day in and day out both physically and mentally, because football is more than just being on the pitch, Egbo led the team to an astounding 16-game unbeaten record.

Of course, there will always be naysayers. People have attacked Egbo’s validity as a coach and have tried to diminish his success. But that has not gotten him down. Through it, all Ndubuisi Egbo has persevered and shown who he is as a coach and person.

Egbo now looks forward to the UEFA Champions League, with Tirana competing to make it to the group stages. Hopes are high for everyone involved.

“I hope this achievement isn’t only for me, but it will help other African coaches to be given opportunities to showcase what they can do and to be an encouragement to push them to do more for themselves,”

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