The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday approved the recommendation of its Technical and Development Sub-Committee for the Federation’s Technical Director, Coach Augustine Eguavoen to continue in his role as Head Coach of the Super Eagles.
Eguavoen will lead the Super Eagles to the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Libya next month.
The 58-year-old, in temporary charge of the squad he had led three times previously, steered the three-time African champions to a 3-0 defeat of Benin Republic and scoreless draw with Rwanda in Matchdays one and two earlier this month.
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Eguavoen will also continue working with current technical crew that also includes Fidelis Ilechukwu, Daniel Ogunmodede, Olatunji Baruwa and Tomaz Zorec.
They will also take charge of the Super Eagles B team for the qualifying campaign for next year’s African Nations Championship, otherwise known as CHAN.
The Super Eagles will host the Mediterranean Knights at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo on Friday, October 11.
They will take on the North Africans in Benina four days later.
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Good decision by the NFF!
Would be an even better decision if you confirm him permanently!!
“The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday approved the recommendation of its Technical and Development Sub-Committee for the Federation’s Technical Director, Coach Augustine Eguavoen to continue in his role as Head Coach of the Super Eagles.”
Who heads the committee? NFF, stop pulling the wool over our eyes. I hope you bite the bullet too when, not if, this plan backfires. Still thinking of stop-gap measures for our senior national teams at this time? Are you spending your father’s money to employ a substantive coach for Eagles?
How much do you want to embezzle that you refuse to think long term? What if AFCON 2025 does not hold in 2025? Can you trust local coaches for world cup qualifiers that are now do or die affair with smart opposition coaches that will rather shut up shop in the return legs and test our mettle to unlock them?
No forward thinking. Which grade A friendlies can our local coaches really think of arranging to test against playing patterns of our world cup qualifiers foes? Can they read matches? Oh, we should expect we were already out by match day 4 so excuse galore will roll in.
Anyway, na una sabi
Please the people in the nff should learn from other countries who are employing qualified coaches for their national teams.
NFF is the coach of Nigeria. Nigeria I hail thee indeed!!!
It is better he returns to the technical director job because it is secure. If he losses two matches now they will put a Mallam as the technical director.
We have missed the opportunity for the new.coach to use the AFCONQ to understand his boys prior to the world cup resumption next year. A wasted gamble. Eguavoen should listen to Taribos advise because he normally assembles the best squad ever. Siasia will have one or two dodgy players in his team though very good coach.
Is Mallam not better than Aboki Zubairu??? Nigeria is becoming Fulani Nation or Muslim nation under Batman.