Keshi vows to quit if...

• Can’t promise victory in Monrovia • Says no pressure on President Jonathan’s call to beat Liberia

Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has vowed to quit his job if he fails to beat Liberia and book a ticket to the finals of the 2013 Africa Nations Cup slated for South Africa.
The Nigerian senior national team has a two legged date with the Lone Star of Liberia beginning from this Saturday which would decide the eventual team that would participate in the 2013 ANC finals and the former Togo and Mali national team coach has vowed to do all his possible best with the support of his players, backroom staff and soccer loving Nigerians to make it possible for the Eagles to be among the teams in South Africa come January 2013.
He, however, declared that if situation demands quitting the job he won’t hesitate to do so. When asked if the game turns other way round in the two legged affair against the Lone Star of Liberia that would he be thinking of resigning, Keshi replied, “If it gets to that point why not?”.
He also said in a game of this magnitude losing an away match can happen. “It happens because it is a game, but the respite is that the team has another chance of turning the table when they (Eagles) play on home front in Nigeria.”
Keshi was also very careful in making promises of victory against Liberia in Monrovia saying that making such pronouncement would be very difficult  even for the arguably the best coach in the world, Jose Mourinho.
“I don’t think there is any coach in the world that will come out and say yes I would win outright. I don’t think there is any, not even Jose Mourinho (of Real Madrid, Spain). So all I can tell you is that we are going out there to perform,” he observed.
On the call by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan charging the team to beat Lone Star in Monrovia on Saturday, the former Mali Coach said it was a normal call which should not put any undue pressure on the team.
“There is no pressure, it is about motivating the team. The Director General of National Sports Commission (NSC) Chief Patrick Ekeji was in our hotel camp to also motivate the team. So it is a good sign to see our big Ogas in our camp, it is good,” the Eagles gaffer told SportingLife yesterday.