An official of the Nigeria Football Federation has revealed to Completesports.com that Super Eagles gaffer, Jose Peseiro, currently ranks among the highest-paid coaches in Africa and the burden is heavy on the football ruling body.
The Portuguese-born coach, 63, who is on 70.000 US dollars monthly salary, earns higher than Walid Regragui, the coach who made history for Africa by leading Morocco to the semifinals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The Moroccan-born coach earns 60,000 USD monthly.
“The fat salary of the coach who was hired as a replacement for Austin Eguavoen who was relieved of the job following the inability of the Super Eagles to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar, is a heavy burden on the Federation and we are concerned over his performance since he took over,” a chieftain of the NFF divulged to Completesports.com.
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“The NFF made enquires about what other federations pay their respective national team coaches and it was discovered that only a couple of national team coaches in Africa earn more salaries than our own Peseiro. How the Portuguese coach was contracted with too many privileges is disturbing and we may have to revisit the contract.
“We may have to sit down with Peseiro and talk over the salary issues after our last AFCON qualifying match against Sao Tome and Principe in September. We may also look at other options ahead of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in November.”
Peseiro has already led the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations slated for Cote D’Ivoire in January 2024 with a match to spare. but the team’s performance fell short of the expectations of Nigerians
Only Egypt national team coach Rui Victoria, on 200,000 USD monthly, and perhaps the Tunisian Coach, Jalel Kadri, earns more than Peseiro
By Richard Jideaka, Abuja
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GENERAL ROAR had the BEST RECORD in AFRICA yet HIS SALARY was SLASHED by HALF and PAID in NAIRA but this MAN is having the WORST RECORD with the SE in HISTORY and yet HE is among the HIGHEST PAID..
HIGHEST PAID BAWO!
Abeg make una SLASH him SALARY joor!
Just 4 WINS,(even the WINS came against CHEAP ASS TEAMS) 6 LOSSES
LOST all 5 FRIENDLIES…
Yes ooo my brother but may than pay am he money
Rui Carlos Pinho da Vitória is a very good coach and highly technical and he is doing so well with Egypt. I wonder where the NFF brought Pesiero from? With the kind of football he plays and the lossess also, it will be difficult for him to win the AFCON. NFF should be please do away with this man before it’s too late.
The illiterates at NFF knew the salary was high, that it would not be paid, yet they hired Peseiro. Brands Nigeria as a 419 nation!
Were you guys forced to pay him that amount? Was it not an agreement? Abeg come off it and stop disgracing yourself.
God’s own way of punishing the NFF and their evil bunch of co-conspirators…..LMAOoo.
Now they are paying double for half the quality of results, after back to back failures and massive loss of revenue…..LMAoo.
They should go and strangulate Sunday Dare and his minnions till they cough out the $70k required to pay this their “better coach” every month.
Honestly speaking, in as much as I will always remain grateful to Rohr, I still won’t condemn Peseiro as a bad coach; a bad start, yes might elucidate incompetence but yet might be some blurred judgement.
Westerhof had a bad start but after 5 years, took Nigeria’s football to a most enviable heights. But how did that happen? He got massive support from the top.
LET NFF GIVE PESEIRO ALL THE SUPPORT AND FREE HAND TO MANAGE SE AND WAIT TO SEE THAT HE FAILS BEFORE WE JUDGE HOW BAD HE IS, otherwise calling him a bad coach because of few friendlies marred by influenced players selection as well as unavailability of others is TO me an over judgement more like using a sledge hammer to kill a fly.
Fans must understand, that the Nigerian toxic environment is not what all the so called top managers will wanna soil themselves with. We should just let Peseiro be and see what comes out after next year AFCON.
Exactly, you don’t use friendly games to judge a coach’s performance. Nigeria would have beaten Algeria in last year’s friendly game, but referee robbed us. Peseiro may not be the best, but let’s give him a chance
Good point to be noted as Yoruba adage says igi yi koda ayo ninu ina tohun koda ayo ninu ina it’s will not allow soup to be done pls let him take our team to nation cup after that we can judge