Amodu was reassigned to the Super Eagles Team B, comprising home-based players, after winning a bronze medal at the Angola 2010 Africa Nations Cup. In a report posted on MTNFootball.com, Amodu, who was replaced by Swede Lars Lagerback, is asking for N135 million for the remaining part of his contract, which was to have ended in July.
He is also asking for another N165 million as bonus for qualifying Nigeria to the 2010 World Cup. He has already taken his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). Ironically, Amodu also qualified the Super Eagles to the 2002 World Cup but was axed after a squabble with the country's top officials, thereby allowing Adeboye Onigbinde to lead Nigeria to the World Cup.
The NFF has received notice of the litigation from Amodu's lawyers but the officials said the coach has no case against them. NFF President Sani Lulu's special adviser, Tunde Aderibigbe, said the federation's contract with Amodu was still intact, insisting that there is no loophole that can be exploited by the coach's lawyer.
"It was just a notice and we are responding to it. We have not defaulted in terms of an agreement between employer and client," he said. "We are still keeping to our contract. Amodu was not sacked. He was only deployed from Super Eagles team A to team B, which means he still has his job.
"We have consulted our lawyer and he is already working on our case. Berti Vogts did the same and we argued our case."
Aderibigbe disclosed: "In Vogts' case, the CAS listened to us before we were acquitted by the Arbitration for Sports and FIFA. There is nothing to be worried about Amodu taking us to Court of Arbitration."
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